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THINGS I DO FOR MONEY WARREN P SONODA GOES HOME TO HAMILTON

Eli and Nick Yaguchi, two Japanese Canadian cello-playing brothers from Hamilton, Ontario inadvertently steal a bag of money from a horrific crime scene. Trouble ensues when a Vancouver-based hit man, who turns out to be their estranged uncle Just Jimmy, shows up on the scene. One thing leads to another and the brothers have to save their father’s life, steal an eight-million-dollar painting and fight for their lives to get into a prestigious music conservatory. Along the way they discover that everyone has a price and that family never bails on family, no matter the cost. This is Things I Do for Money, the latest feature film from Hamilton-born director Warren P. Sonoda. The film, which premiered at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival, and is set for wide digital distribution in Canada as we go to press, is described as a humble, kinetic, darkly comedic, sometimes violent, small-yet-ambitious micro-budget crime/cello/caper movie with a Japanese Canadian cultural twist. The Bulletin spoke to Warren at his home in Toronto.

by John Endo Greenaway

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BULLETIN INTERVIEW

WARREN P SONODA Your hometown, Hamilton Ontario, plays itself in your new film, Things I Do for Money. Before we get into the film itself, tell me how your family ended up in that neck of woods. Well thank you first of all for this interview, I love The Bulletin, just recently saw your fantastic Hiro Kanagawa interview and I’m thrilled to be talking with you about Things I Do For Money. My mom and dad, Pat (née Yaguchi) and Roy Sonoda came to Hamilton after their internment in Greenwood and Bayfarm, BC respectively, along with their families, and met at Westdale high school in downtown Hamilton. My mom was the youngest of nine children – Shiggy, Susie, Mitzi, Buddy, Kay, Carol, Eileen and Jean, and my dad was the youngest of four – Mits, Judy and Sammy. I never met my grandfathers Nakaichi Yaguchi and Chuhai Sonoda, and only barely remember my grandmother Kinu (née Kono) Yaguchi and recollect a little bit more of Maki (née Yonehara) Sonoda from my childhood. I do remember Grandma Sonoda’s cooking though! And I loved going to see her because I got to eat, usually chazuke and whatever she had just made in her kitchen. My grandparents didn’t speak English, and my mom and dad’s Japanese is BC-slang-y at best, so I always wondered how they communicated with their mom and dad. But I guess that’s why big families are good, especially during the internment, when they would have to rely on each other for so many things. I myself am the youngest, with two older brothers, Ron and Bob Sonoda, whom I basically made this movie for.

Warren P Sonoda

Kevin Spencer (who starred in the touring company of Rent and was in the band Rhymes With Orange and The Misunderstood with Mary Beth Ancheta). In a lot of ways, Things I Do For Money is the extension of the little videos Jason, Kevin and our other friends made in High School called You Killed My Brother, which were just nonsensical homemade videos trying to pay tribute to Martin Scorsese, poorly (years later I would kick Scorsese out of the Guinness Book of World Records when my film Swearnet starring the Trailer Park Boys kicked Wolf of Wall Street out of top spot for Most Expletives In A Movie). But we had fun and in grade 11 I directed a Sugarless Chiclets campaign for J Walter Thompson Advertising (which starred a young Kathleen You failed Ryerson Film School. Twice. You’re also Robertson of Bates Motel, Northone of Canada’s most prolific directors, with elev- ern Rescue and 90210). en feature films under your belt, as well as iconic TV shows like Trailer Park Boys, This Hour Has 22 Then in grade 12 I did a show for Minutes, Murdoch Mysteries and a whole slew of CBC called Life: The Program music videos. You’re also the first person of colour where I directed the “teen segto be elected as National Directors Division Chair ments” which was just me videoof the Directors Guild of Canada. Tell me about taping my friends getting into trouyour introduction to film, and how you got your ca- ble all the time, which they then aired on national TV and got nomreer started. Okay, wow, well… It was really my two brothers, Ron inated for a Gemini Award. I reand Bob, who bought me a super-8 camera when I member filming Jason Jones putwas 10. In Mr. Allen’s grade 5 class at Fernwood Park ting a crib sheet on the back of his in Hamilton I made my first film called Escape From calculator and then getting him in Space – a 24-minute live-action/stop motion sci-fi film trouble for it after his math teacher which was basically my homage to Star Wars. I got saw the segment on the CBC. And my entire class to help make it, and after that, I was then eventually, in first year Ryerhooked. I’m not sure if I thought I had a clear trajec- son, I directed a music video for tory to film from where I was at in Hamilton, but Hill Kevin Spencer’s band The MisunPark High School’s drama class with teacher Bill Cook derstood called Serene that actualchanged everything for me. That’s where I met Ja- ly got light rotation on MuchMusic son Jones (from the Daily Show and The Detour) and and that really changed the course

of my filmmaking career and led to doing over 160 music videos in the 90s and 2000s. But really, my career started with my incredibly talented friends – I couldn’t have done any of this without being surrounded by innovators and creators at an early age (and even now), and being encouraged by my family, especially my brothers, to pursue filmmaking when it really wasn’t a realistic option for most Japanese Canadians in the late 80s/early 90s. But I’ve never really taken “no” as a final verdict for anything. Things I Do for Money is the first Canadian crime film to not only be written and directed by a Japanese Canadian filmmaker, but to star four Japanese Canadians, and to be sold to the US. That’s a lot of firsts. Is this the first time you’ve worked with a JC cast, and was it a conscious decision? So my 11th feature, Things I Do For Money, came out of doing some not-so-great film work while transitioning into some amazing television projects. As I got into my mid-career, it wasn’t lost on me that after ten feature films, I had never cast a Japanese Canadian actor in a leading role. That’s a terrible record to have while being on a pretty good run. And that’s all on me as a filmmaker – my fault alone – and I’m trying to make up the time. I think now, in hindsight, my reluctance to embrace or engage my “Japanese-ness” as a filmmaker or even as a person, is a very

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sansei-specific trait. The internment always seems to be the defining moment for many of us, even if we were born long after. The consequences of those racist and family-crushing policies during World War II are still being felt, generations later, even if the lasting effects seem subtle or subversively invisible.

innovators and artists. This country that we should have every reason to be skeptical of, every reason to have contempt for, allowed someone like me to keep making movies and tell stories; this country that I love, and want to have a hand in making better. So yes, the long answer is: Things I Do For Money was a very conscious, deliberate decision for me to reconnect with my long-neglected roots. I don’t think this is a unique sansei feeling, either. I think we all feel this, in very real ways, especially as my generation gets older.

After settling in Hamilton and starting a family, my mom and dad wanted to assimilate their children as quickly and as thoroughly as possible: we weren’t taught Japanese, we didn’t speak it in the house, except for some choice bad words (baka tada is used throughout Things I Do For Money as a tip-of-the-hat to my family’s use of Japanese), it’s not lost on me that Warren, Ronnie and Bobby are three of the most Western-y names you could go with, and outside of family, I didn’t have any close Japanese friends growing up (although thankfully, I do have so many fantas- Theodor and Maximilian Aoki, two real-life brothers are also retic cousins, aunts and uncles). al-life cellists who also wrote and I know it was all to protect us, so my brothers and I performed the original score, wouldn’t be bullied, picked on or be “different” – and have their own duo versaCello. maybe subconsciously, silently, they still had the imTheir father, Edward, plays the age of RCMP officers coming into their houses, concharacter Just Jimmy in the film. fiscating their homes and imprisoning their families. Edward’s father – the brothers’ I know they did, how could they not? But in rushing grandfather – was renowned Cato be as “Canadian” as possible, we were cut off nadian educator and scholar Ted from much of what makes our story so special. That Aoki. Ted’s brother, Harry Aoki, is a film like Things I Do For Money, about two yonsei, well known on the west coast as cello-playing brothers from Hamilton, Ontario, which a music pioneer. That’s a pretty plays itself in the film, even exists is a testament to good lineage. What’s your relamy parents and brothers giving me the love, encourtionship with the family? agement and every possible chance to succeed. It’s The incredible Max and Theo Aoki also a testament to Canada, as flawed and wondercame on my radar several years ful as it is, that it could split apart my family, imprison ago because my co-writer, Gary them, take all their property and give it away, send Nolan, who is also a teacher in the boys and men to labour camps in the BC interior, Hamilton, knew their mother Elyleaving the ones who remained and their children to sia, also a teacher. Gary relayed to keep things going, only to be released and dispersed me how talented these two brothEast of the Rockies afterwards, raise a family and imers were, maybe to make a music probably see them rise in our communities as leaders,

video with them or something. I checked out their versaCello youtube channel (go to Youtube and search versaCello) and was blown away by their ability, left a comment on their Counting Stars video, then never got back to them for two years (lol) as I got busy doing TV shows like Trailer Park Boys, Odd Squad, and 22 Minutes. At the same time, Gary and I had written over a dozen scripts together over the years, but none of them had ever been produced, and I was starting to feel bad about it – so in 2017, I told him, “let’s make a movie next year and not wait for permission to do it” – make it small so we didn’t have to wait or be declined by funding bodies and make it contained – one or two locations and four or five characters – so we could just go out and film it. But everything we were coming up with was horrible. Just garbage. Canada has a tendency to push its filmmakers working in the micro-budget world into doing “small” films (and, yes, some of them are PHENOMENAL) – but if I was going to do an 11th feature, I really wanted to swing for the fences, why do it otherwise? Our creative thoughts kept coming back to the Aoki boys, and we just really started thinking about centering a story around them as cello-playing brothers. “What if” they stole a bag of money? “What if” their family was tied up in a surreal criminal underworld

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in Hamilton, Ontario? This “What if” game continued until we came up with a story that had over 30 locations, 50+ speaking parts, six cello performances and five action scenes. Not small at all, but ambitious and genre-bending (a crime/cello/caper music-action movie) and the fact that the two leads, Max and Theo, were also yonsei, levelled-up my new commitment to explore my Japanese Canadian heritage. But there was only one problem – we had no idea if Max and Theo, a) could act, and b) would even want to be in a movie. So Gary and I quickly scheduled a meeting with them and Elysia to pitch our idea: give us your summer of 2018 (no small ask as they were both in McMaster University Engineering), and let’s go make a movie. I just told them, you have to audition first. They accepted the challenge with aplomb. I hope to include their audition on our DVD release later this year, because – and let’s keep in mind the context: they had never acted before in their lives – they were brilliant. Organic, truthful, charismatic and totally believable as brothers because they were exactly that. Max and Theo were cast on the spot as the stars and as a bonus to us, agreed to completely score the film themselves, also something they’ve never done before. I did previously ignore them for two years, but thankfully came back to them with a full feature film to make around their unique abilities and strengths.

You mention that Theo and Max were also the film’s composers and music is such a huge part of Things I Do For Money’s appeal. What was it like working with them on the music for Things I Do for Money? The boys were up-and-coming musicians in the Hamilton music scene before I even knew them, so making and creating music was already in their wheelhouse, but scoring a feature film is incredibly different than performing in front of an audience. Also, they only had a limited amount of time – a couple of months – to write completely new, original, standalone cello pieces for the film because they had to perform them within actual scenes (in moviemaking, you pre-record all the music and play it back on set so the performs look to be “in-sync” with what they’re playing). This was a herculean task because the entire climax of the film centers around a six-minute tour-de-force two-handed cello piece they created called Monument and my only request to them as the Director was, “Write something that cellists would say: that’s amazing.” They wrote, I think, a piece that will become a contemporary cello classic. It’s spectacular and certainly has been rewarded with accolades during our Film Festival run, winning two Special Jury prizes in the US and a Best Feature nomination in the UK. But it didn’t end there: working with veteran Music Supervisor Micheal Perlmutter and industry vanguard Producer Byron Kent Wong the Aokis beautifully cover Guns and Ammunition by July Talk and most notably, interpret the haunting, iconic Northern Pikes titular hit song Things I Do For Money for a spectacular pharmacy shootout scene and the end credits, where Pike’s lead singer Jay Semko actually re-recorded his vocals for our cello-inspired version in the film. I did a music video for Jay back in the late 90s, so it was really great of him to come on board and give our film, and Max and Theo, a chance

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Edward Aoki as Just Jimmy gets the drop on real-life son Max Aoki

to re-record his legendary song. Along with Michael Perlmutter’s ability to get us songs from not only The Northern Pikes and July Talk, but also The Arkells, Jane’s Party and Peacemaker, the film works because Max and Theo’s music, masterfully produced by Byron Kent Wong, intricately weaves all our disparate elements: crime, violence, coming-of-age love, ice-skating and bingo all into a cohesive whole. Their music elevates the story Gary and I wanted to tell. Things I Do For Money has been described as your most ambitious project to date. You’ve also called it your best film. How do you define ambitious? And what is it about the film that makes you so proud of it? I’m just so damn proud of the entire team: from Max and Theo and their entire family (not only Ed, who as you said stars in the film, but their mom Elysia was at every location helping out, letting us film in her house, making food for us!) to the camera crew led by groundbreaking Hamilton cinematographer Christoph Benfey, our masterful and talented editor Anna Catley, our entire cast and crew, many of whom had never made a feature film before, all rose to the challenge of making this in a compact 13-main-unit-days, two-pick-up-days schedule during the hottest summer Hamilton had ever seen in 2018. But it was the perseverance of our Producers Avi Federgreen (Federgreen Entertainment), Emily Andrews, Laura Nordin and my amazing wife Jen Pogue (Filmcoop) and partners John Laing and Mark Gingras at Urban Post Production and the entire team at Raven Banner who were there from the very start, that got us across the finish line and to our Canadian Digital Release this month. I’m proud of the work everyone did on this, and the fact that this movie exists at all, is testament to this team. I’m proud that we were able to raise over $40,000 on our Indiegogo Campaign from our extraordinary film community, getting our friends and family and new fans to believe in our story and give us the financial ability to go out and make it without any grants or film funds. We simply couldn’t have done it without our Indiegogo believers. I guess I define ambitious as doing something hard the world has not asked for, or wants from you, but you do it anyway, damn the naysayers. Clearly, no one asked for a Japanese Canadian crime/ cello/caper film set in Hamilton as Hamilton – but we made one anyway because that’s the story we wanted to tell, these were the people we wanted to work with. And that’s how you make history – by going somewhere no one else has gone before, to show others you can walk on a path you never saw in the first place.

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The film premiered at the Whistler Film Festival (I’m actually sitting in Whistler as we speak). Has the city of Hamilton had the chance to see the film yet? Whistler is SO GREAT, isn’t it John?! I’m so very grateful to have been able to world-premiere Things I Do For Money at the formidable Whistler Film Festival before COVID-19 changed everything for us. Who knows how long and how severe of an affect the pandemic will have on our ability to watch and enjoy films with an audience, but I’m so glad many of our cast and crew were able to make it to Whistler for their stunning, fun and dynamic festival for our team to enjoy. We had NINE Canadian cities lined up to release our movie theatrically, starting with the historic Westdale Cinema in Hamilton, which we were so excited to be able to do starting April 8. But Friday the 13th of March immediately changed everyone’s plans across North America. Since then, especially after the tragic murder of George Floyd on May 25 and the world’s necessary focus on Black Lives Matter, the brutal police killings of Black and Indigenous people and the social unrest in our North American Cities, made us not only pause our film, but look inward in what we’re doing in our own personal lives. The film had to wait because there are much more important issues happening in the world, all against the backdrop of a global pandemic. But now, as we look to launch the film digitally across Canada with Raven Banner, we have totally gone back to its roots in Hamilton with a wonderful, sold-out premiere at the Starlite Drive-In on July 22 that was just incredible to be a part of. We’ll also work with many Hamilton stakeholders like the Hamilton Film Fest, Lights Camera Hamilton, McMaster University and the Creative Theatre Company with Watch Party Zoom Events. But it’s not just Hamilton, we’re talking with organizations across Canada like the extraordinary The First Weekend Club, the UBC Film Society, Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Reel Asian Film Festival, Japanese Cultural Centres, Black Hole Films/ That Shelf and BIPOC TV & Film to introduce the movie to our Canadian audience. I can’t wait for people to finally be able to see our film! To bring things up to the present, how have you been navigating the quarantine and lockdown? COVID-19 has changed absolutely everything, not just in our film & TV sector, but our world in general. I will say, I feel more safe going back to work and being on set, than I do going to the grocery store, but hopefully people will just start wearing masks in public on the regular. My fabulous wife Jen Pogue (and one of the producers of Things I Do For Money) and I got married last October, thankfully, well before the pandemic hit our shores. We’ve been locked down in Toronto with our dog Scruffie, trying to do our part by staying in and helping out when we can. I’ve been active and busy on the Directors Guild of Canada front, helping with our Return To Work efforts and Director Protocols, as well as taking advantage of this time off to do more training and mentorship programs and Zooms with the DGC and BIPOC TV & Film. Creatively, I was

Friday the 13th of March immediately changed everyone’s plans across North America. Since then, especially after the tragic murder of George Floyd on May 25 and the world’s necessary focus on Black Lives Matter, the brutal police killings of Black and Indigenous people and the social unrest in our North American Cities, made us not only pause our ﬁlm, but look inward in what we’re doing in our own personal lives. The ﬁlm had to wait because there are much more important issues happening in the world, all against the backdrop of a global pandemic. Things I Do For Money - Greenband Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSWfuovQ0k&t=23s Facebook www.facebook.com/thingsidomovie Instagram: www.instagram.com/thingsidomovie Twitter twitter.com/thingsidoformo1 Linktree linktr.ee/wpsdirector Website/thingsidoformoney.com Finally, any advice to aspiring filmmakers in the community? Wash your hands, keep your distance from each other, wear your mask, mitigate risk. Practice compassion, patience, diligence, common sense able to direct the first Canadian TV show to have and empathy during this unprecedented time. We all have to work tobeen shot entirely remotely during the quarantine for gether and do our part. The Japanese Canadian community also needs Youtube Kids & Family Originals called Lockdown. Vi- to work hard to help abolish systemic anti-Black and Indigenous racism. sionary creator J.J. Johnson and his team at Sinking Don’t think we’re not a part of this movement, we can all do better. And Ship Entertainment quickly put together this project mostly, don’t give up hope, be encouraging and kind to one another, tell for us to do, and It was a surreal, exciting and just the story you really want to tell and see it through your own distinct, perreally great to have something creative to focus on sonal point of view. Swing big and Shoot Good (Safe) Film. during quarantine. I directed Episodes 3 and 4, but Episode 3 “Stake Outing” in particular (www.youtube. com/watch?v=HOP7VGErcAo&t=344s), written by the amazing Lakna Edilima, deals with racism during the pandemic and how our teenage characters deal 2300 Birch Street with it. I was so proud to have been able to work on Vancouver • BC • V6H 2T2 that project, and it kept me creatively in the flow for Tel: 604 731 1400 a bit while the whole word seemed to fall apart on the daily. But really, we’ve been glued to the news Fax: 604 733 6700 and our social feeds, trying to keep up with the health, www.oakwest.net political and social movements and policies that oakwest@telus.net seem to change hour to hour. For a world that’s been shutdown for months, I’ve never been more busy or exhausted. My heart and thanks goes out to all the Specializing in sales and management of residential, investment and vacation properties. Frontline Workers and Health Care Professionals who are making us safe, trying to keep us healthy and sacrificing so much. They’re our true heroes. Rhett Morita as Tosh Yaguchi. Photo by Sonny Peas.

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www.landscapesofinjustice.com This is our third installment of Miso Soup for the Soul, our series focusing on food, specifically comfort food and the foods that connect us to our roots and to each other. I have been reaching out to the community for recipes and for the stories that accompany them. The recipes don't have to be Japanese or JC recipes. They can be recipes that express our reality living in a diverse, pluralistic world, they can be fusions of east and west, or north and south. And they don't even have to be recipes – they can be essays on an ingredient or a type of cooking. They can be stories about cooking and connecting in the time of pandemic, or from your childhood. This is open to everyone – I hope to get recipes and stories from across the country. Please feel free to pass along to others.

Preserve-d in History by Michael Abe

Claim #1 Killing of Home The forced uprooting and dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s destroyed a community on the west coast, dispersing it across the country in subsequent years. Generations later, we try to piece together remnants of this home. One way, of course, is through food and their traditions.

sweet and sour chicken balls. Desserts like mochi manju and sembei are so much more appreciated now as our dear Nisei continue to depart. Luckily for some, they had recipes left behind or were taught how to make these cherished dishes.

MISO SOUP FOR THE SOUL

I remember the first “Japanese English” riddle I ever made up back in my youth. Baachan rolled her eyes, some siblings and cousins giggled, others carried on in oblivion.

What happened when the octopus fought the squid? The tako won. Ah, yes. The ubiquitous and formidable yellow and equally smelly, takuan. Bright yellow, crispy, crunchy, tasty morsels of pickled daikon, Japanese horseradish, dispensed rather surreptitiously from a jar passed around the table as people quickly lifted the lid, took their portions, replaced the lid and relayed to the next. The original social distancer. It has come a long way from the shiplap shacks of New Denver. There are so many foods and smells that remind me of growing up Japanese Canadian in a dual world of nihonjin and hakujin. New Year’s was special with foods that Baachan Abe, mom, and aunts lovingly prepared and the dozen-picnic-table-long potluck of Japanese food at the annual Toyota picnic. It was also hybrid dishes that had made it into our regular meal circuit, Cumberland chow mein, chashu and

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When I was living in Japan, I remember going to the grocery store and was awed by the variety of takuan that was available and hurried home with my treasure. I was, however, met with disappointment. It was crunchy yes, but not crispy, it was salty but not sweet at all, and it really wasn’t all that smelly. After a while I wrote home, desperate for the recipe, to fill that need for something that reminded me of home.

A few years ago, I came across a letter from my mother, dated September 5, 1989, with 6 pages of updates on the family and their three young grandchildren and the aunts, the uncles, the cousins, and the Blue Jays, etc. And the last few pages were well worn, shoyu-stained pages with the recipes for “takowan” (takuan), kimpira (fried gobo, burdock root) karashi napa, chashu (barbecued pork), sweet & sour sauce and sumono (sunomono, vinegared vegetables). These comfort foods would make up many a late night snack accompanied with a bowl of rice and ochatsuke and maybe some fried wieners. Oh, and umeboshi, that I have previously written about. I showed the recipe for mom’s “Takowan” to my daughter, Natsuki and we laughed at the ingredients. Cut daikon into slices. Prepare solution of water & table salt (enough salt to make potato slice float)…. “How big is the potato slice, how much water?” she asked until her brother, Kento reminded us of the principles of buoyancy. In any case, I see my handwriting in the corner, 10 l. water, 4 cups salt, 5 daikon. Such is the way of handing down recipes. A recipe for udon from my Auntie Nancy several years ago revealed a ladleful of powdered dashi, a thumb sized piece of ginger… and cousin Michele, noted that when making black beans for New Year’s o-seichi, “rusty”nails were to be added to the water while simmering (apparently the iron oxide reacts with the tannins to give it the dark black colour).

Reminiscing about Japanese food with others reveal other humorous and nostalgic stories. I recall a funny story from Lisa Uyeda and the role of takuan in her family. “Takuan is a family favourite in our house and we usually call it daikon,, yellow pickle, or stinky pickle. You can always find a good stash of it in the fridge. Back in my dating years, if I brought a potential suitor to the house they had to pass “the yellow pickle test.” I think my Dad started it as a joke, but successfully eating a piece of takuan continued on whenever friends made it to the dinner table. It was also a good indicator for me to know if these potential suitors could appreciate my favourite pickle! Thank goodness my partner Kevin passed the test.” And one final story that has stuck in my head since I first read it is a story from writer Sally Ito, who, in a series of short vignettes about her great Aunty Kay during the internment, shares a story about Japanese tsukemono (pickles).

Pickling Stone by Sally Ito In 1942, Japanese Canadians like my great aunt and grandmother were forcibly moved out of their homes into internment camps in interior B.C. My aunt and grandmother with her five boys were rounded up by the R.C.M.P. and taken to the temporary holding facility at Hastings Park in Vancouver before being shipped out by train to the Kootenays. They were allowed only a few items to take and these were stored in a central location at the park. My great aunt and grandmother went to this storage location to make sure that the items they brought – namely their sewing machines – were safe. (There is a story about how these sewing machines were procured but that is for another time.) When they got there, my great aunt noticed a large stone with a family’s name tag attached to it. “Who would have thought to bring that?” My aunt wondered aloud. “It’s their pickling stone,” my grandmother said. Pickles in Japan are made in vats with a disk of wood placed over the fermenting, salted vegetables pressed down with a large stone. Clearly, this family thought this stone was of such importance that they must bring it along with them wherever they would be going.

Mike Abe is a Nikkei Sansei who was involved in the Japanese Canadian community in Hamilton and now in Victoria BC. His wife is from Yamanashi prefecture and they have a son and daughter. Mike enjoys golf, sumi-e, shuji, karate and has a 3rd degree black belt in Yoshinkan Aikido. He is currently the project manager for Landscapes of Injustice.

The sisters looked at the stone, then at one another and burst into laughter. You can read other stories like this about Sally’s aunt at http://cowbird.com/ grdvph/. Sally has also published a memoir, The Emperor’s Orphans, where her Aunty Kay features as a narrating voice in the book. www.turnstonepress.com/books/non-fiction/memoir/emperors-orphans-the.html

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MCs Tetsuro Shigematsu and Yurie Hoyoyon, photo by Xinyue Liu. Backdrop by Shizuka Kai.

RE-IMAGINING POWELL STREET

POWELL STREET FESTIVAL PIVOTS TO ONLINE When COVID-19 hit Canada and the rest of the world this spring, Canada’s cultural sector was thrown into a tailspin. Once it became evident that large gatherings would not be possible over the summer, festivals, dance and theatre companies, and concert promoters were forced to look at radically new ways of moving forward. The Powell Street Festival, Vancouver longest-running community-based festival, began the process of re-imagining the festival early on, looking at possible scenarios. The Festival eventually settled on a hard pivot comprised of an online telethon and a fundraising drive to support the Downtown Eastside (DTES). With an initial goal of raising $20,000, a goal that was surpassed well before the telethon even started, the Festival eventually raised over $60,000 and received plaudits for the programming that took place online August 1. I talked to Executive Director Emiko Morita (EM) and Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator June Fukumura (JF) by email. First of all, congratulations on pulling this whole thing off. While I was only involved in the Taiko on the Rooftop opening, which was a small aspect of the telethon, I could see that this was a massive undertaking, with lots of different considerations, not least of which was ensuring that everyone was kept safe. At what point was the decision made to pivot to a telethon-style streaming event?

I imagine the ongoing health crisis provided unique challenges. What was the biggest logistical challenge in switching from a park full of people to an online-only event?

EM: Our challenges were multifold: the ever-changing factors of operating during a pandemic, lack of live-broadcast experience (very different from a multi-stage live production), and how to create an inclusive platform to bring together our diverse community members during a time of mandated social distancing (and the fact that some of EM: We hosted online Town Halls with our our stakeholders have limited access to computers and the internet). stakeholders – artists, community groups, vendors, We enlisted the support of tech, production, theatre and fundraising volunteers – throughout the month of April. Thanks experts so we were confident we’d be able to pull something off. We had to their input, our understanding of their needs and to construct the Telethon in a way that could adapt to any shift during the values and possible solutions evolved quickly. In pandemic crisis. fact, the vision of a Telethon aesthetic was seeded by community member Michael Abe of Landscapes One component in response to these unique challenges was the distribution of 1,500 care packages to unhoused and precariously of Injustice. housed people living in the DTES, an endeavour funded by Vancouver Foundation’s Covid Response grant. And to complement this, we staged The Giving Ceremony as a live event on Jackson Street to honour and acknowledge our reciprocal relationship with folks in the neighbourhood.

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JF: The DTES Community Care Program is a suite of social justice programs that services Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The DTES Community Care Program includes: the Hanami Cherry Blossom Picnic, Minori Harvest, the Asahi Tribute Game, the Giving Ceremony and the PowellStFest Community Kitchen. These programs aim to raise awareness of Japanese Canadian history and culture, while creating inclusive, capacity-building experiences that foster economic and social equity for everyone. These programs provide meaningful and sustainable connection to the historic location of the early Japanese settlers prior to their forced removal during the Second World War. Through Powell Street Festival’s practice of social justice through art and culture, we honour this heritage while seeking to be accountable as settler-colonizers and acknowledging the larger narrative of displacement on these unceded territories of the Tsleil–Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam peoples. Emiko, you’ve been quoted as saying, "The health of the DTES is directly linked to the health of the Powell Street Festival." Could you elaborate on that? EM: How real is our purported resilience as Japanese Canadians if we cannot advance equity in the Paueru MashUp on Jackson Street. Photo by John Endo Greenaway. Downtown Eastside (DTES)? From its inception, Days before the Telethon, we were faced with delays and possible Powell Street Festival has been an expression of cancellations due to Covid-19 testing and contact tracing. If it came to empowerment – Japanese Canadians returning to the it, we were prepared to cancel the live performances, have our hosts nexus of the community’s dispossession and spiritual appear from their home studios, and stream only pre-taped material. hurt. We gather, we sing, dance, eat – celebrate our art We followed public health guidelines, had extra support from peer and culture in every form! – and in doing so, we send workers who provided hand sanitation stations and physical distancing out a kiai shout that expresses our collective power, reminders, and our hosts committed to a shared “bubble.” Thankfully, challenges people’s assumptions about Japanese Canadian identity, and hopefully offers space and everything worked out! strength to other marginalized people. At a certain point into the COVID-19 quarantine and lockdown, lots of folks were getting burned out on living online, did you face much This year, Powell St. Festival friends, family and fans rallied to raise a large sum of money. 100% of the pushback on your vision of a digital festival? funds will create jobs for DTES residents and fill gaps JF: There were some questions raised of whether viewers would tune in the food supply chain. The PowellStFest Community and watch a live stream at home during a sunny August long weekend. Kitchen is a modest step in the right direction. We anticipated that viewers may not be able to stay for the entire duration so we curated our program in such a way that it could be One major initiative of this year’s Festival was the enjoyed in segments or in its entirety. We were really surprised to learn Paueru MashUp, which my wife Amy took part in. that there were many people who tuned in for the entire five hours! As Can you talk about how that came to be, and your well, in the weeks leading up to the Telethon we tried to diversify our thoughts on possibilities for the future? digital engagement by utilizing a mix of social media platforms. While EM: In 2015, Leslie Komori, longtime taiko drummer we acknowledge that digital tools are not accessible for everyone, we and festival coordinator, proposed a Festival Dance experimented with various modes of communication to try and engage inspired by Sylvain Émard’s Le Grand Continental as many people as we could. community dance. We tried to get a project off The goal of the telethon was to raise funds for the Powell Street Festival Society’s DTES Community Care Program, specifically the PowellStFest Community Kitchen. By any metric, the fundraising was an unequivocal success. Please talk about these programs, and their importance to the Festival’s mandate.

the ground but our funding applications were unsuccessful. During our Town Hall discussions last spring, Leslie mentioned the project again. Yes! we thought, what a perfect Covid-19 project. A great opportunity to animate the festival sounds and

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Carolyn Nakagawa and Laura Fukumoto perform excerpt from The Mending Circle. Photo by Xinyue Liu.

gestures, to bring people together while socially distancing. We commissioned Onibana Taiko and Company 605 to create the Paueru MashUp community dance. We plan to dance the Paueru MashUp together in Oppenheimer Park at the 45th Powell Street Festival (July 31 and August 1, 2021). The hope is that Paueru MashUp will go viral (pun intended) and become as ubiquitous as Tanko Bushi at Japanese festivals throughout North America. The dance lessons are available on our Youtube Channel, so you can start learning now! One outcome of this COVID-19 pivot was that the Festival suddenly became a national event. Participants no longer had to buy a plane ticket to Vancouver to participate and I understand that you had viewers across the country. What kind of responses have you been getting? JF: The national and international support we received was overwhelmingly positive and we couldn’t be more pleased by the expanded audience reach. We had over 600 views from cities across Canada, United States, Japan, and even Australia! By embracing digital technology, we were able to connect with people who we could not have engaged otherwise.

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Here are some reviews that we’ve received: “The telethon captured the spirit of the festival, bringing Powell Street Festival into the digital realm while nodding to grassroots origins. It was the most engaging online programming I have seen during the pandemic.” “Having a family of mixed heritage (French and Chinese-Malaysian) I feel a strong sense of solidarity with all immigrant communities who have had a rich and challenging history in Canada. To develop bilingualism of all sorts in children and a cultural literacy of seeing through different eyes, ears and feeling is the pathway to a richer society free of racism, intolerance and discrimination. The Powell Street Festival embodies a forward looking and always evolving embracing of the place of Japanese community and culture in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Canada. I love that you continue to lean-in with love for the place & neighbourhood.” “The Powell Street Festival telethon showed me how history (and the various forms of energy that historical memories and experiences can bring) can be activated to tackle present-day issues of settler colonialism. Rather than a single, detached, moment in history, the JC internment was a part of a long pattern of settler colonialism. By supporting the DTES community, who continue to live through the impacts of this colonial legacy in Canada and BC, the Powell Street Festival shows how we can confront the very notions that normalized displacement and dispossession.”

What surprised you most about how this year’s Festival played out? And were there any lessons learned that can carry over to future events? JF: When we began pre-production of this Telethon in the spring we were uncertain about so many things: whether we could pull off such a complex production in such a short time; whether audience members would be interested in an online event; and if we could meet our fundraising goal. Every part of this process was uncharted territory, we really didn’t know what to expect. But to our surprise, the Telethon was met with an outpouring of support from around the world and we surpassed our fundraising goal beyond our wildest dreams! And our team was able to pull off a technically challenging program that seemed almost impossible when we first began this process. It’s been one exciting surprise after another – a truly historical moment of transformation, growth, and resilience for the Powell Street Festival. We learned that just like our Japanese Canadian ancestors who endured difficulties in the past, we too can pull together during these turbulent times to bring about positive change. This Telethon has created a new pathway for the Festival to evolve and adapt into the future. EM: June zooming in live... how cool was that! For those who missed the telethon, is there a way to see a video of the event? JF: In case you missed it or want to watch it again, Powell Street Festival Telethon can be viewed on our Youtube channel. Uploaded in five onehour segments, you can watch with family and friends to experience the spirit of the festival right from your home! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQn4IsehAvU

Members of Sawagi Taiko warm up for opening ceremonies on the roof of the Vancouver Japanese Language School. Photo by John Endo Greenaway.

Is there anything else you’d like to add? EM: A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us, helped spread the word and made donations, and to Susanne Tabata, who was responsible for our top-notch production values. The success of the Telethon validates our purpose and vision, and we are very grateful to have you along for the journey.

GVJCCA President Judy Hanazawa and board member Wendy Matsubuchi help prepare 400 bento meals at Vancouver Buddhist Temple on July 31. Photo courtesy Wendy Matsubuchi.

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update THANK YOU TO THE POWELL STREET FESTIVAL TELETHON DONORS We are overjoyed with the outpouring of support. Together, we raised $64,389! Aaron Bowcott, Abaton Projects, Adam Wasserman, Addena Sumter-Freitag, Adriane King, Ai Yamamoto, Akemi Miyazaki, Akira Imai, Al Lalany and Olivia Skye Hub, Alberta Randall, Alec Brady, Alex Smyth, Alfred Ching, Alfred G Lam, Ali Davar, Alia Nakashima, Alison Crysler, Alison Norman, Alix Nishihara, Allison Jones, Alvin Law, Alyssa de Jesus, Amanda Growe, Amanda Vieira, Amy Lai, Amy Zywiecki, Amy Wu, Andrew Picard, Angela Ho, Angie Tang Wong, Ann Ishiguro, Ann Mew, Ann-Marie Metten, Anna Brisco, Anneliese Herbosa, Anny Lin, Aretha Aoki, Aria Gray, Art Kanzaki, Arthur Miki, Ashley Cannell, Asia Harvey, Atira, Ayaka Yoshimizu, Ayumi Goto, Baco Ohama, Barbara Pulling, Basya Laye, Beth Carter, Bing Ho, Black Lab, Blair Galston, Bob Tyrrell, Bonnie Soon, Bonnie & David Jessiman, Boon Kondo, Bradley Cuzen, Brandon Leung, Brayden Naka, Brian Pollard, Bryce Kanbara, Bujinkan Taka Seigi Dojo Vancouver, Cail Smith, Cameron Cavers, Capture+, Cara Seccafien, Caroline Yoshida-Butryn, Carolyn Nakagawa, Carrie Greig, Cassandra Kobayashi, Catherine Bray, Catherine Dixon, Catherine Su, Cathy Nakagawa, Catlin Renay, Catlin and Chika Buston, ChloÎ Packer, Chris Buchanan, Chris MacDonald, Christa Hughes, Christiana Miewald, Christina Lee, Christy Fong, Clara Kumagai, Clare Yow, Colin Chan, Colin Yakashiro, Constance Kadota, Coreen Philley, Corey Bauch, Craig Natsuhara, Culum Osborne, Curtis Mazur, Dan Tokawa, Dana Putnam, Daniel Carkner, Daniel Lin, Daniel Pon, Danilo Chiga, Darren Schmidtz, David Iwaasa, David Shimizu, David Yakashiro, David & Chris Clancy, David C. Corrin, Dean Sinnett, Deanna Cheng, Deborah Connolly, Debra Iwamoto, Diana Freundl, Diana Hall, Diane Nishii, Dietrich Bassewitz, Donna Deyell, Donna Lee, Doug Chiu, Drew Hall, E Kariatsumari, E. Stef, Ed Chan, Edward Steel, Eiichiro Ouichi, Eileen Kage, Eleanor Wearing, Elizabeth Stanton, Elizabeth Person, Ellen Kurz, Ellie O’Day, Elmer Morishita, Emiko Morita, Emiko Newman, Emily Bridge, Emily Guerrero, Emily Tsang, Emily Wu, Emily Yakashiro, Emlyn Murray, Eoghan Moriarty, Eri Kikuchi, Eric Wada, Erica Isomura, Erin Scarr, Eshaya Minchin, Faye Pagdonsolan, Felicia Yee, Francesca Piscopo, Fujiya, Gary Katayama, Ginger Ngo, Glen Hansman, Gordon Sing, Grace Ho, Grace Eiko Thomson, Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizen’s Association, Greg Masuda, Greg Soone, Gregor Reid, Gregory T Miyanaga, Greystone Books, Gwendal Castellan, Gwendolyn Yip & Santa Ono, Haeccity Studio Architecture, Hailey Mah, Hana Dethlefsen, Hapa Collaborative, Haruho Kubota, Haruko Okano, Heather Lamoureux, Heidi Nutley, Heidi Taylor, Henry Tsang, Hiroko Kitayama, Hiroko B King, Hiromi Goto, Hiromi Mikasa, Hitomi Nunotani, Ichiyo’s Matcha Bar, Indri Pasaribu, Isaac Louie, Isabella Hu, Izumi Sakamoto, Jai Djwa, James Nakagawa, Jamie Lam, Jane Ellison, Jane Good, Jane Hashimoto, Jane MacDonald, Janice Isomura, Janice Shimizu, Jason Soo, Javia Leung, Jayce Salloum, Jean Okada, Jean Swanson, Jeannette de Couto, Jeff Masuda, Jeff Sommers, Jeff Zheng, Jeff Chiba Stearns, Jen Gauthier, Jen Ho, Jennifer Buck, Jennifer O’Hara, Jessica Hannon, Jessica Lyth, Jessica Tremblay, Jill Swanston, Joanne Campbell, Jocelyn Morlock, Jodie Mak, Joe Watson, John Price, John Philip Richardson, Jon Wiedemann, Joni Low, Jordan Strom, Jose Ledesma, Joyce Chong, Joyce Wong, Judith Lee, Judy Hanazawa, Julia Aoki, Julia Wong, June Fukumura, June Ho, K Ho, K Louise Allen, Kahoruko Yamamoto, Kaitlin Findlay, Kaitlyn Berreth, Kaitlyn Fung, Kam Bansal, Kami Insurance Agencies Ltd., Karen Bartlett, Karen Dar Woon, Karen Fung, Karen Gillespie, Karen Inouye, Karen Okada, Kate Stefiuk, Katherine Lamond, Kathryne Ayres, Kathy Shimizu, Kathy Smail, Kathy Shimizu, Kayla Isomura, Kaylea Hamaguchi, Kaz Shikaze, Kazuho Yamamoto, Keiko Funahashi, Keiko Miki, Keith Lim, Kelly Cubbon, Ken Weiland, Kenji Tokawa, Kenneth Ernst, Kevin Chow, Kevin Isomura, Kevin Voon, Kimberley Kalanj, Kimi Hawkes, Kira Wu, Kitaek Hong, Kohei Yoshino, Kokoro Dance, Kristen Lambertson, Kyle Yakashiro, Kyoko Tazumi, Kyoko Fleming, Kyra Heavyside, Lad Tak, Laina Tanahara, Laiwan Chung, Laura Chang, Laura Ishiguro, Laura Kotick, Laura Weir, Lauren Dey, Lauren Wong, Lawrence Lam, Leanne Dunic, Leslie Shieh, Leslie Komori, Li Mei Yip, Lia Cosco, Liam Shea, Lily Shinde, Lily Tamoto, Lin Ho-You, Linda Gelley, Linda Hoffman, Lisa David, Lisa Mah, Lisa Uyeda, Lisa Yip, Lois White, Lorene Oikawa, Lori Rozali, Lotus Miyashita, Lovely Ranges, Lucas Montalbetti, Lucy Komori, Luke Chuang and Darius Maze, Lydia Kwa, Lydia Luk, Lyn Ishizaki, Lynn Kobayashi, M Nakamura, MacKenzie Dyck, Madeleine Chan, Madeline Keller-MacLeod, Maiku Brando, Maki Natori, Mandy Lam,

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Congratulations to the Powell Street Festival on the successful August 1 streaming Telethon extravaganza that drew viewers from across Canada and around the world. The pre-Telethon campaign and the Telethon itself ultimately raised over $64,000 towards the society’s DTES Community Care Program, with the funds earmarked for the PowellStFest Community Kitchen. As Executive Director Emiko Morita says, “How real is our purported resilience as Japanese Canadians if we cannot advance equity in the Downtown Eastside (DTES)?” At a time when the resilience of millions of people around the world is being sorely tested, the Festival’s hard pivot to an entirely new model was courageous. Ultimately, the decision to go ahead, but in a re-imagined manner, paid off, and the Festival staff, board, and volunteers deserve a lot of praise. continued on page 43

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By Judy Hanazawa Hello everyone! As I write this, it is a warm and sunny day and I hope you are doing well. Living during a pandemic has meant we have gone through a lot of adjustment. Congratulations for your endurance, and staying safe, calm and kind! We will have our Annual General Meeting on Saturday August 22, 2020 at the Hall in the Nikkei Centre. There will be room to properly distance 30 people, with masks and sanitizer on hand for you. Please attend if you can so that you can receive our reports, discuss our programming, address the motion about the qualifications of the GVJCCA president, and participate in electing a new board. We are so appreciative about the support you provide. Thank you membership, and see you on the 22nd! Given COVID-19, the GVJCCA participated in a fundraiser on July 28 by working on the 2020 Powell Street Festival lunch project, cooking and preparing

bento lunches for local downtown eastside residents. A few of us also had fun taking part in the Paueru MashUp dance – a dance for all to celebrate our community. We also supported the Powell Street Festival Society project to raise more than $60,000 toward a community kitchen as part of PSFS’s Community Care Program. They are doing amazing things to raise awareness of Japanese Canadian history and culture as well as advocate for and support the well-being of the residents and community of the Downtown Eastside. The GVJCCA continues to be very active in the Act2 End Racism network We are now focused on consultation sessions to develop policy recommendations in areas such as gathering race based data, addressing anti Asian racism incidents, public education on racialized communities and racism, relations with human rights commissions, establishing a Covid 19 task force and re-imagining law enforcement. In addition the GVJCCA is taking part in the province of BC’s anti racism network programming which will address issues of racialized communities as well as the learning needs within the mainstream in understanding the prevalence and impact of racism in BC. continued on page 19

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JAPANESE CANADIAN WORKING GROUP • UPDATE • On November 15, 2018 the last in-person meeting between the Japanese Canadian Working Group and the Anglican Church took place. Attending members included, Wendy Matsubuchi-Bremner, Emiko Lashin, Larry Okada and Judy Hanazawa. Anglican Church representatives included Archbishop Melissa Skelton, and Chancellor George Cadman of the Diocese of New Westminster. Chancellor George Cadman informed those present the Anglican Church would be unable to further address and negotiate any substantive healing funding for the Japanese Canadian community unless the Japanese Canadian representation was a legal entity. SCHEDULING ANGLICAN HEALING FUND NEGOTIATION MEETINGS IN 2020 BETWEEN THE AD HOC NAJC WORKING GROUP AND THE ANGLICAN CHURCH The Ad Hoc NAJC Working Group Committee through the Executive Board of the NAJC, is preparing now to communicate with the Anglican ANNOUNCEMENT Church to announce the establishment of the Ad Hoc NAJC Working Group As of July 9, 2020 the Japanese Canadian Working Committee and request a meeting within 2020 to resume discussions Group (JCWG) became an Ad Hoc Committee of the regarding the establishment of an Anglican Church Healing Fund for National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC). Japanese Canadians as meaningful resolution to their Apology of June It will be referred to as the Ad Hoc NAJC Working 15, 2015. Group Committee. The Japanese Canadian Working Group (JCWG) was CURRENT MEMBERSHIP initially composed of concerned Japanese Canadian The Ad Hoc NAJC Working Group Committee is now joined by NAJC community members who offered advocacy for representatives Executive Director Kevin Okabe and the NAJC Vice survivors and their families and to address community President and Chair of the NAJC Human Rights Committee, (who currently healing needs regarding the child sexual abuse is Keiko Miki). Other members are Judy Hanazawa, Constance Kadota, perpetrated by Anglican minister GG Nakayama. Emiko Lashin, Wendy Matsubuchi-Bremner, Liz Nunoda, Larry Okada, Mr. Nakayama sexually abused approximately 300 Naomi Shikaze, Lily Shinde, and Peter Wallace. Japanese Canadian youth, mostly boys, throughout his career as an Anglican minister which began in 1934 and ended with his enforced resignation in 1994.

HISTORY 2017 TO 2020 Chronology

Upon collaborative work between the Japanese • Following the 2015 Apology, a community education event was presented on February 18, 2017 by the JCWG about the profile of a Canadian Working Group and the Anglican Diocese clergy sexual abuser, and effects, treatment and healing process for of New Westminster and the Diocese of Calgary, survivors, their families and community. and with the endorsement of the Anglican Church of Canada, an apology was issued by the Diocese of New • During October, 2017 to June, 2018, with sponsorship from the Diocese Westminster and the Diocese of Calgary to Japanese of New Westminster and Diocese of Calgary, JCWG members Wendy Canadians on June 15, 2015 for the sexual crimes of Matsubuchi and Judy Hanazawa delivered community education and Mr. Nakayama while an Anglican minister. outreach events in Lethbridge, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Hamilton, and Montreal. Participants were provided information about GG THE NEED TO BECOME A LEGAL ENTITY Nakayama, educational information about clergy sexual abuse and REPRESENTING JAPANESE CANADIANS survivor and community support. Community members also gave their On July 21, 2018, for the purpose of having legal recommendations about appropriate purposes for an Anglican Church national status and with acknowledgement the survivor and community healing fund as a meaningful resolution for National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) the 2015 Apology. Healing funding from the Anglican Church based Constitution upholds social justice and human rights on community recommendations, would generally be applied to: issues, the Japanese Canadian Working Group formally • Scholarship funding requested the National Association of Japanese Canadians to accept the Japanese Canadian Working • Counselling support for survivors, families and other community Group as a committee of the NAJC and to be the legal members harmed by GG Nakayama entity representing the Japanese Canadian community • Community education and healing support funding for providing in healing fund negotiation meetings with the Anglican events, educational materials and other resources Church.

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• A status report and funding proposal dated June 29, 2018, entitled “Report and Recommendations of the Japanese Canadian Working Group upon Completion of National Japanese Canadian Outreach and Education Meetings” was drafted following the national outreach community meetings. A community version was forwarded to all individuals and communities who had participated in the national outreach, and a full report was forwarded to Anglican Church representatives.

BECOMING AN AD HOC COMMITTEE OF THE NAJC The JCWG initially wrote to the NAJC seeking formal approval to become a committee of the NAJC on July 21, 2018. Over 2018 to 2020, after further correspondence, joint meetings, and JCWG reports to the NAJC on matters such as: • proposed committee roles and responsibilities

• administrative procedure • The Report, developed out of the feedback received from our national outreach, was the basis for discussion for the first Healing Fund • decision making authority negotiation meeting with the Anglican Church which took place July • preparation steps in meetings with the Anglican 15, 2018. Attending the July 15 meeting were members of the Japanese Church Canadian working group, invited community members and the following the JCWG received information on July 9, 2020, that representatives of the Anglican Church: the National Executive Board of the NAJC approved • Archbishop Melissa Skelton of the Diocese of New Westminster the Japanese Canadian Working Group as an Ad Hoc Committee of the NAJC. • Archbishop Gregory Kerr-Wilson of the Diocese of Calgary • Primate Fred Hiltz of the Anglican Church of Canada • Chancellor George Cadman of the Diocese of New Westminster • The meeting ended with assurance from Archbishop Gregory KerrWilson that funding for counselling service for survivors, families and others harmed by GG Nakayama would be provided by the Diocese of Calgary. Other proposed funding purposes such as scholarship funding or funding for national educational and healing gatherings would need further discussion between parties, and any approval would require referral to the national structure composed of all representative Diocese of the Anglican Church.

THANK YOU TO THE NAJC We thank the Board of the NAJC and the work of Executive Director Kevin Okabe for guiding and collaborating with the JCWG to establish the Ad Hoc NAJC Working Group Committee, and achieve this positive outcome. As a national legal entity and organization representing Japanese Canadians across Canada, the NAJC is recognized as the appropriate representative organization to address the outstanding steps which need to take place with the Anglican Church of Canada to successfully negotiate appropriate healing community funding and achieve just closure for Japanese Canadian survivors, families and community.

JCCA continued By the time of this reading, we will also have applied for a NAJC community development grant to support racism education zoom programming over 2020 and 2021 to present the resiliency stories of other racialized communities and examine racism’s impact within our community as well. A foremost goal of these antiracism activities is to reach out, work together with all stakeholders to eliminate systemic racism.

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Lastly, we will be participating with Tonari Gumi in the Tonari Gumi and Greater Vancouver JCCA Charity Golf classic which takes place on Sunday, August 23, a day after the AGM. This fundraiser helps the GVJCCA do our part in maintaining our joint property with Tonari Gumi at 42 West 8th Avenue. Please sign up and go out and have a good time at Meadows Gardens Golf Course. It’s a special event being the 55th anniversary of the first GVJCCA tournament! Take care all, stay positive and enjoy the rest of the summer!

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L to R, Lorene Oikawa, John Horgan, Susanne Tabata. Premier Horgan is holding a photo of himself with George Takei. Premier Horgan said he was deeply moved by the story of Japanese American George Takei's incarceration during the Second World War and he knows that Japanese Canadians have similar powerful stories in the dark history of BC.

by Susanne Tabata The NAJC is currently in talks with the BC provincial government to determine a set of legacy initiatives for the community. On July 9, 2020 the NAJC met to present a list of NAJC BC Redress Legacy Initiatives to the BC Premier’s office Chief of Staff Geoff Meggs and Hon. Minister of Citizens’ Services Anne Kang. Presenting at the meeting were Paul Kariya, Lorene Oikawa, and Susanne Tabata. Premier John Horgan dropped in on the meeting to voice his support for our community. Additional analysis is being provided by Dr. Audrey Kobayashi for population data; and further fiscal analysis is being done by the Institute of Fiscal Studies in Democracy in Ottawa – under the direction of Kevin Page & Sahir Kahn. The NAJC will provide a more detailed update in the fall. Herein is a progress report.

THEMES The five key areas are: health & wellness; combatting racism & acknowledgement; education; heritage assets + living heritage; culture & community building. The list of ‘asks’ – extracted from a report written by Susanne Tabata & Paul Noble – follow months of research in the community to validate original themes in the November 15, 2019 Recommendations Report. The original report consisted of themes: education; combatting racism; public awareness through memorialization; funding to support community programming, health and wellness; and the importance of a formal acknowledgement of the province’s role.

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TIMELINE we are supporting the construction of a monument This presentation to the BC Government was the culmination of the which names all JCs who were removed from the coast; following events: advocating for a exportable seniors’ health package • November 15, 2019 – Submission of Redressing Historical Wrongs to include culturally competent care; supporting the Community Consultations Report presented along 5 themes: educa- development of education tools which can be digitally tion; combatting racism; public awareness through memorialization; accessed; and promoting the support of the digital hub funding to support community programming, health and wellness; and for archives. the importance of a formal acknowledgement of the province’s role. • January 2020 – several informal meetings with Liberal and NDP MLAs and Ministers in their offices to introduce them to the NAJC’s project. • January 2020 – Commencement of meetings with BC Japanese Canadian community organizations and individuals to validate asks along original five themes.

Most importantly, the NAJC recognizes the work done by the Apology Legacy Committee – Tosh Suzuki and Roy Inouye – which led to the 2012 BC Apology as presented by MLA Naomi Yamamoto. Any additional acknowledgement by the BC government would build on this apology.

Our goal was to address blind spots in the community, • February 7, 2020 – NAJC meeting with TAC Assistant Deputy Minister and to ensure that the NAJC is very clear about its Asha Baht to review government’s response to report. (Notes received position with respect to representing the interests of from Government on March 13) individuals and organizations in our BC communities, • May 1, 2020 – Delivery to NAJC National Executive Board and BC and by extension – our community nationwide. Our list Redress Strat Team of 37 page report BC Redress Asks Development of engagement includes the following consultations: Political & Communications Road Map written by Paul Noble and Su- • Steveston Community – Kelvin Higo sanne Tabata (forthcoming public facing report will be published in the • Dan Nomura fall). • GVJCCA – Judy Hanazawa & Kathy Shimizu • NAJC Toronto Chapter – Lynn Kobayashi & Ron Shimizu • Victoria Nikkei Cultural Society – Tsugio Kurushima • Vernon Japanese Cultural Society – Rick Ogasawara • Kamloops Japanese Canadian Association – George Uyeda • 7 Potatoes/Ucluelet Museum – Eiko Eby A challenge in developing the asks was to be able to align the thematic • Nikkei National Museum – Sherri Kajiwara suggestions taken from individual consultations , with the community or• Nikkei Cultural Centre – Karah Goshinmon ganization which would be administering any particular ‘ask’. In addition • Nikkei Seniors – Ruth Coles the reasonableness of the ‘ask’ was measured. • Nikkei Seniors – Cathy Makihara A vast majority of stakeholders want to have access to a community fund • Tonari Gumi – David Iwassa for their projects and programming. Some organizations with infrastructure • Powell Street Festival Society – Emiko Morita in place were able to articulate specific projects. • Vancouver Japanese Language School – Laura Saimoto The NAJC is mindful of the relationships that certain organizations have with the BC Government – ie: initiatives led by Laura Saimoto of the • New Denver – Mayor Leonard Casley Vancouver Japanese Language School – and takes a position of support • Simon Fraser University – Kirsten McAllister • University of Victoria – Karen Kobayashi, Associate and non-interference. Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of The NAJC is also aware that any negotiations for the Powell Street neighSocial Sciences bourhood must be directed through the subcommittee of JCs working with • Landscapes of Injustice, UVic – Jordan Stanger Ross the City of Vancouver, as directed by the BC Government in response to • Howard Shimokura the original recommendations report. In addition, the Powell Street Festival • Hastings Park – Dan Tokawa Society has taken a clear position to not ‘ask’ for a building in the area. STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT & CONSIDERATIONS Building on the work of the 2019 community consultations and Redressing Historical Wrongs Community Consultations Report, the ‘asks’ reflect input from all BC Japanese Canadian community stakeholders and are inclusive of the feedback from the BC Government to the initial report. These consultations were conducted by Susanne Tabata and Paul Noble.

The NAJC recognizes that there is a large percentage of the community who lives outside of BC as a result of these historical wrongs. To that end

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The ‘asks’ as currently presented are minus dollar values although there are cost estimates currently under evaluation. Once final analysis has taken place, figures will be published in September. Health and Wellness requires the most financial resources. HEALTH & WELLNESS Making the case for targeted funding for health and social care programs and services for JC older adults in BC

social care issues is insulting. It represents a failure to recognize the salience of the historical oppression experienced by the nisei on their mental well-being, and the lasting effects that this has had on their adult sansei children. An acknowledgement that this has happened is not enough. As a form of redress, we respectfully request that a community health and social care fund for Japanese Canadian seniors be established. Such a fund would help to ensure that those who experienced the internment and their descendants have access to government-supported programs and services as they age that their parents and grandparents never did.

Prepared by: Karen M. Kobayashi, PhD, Associate Dean Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor, Department of Sociology, Research Fellow, Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health, University of Victoria SENIORS CARE • Provide sustainable funding for person-based, March 20, 2020 culturally- competent care for survivors including Unlike other visible minority older adults (65+ years) in British Columbia, aging in place, meals on wheels, visitation programs, Japanese Canadians are largely a post-immigrant group. This means that social programming, transportation, day programs in the majority of Japanese Canadian older adults are Canadian-born. A existing facilities (e.g. Iki Iki – culturally-appropriate, large, but rapidly decreasing (due to passing), proportion of this group are dementia-friendly programming) and direct financial the nisei (second generation) who experienced the wartime internment support to Japanese Canadian seniors where needat young ages (<15 years). Although English-speaking and very much Caed. nadian in their expressed ethnic identity, the nisei retain a connection to Meiji era norms, values, and beliefs, the underpinnings of their issei (first • Bring together service providers and experts and generation) parents’ culture. As they have aged, the nisei, have started fund the development of a model to connect survito talk about their life course experiences, piecing together memories of vors in smaller communities to culturally-appropriate dispossession, forced removal and relocation, and family separation and health and wellness programming and resources, break-down. The trauma of the internment, and the events leading up including provincial mental health funding. to and following it, are slowly emerging after years of silence. This has been prompted and shepherded by sansei (third generation) children and • Fund existing Japanese Canadian service organizations to implement and scale this model. yonsei (fourth generation) grandchildren through community initiatives encouraging intergenerational conversations as a way to discuss mental • Provide funding support for additional culturalhealth issues. In order to address the unique health and social care needs ly-competent housing options in communities with of Japanese Canadian older adults, an increasing number of whom are high concentrations of Japanese Canadian seniors, sansei, targeted funding for programs and services is being requested including both independent and assisted living opfrom the BC government. This request is urgent. For decades, Japanese tions. Canadian community organizations in the Lower Mainland, the Interior, MENTAL WELLNESS and on the Island, have provided volunteer-driven programs and services • Establish a working group between the Ministry of for their older adult members to promote aging-in-place, person-centred Mental Health and Addictions, Ministry of Health, dementia care, and other government cost-saving initiatives. Community and Japanese Canadian community to: leaders who request funding to support these efforts have been told to work with “other Asian groups” like the Vietnamese and Filipinos to devel- Develop a directory of mental health professionals capable of providing culturally-appropriate care for op and run programs as their “numbers are too small” to warrant targeted internment survivors and their families, including resources. Such a response has and continues to reflect the ignorance of work on intergenerational trauma, therapeutic stofunders, including municipal and provincial governments, to the diverse rytelling (not for heritage or archival purposes), and needs, according to socio-demographic and historical experiences, of peer support training for members of the community. older adults in these communities. Indeed, the suggestion that Japanese Canadian community-based service providers in BC, due to the size of Develop and implement a community-led outreach and their client base, band together with other groups to address health and referral strategy to ensure uptake amongst survivors and their families.

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• Provide direct and ongoing provincial funding through BC’s Medical K-12 Services Plan for mental health services for internment survivors and • Work with the Japanese Canadian community to their families to promote wellness amongst current and future generaupdate Grade 5 Social Studies curriculum to make tions of Japanese Canadians. the internment, dispossession and dispersal of • Provide funding for the creation of community gathering programs and Japanese Canadians from 1942 – 1949 a standalone community-led workshops for intergenerational dialogue that bring component within “human rights and responses together older and younger Japanese Canadians, and both pre-war to discrimination in Canadian society” unit. (needs and post- war families, to create spaces for sharing stories, culture and enabling legislation) healing. • Work with the Japanese Canadian community to ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & COMBATTING RACISM

update Grade 10 Social Studies curriculum to make the internment, dispossession and dispersal of Japanese Canadians from 1942 – 1949 a standalone component within “discriminatory policies and injustices in Canada and the world” unit. (needs enabling legislation).

ANTI-RACISM WORKING GROUP To guarantee the preservation of a core anti-racism function, and ensure continuity from one Human Rights Commissioner to the next, a legislated anti-racism power and legislated permanent Anti-Racism Working Group should be added under section 47 of the BC Human Rights Code. Legislate the establishment, staffing and funding of a permanent Anti- Racism • Work with Japanese Canadian community to deWorking Group within the Office of the BC Human Rights Commissioner sign provincially-funded professional development dedicated to proactive anti-racism and anti-hate research, monitoring and training workshops and classroom materials for BC reporting to police, media and public. The Working Group would be led School Districts and teachers to maximize impact of by a OHRC secretariat, and made up of representatives of communities the updated curriculum. Ensure resources are made that have faced, or continue to face, racism in BC, including Japanese available online and available to teachers outside Canadians. The ARWG would provide a core inoculation function against BC. Provide provincial support to aid the community future systemic racism by initiating investigations into the political and with outreach to the BCTF’s, School Boards’ and BC social conditions that have given rise to systemic racism and racist acts schools’ PD programs to ensure uptake. in BC’s history, including denial of Indigenous title and rights, the intern- • Fund the development of curriculum packs and ment and dispossession of Japanese Canadians, the Chinese head tax, teacher resources to be used in all BC public Komagata Maru and others. schools and shared with all Canadian provinces Add JC representation to advisory of Resilience BC and the Multicultural and territories and developed through NNMHC and Advisory Council. Landscapes of Injustice. COMMEMORATE & HONOUR • Designate a Commemorative Day once redress is negotiated and host an event in the Hall of Honor. To accompany this, work with the Japanese Canadian community and Japanese Canadian artists to establish a monument of permanence at the BC Legislature or in Vancouver with names of the 21,460 (approx.) Japanese Canadian internees. Donate replicas to cities where Japanese Canadians were sent after the war.

POST SECONDARY • to be presented in September’s article. JC LEGACY FUND EDUCATION

Fund annual scholarships to Japanese Canadian students at the graduate level. The community will create • The research to complete the list of names would be done within the an awarding committee of Japanese Canadian scholars Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria. The Landscapes of to establish awards, and emphasis will be placed on Injustice project has some data collected in this area, which requires work that strengthens the Japanese Canadian acadisambiguation and further research. 2-3 graduate students would be demic community, with priority given to research that employed to complete the work. The NAJC has asked for replicas of focuses on the Japanese Canadian experience, includthis memorial to be produced for the regions outside of BC where the ing intergenerational studies and intergenerational trauma, adverse childhood experiences and mental community has a foothold. health, and social justice and human rights. EDUCATION (since the delivery of this ask, the details for K-12 education HERITAGE – ASSETS have been refined and are not reflected here) • Fund markers and interpretive information for the continued on page 25

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by Lorene Oikawa day are the drawings by children survivors. Those simple crayon drawings conveyed the gruesomeness of the injuries: limbs missing, eyeballs dangling from sockets, and the blood-red colour of the river where people gathered seeking relief for their burning bodies. Like the drawings, I will never forget some of the artifacts in the museum: a child’s tricycle, a watch that was crushed at the time of impact, a charred-black lunch kit. It was overwhelming. I went outside into the bright sunny day, sat on the steps and wept.

NAJC prez wearing a mask on BC Ferries on her way to a meeting in Victoria

One of the commemorative events we recognized this month is Hiroshima Day on August 6. It’s been 75 years since the bombing of Hiroshima. Many of the young children who survived that day are now seniors. I spoke to two of them to get their perspective. On August 6, we observe Hiroshima Day to remember the day in 1945 when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. The city was obliterated. About 70,000 people died that day and many more would die from their injuries and from radiation poisoning. The number of deaths would double by the end of that year. Most were civilians, including school children. The US dropped a second bomb three days later (August 9) on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. An estimated 75,000 people died. My family and I are settlers. My Canadian origins start with my ancestors, two brothers who came from Hiroshima, Japan in the 1800s. As a fourthgeneration Canadian, I did not have much knowledge or connection to Japan or its citizens. My bubble burst with my first visit to Japan in 1987. I visited Hiroshima, where we still have relatives, and went to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. hpmmuseum.jp/?lang=eng There were facts, figures, maps and photographs. But what haunts me to this

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In preparation for an article I was writing, I contacted my mom’s cousin, Katsukuni Tanaka. Katsukuni lives in Hiroshima and I wanted to ask him about family stories. He said the family had not wanted to talk about the bombing. It was only when they were close to death that they finally wanted to share what happened. He said, “My grandmother, Masayo Nakano, took me to every August 6 ceremony, and to the ceremony honouring post office workers. My aunt Toshie was killed by the A-bomb without any trace. She was 20 years old and working at the Hiroshima Central Post Office, which was very close to ground zero.” On August 6, 1945, at 8:15am, Katsukuni was a 20-month-old baby. He was at home with his mother when the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, obliterating the city. Their home was near Hiroshima Station, which is about 1.8 kilometres from ground zero. Their home was flattened, but he and his mother survived. To get him to a safer location, his mom, Kimie, held onto him and walked 20 kilometres east, through the rubble, to Kaita. Katsukuni told me that the names of everyone who died in the bombing are at the Hiroshima Peace Cenotaph. The names of all who died are kept in a registry held in a stone chest in the centre of the cenotaph. His mother and grandfather died of cancer in their early fifties. He and his remaining family are hibakusha – atomic bomb survivors, just like family friend, Setsuko Thurlow. Setsuko Thurlow was a keynote speaker at the NAJC AGM and Conference in Victoria in 2015. Setsuko is passionate about the survival of the world and bringing an end to nuclear weapons. It has been her life’s work for the past seven decades. I told Setsuko I was writing about Hiroshima Day and she sent me her vivid recollections. In 1945, she was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. She was one of about 7,000 students who were in the heart of the city on the day of the bombing. She was on the second floor. “I saw the bluish white flash outside the window,” she told me. “At that moment, I had the sensation of floating in the air. That’s the end of my consciousness.” She said she was trapped in smouldering rubble, but many “simply vaporized, practically melted, died.” She spoke on July 7, 2017, at the United Nations in New York, where 122 countries voted to adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons:

“Let us pause for a moment to feel the witness of those who perished in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both at that time, in August 1945, and over these 72 years. Hundreds of thousands people. Each person who died had a name. Each person was loved by someone.” Animation of Setsuko Thurlow’s speech at the UN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9c6_qobMko

Toronto, and virtually, across Canada. It’s an important reminder of the consequences of nuclear weapons, and a call to action for nations to support the treaty ban on nuclear weapons. For Canadians, it’s an opportunity to learn more, such as the role Canada played in the building of the atomic bombs, supplying the deadly uranium, and the harm that came to the Dene, Indigenous peoples in the Northwest Territories where the mine was located.

In December 2017, we saw a Japanese Canadian, Setsuko Thurlow, accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The prize was awarded to ICAN “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition on such weapons.”

[CBC: Mining for a Bomb https://bit.ly/3isKmdb] Check out our online programming najc.ca/online-programs/ On August 18, join a free masterclass with writer, broadcaster, theatre creator, Tetsuro Shigematsu. For updates and news sign up for NAJC e-news at http:// najc.ca/subscribe/

The NAJC wishes you well as we start a transition into the fall and reopening of communities. Follow safe social/physical distancing, wear masks if you can’t follow distancing, stay home if sick, cough/sneeze into Commemoration of Hiroshima Day underscores a tissues/your arm, don’t touch your face, keep washing your hands, and commitment for world peace. Japanese Canadians no large gatherings. joined with many others at events in Victoria, Winnipeg,

BC Redress continued sites where the communicated originated eg. Prince CULTURE & COMMUNITY BUILDING Rupert, Maple Ridge, Steveston, Ucluelet, Clayoquot Infrastructure Grants help build Japanese Canadian cultural facilities, with Island etc. an emphasis on capital upgrades that create inclusive cultural spaces and • Vancouver Japanese Language School Interpretive multi-use community assets that will be able to regenerate, repurpose, bring in new funds and create new activity in their communities. Centre (with matching funds) • Ucluelet Museum, NewDenver Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre, Cumberland Museum and Cemetery, Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre supporting endowments for staff. • Lillooet – Annual operation budget, qualified staffing as well as ample funds to achieve necessary repairs of the Miyazaki House to prevent long term damage and develop Miyazaki House to serve as a cultural historical educational resource for both local public as well as for tourists

Community Grants Fund community-focused programming and outreach to create space for people to reclaim their culture and connect with one another to build a stronger Japanese Canadian community (e.g. intergenerational programming, teaching cultural practices free Japanese language training for Japanese Canadians). Youth Social Entrepreneur Grants for younger Japanese Canadians. Create a committee of community members with relevant expertise to award and evaluate grants and to support grantees.

Japanese Canadian Future Fund Invest in innovative training, skills and business development for younger Japanese Canadians outside of • Fund restoration of Chemainus Japanese Canadian academia, including technology, design, trades and vocational schools, manufacturing, craft food production, etc. murals • Fund restoration of historic Japanese Canadian gardens at Nitobe Memorial Garden (Victoria), Momiji Garden at Hastings Park (Vancouver) & New Denver, Lillooet, Hope and the Gulf Islands. (Ministry of Forests / can be funded)

Capacity Building Grants to core Japanese Canadian community organizations & NAJC chapters

HERITAGE – LIVING HERITAGE • Fund the creation of a Japanese Canadian Heritage Tourism program including Tashme, Lillooet & New Denver – led by VJLS & NNMCC.

Arts Grants to support Japanese Canadian theatre, novels, film, storytelling & fine arts,

Create an annual Homecoming Grant for Japanese Canadians across Canada to visit BC Create outreach and organize annual trips during Powell Street Festival combined with Heritage tours of historical sites in BC

Sustaining funds for Powell Street Festival Society to support the programming work of the Powell Street Festival Society in the Historic Powell • Fund the creation of a Japanese Canadian Digital Street neighbourhood. Hub for records, pre-internment and survivor his- Figures will be published in the September Bulletin. tories, and archives including detailed historical Any questions can be directed to ace@najc.ca, Susanne Tabata. ownership records. NAJC BCR: Art Miki, Maryka Omatsu, Paul Kariya, Eiko Eby, Les Kojima, Lorene Oikawa, Susanne Tabata

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Summertime, and it’s the time of community picnics, just not this year. It feels as if I’ve landed in an alien world. No blaring announcements. No games in a field, like the egg toss, the shoe toss. No swimming, no races (the geta race was particularly amusing), no baseball games, no watermelon bash, nothing. photo: Tane Akamatsu What I miss most is the picnic food. Some picnickers went so far as to bring hibachi and grill meat. The heavenly aromas! Others bought and brought KFC or char shiu from Chinatown. Not lazy, just unskilled single men. Except one Sansei friend who brought this elaborate and incredible lunch. The plump musubi were lined up perfectly in a cardboard box, for example. I had to ask if he made everything. He just answered, “Nah, my ma made it.” I understood, you can’t show up without food. People will feed you, but you pay for it later with withering gossip – or at least your mother will be so embarrassed.

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and made popular by Wilbert Harrison and the Beatles. NAJC people would know Yo Mori – he played sax for the band. He was also Garry Kawasaki’s uncle. Garry was a bandmate of mine in the Asia Minors – a very talented musician. Yo and the other guys would call us up to sit in and play some “modern” songs. We did and we accompanied them as well. It was a lot of fun.

I miss the traditional picnic fare, long established in the JC community, maybe before WWII. Teriyaki chicken (of course), onigiri of all kinds, nishime, sunomono, somen including dashi (for the adventurous), takuan, green bean with gome dressing, chow mein (Japanese Canadian style), to name a few. Then there is the best dish of them all – tamago roll. I say it’s the best because I can never make it without creating a scrambled egg dish. When the Issei prepared picnic food, they put their own spin on it: shoyu wieners, pickles wrapped in baloney, age sushi and onigiri (these seem to have survived the test of time) and kamaboko. These foods were based on income, of course. Not sure if entitled Yonsei families would stoop to such low-class fare.

Other picnics occurred, scattered throughout the summer: organized by the Japanese Language School and various kenjin-kai. Perhaps the granddaddy of them was the Wakayama Kenjin-kai picnic or Kishu picnic. Kishu was the ancient name of Wakayama prefecture. The picnic was held at Lakeview Park, which hugged Lake Ontario in Oshawa, east of Toronto.

There used to be several community picnics throughout the summer. Usually the first was held by the Toronto Buddhist Church. I can’t remember where (maybe Toronto’s High Park) until they staged it at Caledon, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s land outside Toronto. They’ve moved it recently since the Centre sold the land. The thing I remember about that picnic is it rained just about every year (or at least that’s my memory of it). The JCCA held theirs at the Greenwood Conservation Area (near Ajax ON) or the Ponderosa Campground (near Mt. Albert ON), both just outside Toronto. The picnic featured The Embers, an all-Nisei rock and roll band. Their signature song was Kansas City written by

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The Japanese Canadian Centennial Picnic was held in 1977, attracting about 2,000 people, the most I’ve ever seen. It evolved into the annual JC Community Picnic, largely organized by the JCCC. At its peak, about 1000 people attended. With the selling of Caledon Place, the picnic ended in 2019.

those precious mounds of pounded rice. He continued until he was out. No one it seemed cared if a few grass stains marred the pristine white of the mochi. The old ladies were particularly good at elbowing the young ones out of the way to snag one of the treasures. I came away with a black eye once. That bachaan’s elbow was pretty hard. Then came the climactic moment everyone had been awaiting. Someone produced several large slabs of mochi. Steve then grabbed hold of one mass rectangle and helicoptered it into the air. It was quite formidable seeing the slab and subsequent slabs fall to the ground. Not sure if anyone was injured though most hit the ground before being claimed. It was all quite fun. Most picnics ended with fukubiki or lotteries. Winning a 50 or 100 pounds of rice is the icing on the cake. Many ended with the Tanko Bushi since it was Obon season. The women and girls were in odori groups and so had no trouble, but the boys avoided the dance and just watched.

I haven’t been to a community picnic in years. The Shin/Oyagi clan always The great thing about that picnic saved a place for me at their table was the mochi toss at the end of but their numbers have dwindled the day. Volunteers piled wooden over the years. My son is too old to picnic tables on picnic tables until go and making obento for two is just they reached a great height. Then urusai. Had to happen, I guess. Shigeki Steve Seko climbed to the top with a tray of white mochi. There Long ago, before marriage and were others that climbed, but he’s family, I committed the cardinal the one I remember. So brave or sin of not taking food. I reasoned that everyone offered me so much foolhardy. that I brought most of my food Once at the summit, he looked home. None of the Shins minded, down on the crowd of baachan but I was once invited to sit with a and their grandchildren gathered in certain clan for lunch. I paid for it anticipation. Then at some moment, with a chastising from my mother a Steve began tossing the mochi into week later. The gossip had it that I the air. People scrambled almost in was yashimbo, a real mooch. Never desperation trying to nab one of again, I vowed.

Share your experience with discrimination and racism with Statistics Canada Discrimination – it happens in Canada too. Like so many Canadians you are probably motivated to find ways that you can contribute to putting a stop to it. • Statistics Canada is continuing its series of short crowdsourcing questionnaires to collect information on specific topics related to the impacts of the pandemic. The next topic is Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians – Experiences of Discrimination. • The questionnaire will be available from August 4-17, 2020. The information collected will provide insights on Canadians who have experienced discrimination, whether their experiences have changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and if discrimination has impacted certain groups more than others. • These insights will help provide Canadians and decision-makers with timely and trusted information to help navigate our path toward a discrimination-free Canada.

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Exhibit TAIKEN: Japanese Canadians Since 1877 Nikkei Centre Visitors to the upper level of Nikkei Centre have the chance to engage in the fascinating history of Japanese Canadians. Learn about the first arrivals in 1877, the hardships of the early pioneers, the struggles of the war years, and the need to rebuild homes and businesses in the 1950s. Listen to the voices of many generations tell their story!

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First Friday of each month 7:30pm – 10pm First Friday Forum Tonari Gumi, 42 West 8th Avenue Music, diverse genres and cultures. Standards, jazz, pop, classical, folk, world music. Poetry and other readings. Enjoy an evening of music, discussion, friendship. Admission by donation, net proceeds go towards Japanese Canadian Historic Sites in BC: Journeys of Home the Aoki Legacy Endowment Fund, All of the Japanese Canadian Historic Sites and partner organizations UBC. who were a part of the the Highway Legacy Sign Project have been The First Friday Forum will be on actively working with Heritage BC and the National Trust to activate hiatus until Tonari Gumi re-opens. tourism economic recovery in BC. We felt it a great chance for Heritage We look forward to seeing you all Tourism to partner with tourism, so we proposed to Destination BC to do a feature story about travelling to Japanese Canadian historic sites again! around BC on their main tourist website: ExploreBC/ hellobc.com. This gives British Columbians a route map to actually explore Internment History where history happened. The anti-racist vandalism done to the Hope-Princeton Roadcamp sign in early July strengthened the need to promote the education of our history as anti-racist education. The article maps a route tracing Japanese Canadian Historic sites from pre-war in the Powell Street area and Steveston, to visiting Internment & Roadcamp sites along Highway 3 such as Tashme, and Greenwood; a weekend trip to Lillooet to see the self-supporting Internment camps; or a longer road trip to the Kootenay Rockies along Highway 6 to visit Slocan Extension (Lemon Creek, Bay Farm, Pop-off, Slocan City); New Denver, and Kaslo. This article will stay on the Destination web-site in the ‘Arts & Heritage’ section, Things to Do. www.hellobc.com/stories/japanese-canadian-historic-sites-in-bcjourneys-of-home

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The GVJCCA Annual General Meeting is rescheduled to August 22, 2020 from 1:30 to 4PM in 1/3 Hall, Nikkei Centre, 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby Please note any Covid19-related space and face mask requirements will be observed. For this in-person meeting we can accommodate up to 30 people. At this meeting, the membership will receive the required annual reports. There will also be nominations and election of GVJCCA Board Directors. We will also finalize the membership decision about the qualification of the GVJCCA President. The Membership will vote on the matter of GVJCCA Constitution and By-Laws Section 5.5 Director Qualifications. A motion will be made regarding 5.5 Director Qualifications section (g) which states, “be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada pursuant to applicable laws, provided that the Director who is President must be a Canadian citizen.” to amend it to: “be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada pursuant to applicable laws, provided that the Director who is the President must be a Canadian citizen of Japanese descent or partially Japanese descent.” We look forward to seeing you at the GVJCCA Annual General Meeting.

Vancouver Buddhist Temple 220 Jackson Avenue, Vancouver, BC Telephone: 604-253-7033 www.vancouverbuddhisttemple.com Rev. Tatsuya Aoki, minister Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, out temple remains closed until further notice. Rev. Aoki has been holding memorial services online using Youtube and Zoom. The monthly Shotsuki memorial service can be seen on his channel on Sunday, August 9 and Sunday, September 20 at 10:30AM. Rev. Aoki is also available for private memorial and funeral services. Please contact Rev. Aoki to make an appointment. rev.aoki@gmail.com 604.880.2654

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SUMMER HARVEST RECIPES FOR AUGUST Summer is in full bloom (finally) and if you have a garden or maybe a favourite place to purchase produce, there is an abundance of seasonal fruits and vegetables for 3 eggs some delicious summer meals. We’re finding lovely 2/3 cup sugar local cherries and blueberries, with promises of ½ cup flour, all purpose peaches and plums to come near the end of the month. 1 and 1/4 cup milk Clafoutis is a casual summer dessert popular in rural France where any number of summer fruits are used to 1-2 teaspoons vanilla (can add ¼ teaspoon almond extract if using dark prepare this simple dessert that is a sturdy custard, filled cherries) with seasonal fruits. It is relatively low in fat (except for 2-4 cups fresh fruit, washed, dried and cut up into bite sized pieces if those recipes which call for cream), and lowish in calorie necessary (Note from Lea: if using apples or pears, best to saute the content – as desserts go. It doesn’t require special chopped fruit with a bit of butter and sugar first to soften the fruit in ingredients. You can make it lower in sugar by using advance – I would also toss in some cranberries, fresh or dried, in with Splenda for all or part of the sugar, because sugar is pears, or raisins with apples, and a flick of cinnamon over the top before not integral to the chemical structure of the dish the baking.) way it is in cakes and cookies. You can use most fruits such as cherries ( the classic fruit for this dish), peaches, Grease a casserole dish well with butter. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F nectarines, plums, blueberries, pears, apricots, apples, Spread fruit over the bottom of the greased casserole. blackberries, and even figs should you have a fig tree Put all custard ingredients in a bowl, beat briefly with a mixer or use a or access to lots of fresh figs. The custard mix is made blender. by quickly tossing the ingredients into a blender or bowl, mixing quickly just to combine well, then pouring Pour over the fruit, bake for about 45 minutes or until set. This is generally it over the prepared fruits in a well greased casserole. A served slightly warm. shallow one works best. Some recipes call for buttering the casserole and coating it with sugar before adding Zucchini plants are very prolific once the summer warms up and even fruit. Then the pudding is cooled and unmolded. I have with only 2 plants, most gardeners are overwhelmed with the bounty of never done this (Lea: me neither) and it looks a bit too these beautiful green (or yellow) vegetables. If you find yourself with a soft to do unless it is cold. The dessert is usually served surplus of nature’s bounty that apparently got enormous overnight, these slightly warm with a bit of whipped cream or a small recipes may help you deal with it. Zucchini relish is good for those who scoop of vanilla ice cream or even some coffee cream need relish for hamburgers, hot dogs and sandwiches. It makes a lot and poured on it at serving time. if you put them in little 250 ml jars, you can give them away in winter as much appreciated gifts.

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Zucchini loaves can also help use up a few extras. This one is a nice lemony one that is made with healthy vegetable oil. You can also replace up to half of the oil with applesauce, yogurt or sour cream to make it lower in fat and calories. It is a simple recipe which is easy to put together, the product is moist and keeps well.

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Zucchini Relish

Lemon Zucchini Loaf

8 cups finely chopped zucchini

3 eggs

2 cups finely chopped yellow onions

2 cups sugar

½ cup each of chopped red peppers and green peppers

1 cup vegetable oil (can partly substitute yogurt or applesauce)

¼ cup salt 1 and 1/2 cups white vinegar 1 and 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard 1 teaspoon celery seed ½ teaspoon black pepper 2 cups white sugar ½ teaspoon turmeric 2 teaspoons cornstarch mixed with 1 Tbsp water

1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon lemon extract 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon rind 3 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 and 1/2 cups grated zucchini

Mix the vegetables with the salt, let stand 1 – 2 hours. Rinse with fresh water and drain well. Squeeze out excess water.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, Grease 2 loaf tins.

Beat eggs lightly, beat in the sugar and oil. Add the Mix the vegetables with the vinegar, spices and sugar. Bring to a boil lemon rind, lemon extract and vanilla. and then lower heat and let simmer over low heat for 25 minutes, stir Mix together, the flour, salt, baking powder and baking occasionally. soda Add the cornstarch/water mix, cook for another 1 minute. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and Spoon into sterilized jars leaving half an inch of headspace. Cover and seal. zucchini, stir to mix. Process in a water bath for 10 minutes. Remove, and let cool. Check that Divide batter evenly into the pans, level the top and the jars are sealed. bake for about 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes, remove from pan. Prick to top with a skewer or toothpick. Glaze by brushing with a syrup made by mixing: 1/3 cup lemon juice and ½ cup sugar You do not have to glaze the loaves, it will be fine without. Most people prefer having the extra lemony tart glaze. Omake (extra) It’s nice to give away nice fragrant loaves of zucchini bread and cute little jars of relish when you reach critical mass garden-wise. When you offer friends and neighbours zucchini the size of a football you make it their problem. But if you do anyway, despite our advice, and you see their eyes glaze over with panic, give them this column or email us for more zucchini recipes...

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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE by Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi Dear friends, The pandemic has taught us to hold our Elders close. Their wisdom that came of tragedy and hardship overcome, followed by the joy that comes with achievements, despite all, is one of their gifts to our community. This month the accomplishments and passion of Raymond Moriyama and Setsuko Thurlow come the screen. To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th Setsuko Thurlow age 88 spoke to an online audience and on Wednesday, August 12th, a documentary about Raymond Moriyama, age 90 premiers on TVO. Check the TVO schedule for additional screening of the Moriyama documentary. A link to the Hiroshima-Nagasaki coalition video can be viewed at our website along with videos of the three webinars held in May and June. Included in this issue of The Bulletin is information on a survey by StatsCan on the impact and experience of COVID-19 racism. The deadline is August 17th so if applicable, we encourage you to participate.

Sign-up details for the launch of the digitized version of Japanese Canadian Redress: The Toronto Story will be sent to our members and will be available as well on our website. The online event will take place on September 22nd, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. There is a lot of news in the making for September so check our Facebook page or www.torontonajc. ca to keep updated. Back in the day, Toronto Redress activists and the organizers of the Earth Spirit Festival in 1991 set a high bar for succeeding generations. An article on the Earth Spirit Festival held in 1991 will be published in the Nikkei Voice and at www.torontonajc. ca Kudos to the Powell Street Festival Team. Wow! The organizers of the Powell Street Festival are to be applauded for their creativity in applying the lessons of our history to improve the lives of those in the Downtown East Side with their community kitchen project in the former Powell Street neighbourhood - that was central to Japanese Canadian lives before 1942. In Vancouver, a shocking 40 percent of Vancouver’s homeless population identifies as Indigenous. That compares to just 2.2 percent of the general population. Fundraising is hard work and currently, the funds raised were close to $65,000. Oh Canada. There’s work to be done!

OUR AMAZING ELDERS SETSUKO THURLOW C.M. Board member, Ron Shimizu, who attended the Hiroshima-Nagasaki ceremony last year along with fellow Board member, Yosh Inouye, writes of the webinar. On the 75th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima Setsuko Thurlow spoke passionately about her experience as a surviving victim and her lifelong actions to have a world-wide ban of nuclear weapons. Due to the pandemic, the usual August 6th commemorative ceremony of the nuclear bombing was not held at Toronto City Hall but online by webinar. Mrs. Thurlow, now in her 80s, was the featured speaker and while she spoke haltingly, her words rang clear and with passionate commitment. She spoke of how it was a dream come true when in July 2017 delegates of 122 countries agreed to the wording of the UN Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons to which she had dedicated her adult life to achieve.

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L-R: Setsuko Thurlow, Joy Kogawa

She was delighted to get news on that day, August 6th that three more countries – Nigeria, Ireland and Niue had ratified the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Bringing the number of countries needed to ratify and enforce the agreement to 43 of the required 50. With ratification of the Treaty so close, and with Canada yet to sign on, she urged all Canadians, to write to Prime Minister Trudeau to have Parliament ratify the Treaty.

the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki she asks that a letter of regret be issued.

She has written a letter to PM Justin Trudeau urging the Canadian government to ratify the treaty and to publicly acknowledge Canada’s involvement in the Manhattan Project which developed the bomb. In order that Canadians understand the nation’s complicity in

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Centre, with a motto, “Friendship through Culture”; the innovative, “Handson” Ontario Science Centre; the iconic Scarborough Civic Centre; the Bata Shoe Museum and the “open the mind” Toronto Reference Library. Further afield in Sudbury there is Science North, the award-winning, first new National Museum of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, built at no cost to Canadians and the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, recipient of Governor General’s Medal.

TVO premiers Magical Imperfection: The Life and Architecture of Raymond Moriyama on Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 9:00pm EDT. The Toronto NAJC was grateful for the sponsorship support of Raymond and Sachi Moriyama for our Redress Anniversary Gala held in 2018 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. On that occasion he said, “This 30th Anniversary of the 1988 Redress is a celebration in praise of courage, belief and fortitude, a celebration in remembrance and praise of those in our community who fought tirelessly for Japanese Canadians’ rights and the rights of all Canadians. Redress is a symbol of shame brought to justice.,” Raymond Moriyama, Architect and Planner, founded his business in 1958. Together, Raymond and his wife Sachi, who celebrate 89 years of knowing each other, started this one-man practice against all odds. With two babies in tow, lifesavings of $392 and a past that included some of the harshest injustices of WW2, Raymond’s rise to become one of Canada and the world’s most respected and accomplished architects is heroic and an inspiration.

In closing, Mrs. Thurlow underscored the increasing risk of not implementing the treaty as today’s nuclear weapons are now hundreds of times more powerful than those of the past and capable of untold destruction – it is a matter of life or death. The Toronto NAJC Board will discuss sending a letter of support for the treaty at our Board meeting on Sunday, August 16. Full text of letter at hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/data/uploads/to-the-righthonourable-justin-trudeau.pdf TorontoNAJC is a supporter of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day Coalition for many years and makes an annual contribution to the Coalition.

More recently the 124 kilometer Wadi Hanifa Project received the Aga Khan Award for Excellence in Architecture and the UNESCO Prize. Chancellor, Brock University (2001 – 2007), Most Outstanding Asian Canadian Award, Sakura Award, Maclean’s Magazine Honour Roll, Gold Medal (the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada), Lifetime Design Achievement Award (Ontario Association of Architects and the Arts Foundation of Greater Toronto), International Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects, Honorary Fellowship (American Institute of Architects) and honorary degrees from eleven universities.

In 1970 the firm evolved into Moriyama & Teshima, Architects and Planners. Success and Raymond and Sachi’s shared interest in education, community, health and culture have led to endowments and donations to several universities, hospitals, charities and community organizations. Today Raymond and Sachi, children and grandchildren enjoy spending time together participating or cheering each other on in sporting activities and travelling over all seven continents. We enjoyed meeting the extended family at our 70th Anniversary of Freedom Day celebration and the Redress Gala. Applying his humanistic vision of a transformative architecture of inclusion, a truer democracy, with his love of nature, Raymond created landmark Toronto projects such as the Japanese Canadian Cultural

L-R: Kim Uyede-Kai, Raymond Moriyama

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THE 2020 TONARI GUMI & GREATER VANCOUVER JCCA CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC IS HAPPENING!! The Japanese Community Volunteers Association, “Tonari Gumi” gratefully acknowledges and thanks the following people for their generous donations received from June 19 to July 21, 2020. Although we try our best, we may miss your name. Please contact us and we will make correction in the next issue.

We know that many of you are looking forward to getting onto the fairways and enjoying a great golf tournament. This is it! The tournament is taking place on Sunday, August 23, 2020 at beautiful Meadow Gardens Golf Club. At a time when many golf tournaments have been cancelled, we are thrilled that our tournament is able to go ahead on its 55th year. We are following all of the latest guidance provided by the local health authority, so you can enjoy an event that is safe, and helping a great cause at the same time. Due to health guidelines, our tournament is limited to 80 golfers and so you need to sign up as soon as possible to secure your spot. To ensure a first-class experience we need to be able to prepare a bit more and so our registration deadline is Friday, August 7. Don’t be late. Registration is only $175 per golfer and includes green fees, two power carts per foursome (sanitized and facemasks provided), great golf prizes, a putting contest, a raﬄe with amazing prizes, handicapped golfers, and a Texas scramble flight for those who just want an enjoyable experience together. Three new trophies will be awarded: • The newly renamed, Saeko Tsuda Cup, for the top team in the Texas Scramble • The brand new Founders Cups for the low net male and female golfers Register and pay on-line: www.tonarigumi.ca/events/tg-golf continued on page 36

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by Makiko Suzuki Most gardeners were delighted cool spring vegetables fared well this year but their mood changed when abnormal June rains caused later plantings to suffer. For instance, bean seeds often rotted and multiple sowings were required and shishito peppers and Japanese eggplant* are stunted and unhappy. Sugar beet greens

To the rescue, a surprising winner – sugar beets! At the Tonari Gumi Garden Club (TGGC) test garden in Eddie Hayashi’s backyard the sugar beet crop is impressive and brings an unexpected bonus; sugar beet thinnings can be enjoyed as salad greens or as an enhancement to steamed dishes. As the stems and beetroot thicken their greens remain tender and delicious. A recent batch of sugar beet tops was washed then lightly salted. After ten minutes the leaves and stems were massaged to squeeze out surplus water released by the salt. Coarsely chopped and served over Japanese curry and rice everyone marveled how sugar beet tops are so tasty! Atsumi Hashimoto declared sugar beet tops are more tender and tastier than regular beet tops sold at farmers markets. As the sugar beetroot enlarges their inherent sweetness becomes obvious to the taste. While waiting for the crop to mature a second row of sugar beets has been planted to keep members supplied with greens. Sharon Hara telephoned to mention she was selling her townhouse and asked if TGGC would like her potted myoga planted last year. Sharon told that in one pot she noticed what she thought initially was a weed that had ‘gone to seed’. When pulling-out the ‘weed’ a stout bulb appeared. Sharon then realized the plant was a genetically modified sugar beet souvenir of last October’s ‘Alberta Sugar Beet Tour’! TGGC will harvest the seeds and experiment next year to ascertain if GMO seeds are viable. Several of ‘Eddie’s Organic Sugar Beets’, grown from seeds supplied by Salt Spring Seeds, will be left in the ground to overwinter and, hopefully, provide seeds for next year’s crop. As this variety of sugar beets is ‘open pollinated’, and not a GMO ‘hybrid’, the seeds should be viable. continued on page 37

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Tonari Gumi continued Zoom 101 One-on-One Class Continues in August Many Tonari Gumi members expressed their wish to learn how to connect using tablets, PC and smart devices, with family and friends. In response, Tonari Gumi have offered “Zoom 101”, an in person one-on-one class since late June. By the popular demand, we decided to extend this class free for members through the month of August. Since we expect many community base programs will be switching towards online platform,

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Roots and Greens continued August is daikon planting month for TGGC. Mid-August is the ideal time to plant daikon; late summer heat promotes germination and the cooler days of early fall promote growth until harvesting in October. TGGC tips to growing great daikon: 1. Pests: A downside to late summer planting is that brassica vegetables, like daikon, are a favourite egg-laying site for flea beetles and cabbage moths. The larvae that emerge snack on daikon root, stunt growth and render the root unappealing to the eye. Experience has proven that row cover placed over daikon seedlings prevents insect damage and eliminates the need for insecticides.

2. Companion Planting Now is the perfect time to sow a row of carrots and/or shungiku next to where the row of daikon will be planted. Start these vegetables several weeks before the daikon so leaves are showing when the daikon plant surfaces. Mixing daikon with these aromatic vegetables confuses most harmful flying insects. 3. Moist Seedling Bed To compensate for possible high temperature and dry weather during planting time make a groove in the soil, one inch deep and one inch wide, then water the groove thoroughly, with sufficient water for the groove to stay moist for at least five days. Drop daikon seeds one at a time and three inches apart into the groove. Sprinkle sufficient dry soil over the seeds to cover completely then firmly press down with your hand. Germination is fast; most seeds will germinate within 3-4 days. 4. Please refer to the ‘Growing’ chapter of the TGGC book Our Edible Roots, The Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden for detailed instructions on sowing, thinning and caring for daikon. Reminder: daikon plants removed when thinning the row are delicious. Daikon tops make excellent tsukemono or sautéed greens added to miso soup and ramen! 5. Follow the harvest date on for your seed packet and harvest at that time. Some daikon varieties can be left in the soil until later but be careful: too long in the soil can render the root pithy. Daikon harvest means ‘oden feast’ to TGGC members. Cooler October days and soul-warming bowls of oden are made for each other, especially when complemented with warm sake - the perfect meal!

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JAPANESE CANADIAN HISTORIC SITES IN BC: JOURNEYS OF HOME「お帰り」 by Laura Saimoto I remembered my mother’s stories on a glorious day in May 2018 during the unveiling of the East Lillooet Internment Memorial Sign and Garden, as sacred First Nations drumming called the spirits of our Japanese Canadian ancestors to come “home.” Set on the east side of the Fraser River, this swath overlooks the former Internment camp, now a private farm. Against the palette of blue sky and mountains hugging the east and west side of the mighty Fraser, I could feel the spirits of my grandparents join us. I felt the deep embrace of the spirit of “home.” Born in Vancouver in the 1930s, my mother lived with her family at the back of my grandparents’ dry-cleaning shop on Main Street. In 1942 with the outbreak of World War II, they were, along with all Canadians of Japanese descent, forcibly uprooted to deserted farm fields and ghost towns, stripped of their houses, businesses, boats, and properties—stripped of their civil rights. Life in the camp was fraught with hardships: They lived in a one-room tar-paper shack and attended a single-room Japanese children only school. As a girl, my mom picked tomatoes in the summer heat for 25 cents an hour. In -30-degree winters, icicles formed inside their shack. But when I listened to the stories and looked at archival and family photos, one thing struck me: the children, especially, look happy and well-dressed. For my grandparents, who carried the weight of feeding the family, life was physically and emotionally tough. But the community worked together to rebuild. They created a vibrant and creative community life. From May Queen festivals, baseball games, and even parades to building their own schools and creating their own boy scout troop, they created “the feeling of home,” seen in the faces of the children. While their house and life had vanished overnight, I realized that my family—the entire community, really— had brought their sense of Home with them, from their hopeful pre-war dreams, through the shock and pain of loss, to the resilient strength of the rebirth of a new kind

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of home within the camps. I was inspired. I was humbled. I was grateful. Learn More about pre-war Japanese Canadian life in Metro Vancouver Living on Main Street, my mother hopped on the street car and attended Japanese School after regular public school 5 days a week. Check out the 1928 restored Heritage building of the Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall, Vancouver’s new National Historic Site. Founded in 1906, this community school supported the children of immigrants, many of whom who began to settle and work in the Powell Street area which became known as “Nihon-machi 日本町 (Japan Town)”. For more discovery, visit the Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver’s Marpole neighbourhood, once the childhood home of the acclaimed author who has worked to educate the public about the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. In Burnaby, the Nikkei National Museum showcases the contribution of Japanese Canadians to Canadian society through public programs, exhibits, and more. Road Trip Beyond the City Lights; Look for Legacy Signs You can go beyond the Vancouver skyline for further exploration; keep an eye out for Highway Legacy Signs, installed by the provincial government and local communities in 2018 to recognize where 22,000 Japanese Canadians were interned from 1942-1949.

To start, travel Highway #1 to the Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum, just outside Hope on Highway #3. (You’ll see the Hope Princeton Road camp Highway Legacy Sign at a large pullout about halfway to Tashme.) Built on a dairy farm, the Tashme internment camp was the largest such facility; here, 2,600 Japanese Canadians were interned.

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Heading towards Nelson, take Highway #6 north to the Slocan Valley and Kootenay Rockies, an area that housed the largest concentration of interned Japanese Canadians: nearly half of the 22,000 sent to camps. The Slocan Extension Sign (pullout on Highway #6) tells the story of Slocan City, Lemon Creek, Popoff, and Bayfarm internment sites which were built on open farm fields. Continuing on Highway #6 to the small village of New Denver, stop in at the New Denver Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre, a National Historic Site. Here, original Internment Camp shacks have been lovingly preserved in an outdoor memorial park complete with a Japanese Garden. The scenic drive along Highway# 6 will also take you to the historic town of Kaslo, which, like the ghost town of Greenwood, was converted into an internment camp (another Highway Legacy sign welcomes visitors to the town). While here, visit the Langham Museum, and learn about the Japanese Canadian experience. In 1949, all civil rights were restored to Japanese Canadians, the War Measures Act was lifted, freedom of movement was granted; and they could return “home”. For many that was starting over. For me, the Journey of Home is the story of what home means to me, from the past to the now, for the future - as a British Columbian, as a Canadian, as a global citizen. Full article will be printed on Destination website: www. hellobc.com WHAT’S COMING UP? • Children’s World daycare reopened in June. Toddlers & preschool programs will reopen in Sept. See www. vjls-jh.com to register. • Japanese language programs- online classes will begin in Sept. See www.vjls-jh.com to register! • Historic Powell St. Walking tours are back in August! Check our www.vjls-jh.com for times.

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Milestones IBUKI, Norman Takeshi On July 23, 2020, Norman Takeshi Ibuki, passed away at 89 at the Yee Hong (Finch) Long term care home in Scarborough, ON. Born in Vancouver on February 9, 1931, to parents Masaji and Tami (nee Imai) of Ishidera, Shiga-ken, Japan, they resided at 247 Powell St. before moving to a 10.01 acre farm on Scott Road, Strawberry Hill (now Surrey), BC. With the onset of World War 2, the family farm was expropriated by the federal government. The family was forced to leave their farm and ‘relocate’ to the Manser sugar beet farm in Middlechurch, Manitoba, where they worked as forced labour for the duration of the war. After the war, Norm joined the Canadian Army, Signal Corp, and served in Hanover, Germany for two years. Upon his return, he settled in Toronto. He worked for the Canadian Coast Guard for more than 3 decades in Toronto, Sault Ste. Marie and Churchill, MB as a radio operator and manager. He was a passionate 5-pin bowler and dedicated Toronto Blue Jays fan. He raised four children in Georgetown, ON where his family resided for more than 4 decades. He taught his kids the importance of compassion and respect for all by how he lived. He was predeceased by parents Masaji, Tami and step mother, Kiku (nee Mori); wife Sumiko in 2011 (nee Hayashida); sisters Dorothy Toshiko Tahara (Mamoru), Toronto and Kay Misae Inouye (husband “Butch”), Winnipeg. He is survived by Norman Jr. (Akiko), Joe, Lisa and Paula Ibuki. A special thank you goes out from the family to all of the doctors, nurses, custodians and kitchen staff at Georgetown Hospital, Brampton Civic Hospital and Yee Hong (Finch) Long Term Home. He will be dearly missed by his family and friends. A private family service will take place at a later date at the Toronto Buddhist Church. Memorial donations can be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Thank you. SHINOHARA, Junko November 23, 1934 – July 7, 2020. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mother Junko “June” Shinohara. Junko passed away quietly and comfortably at the Normanna Care Home on July 7, 2020. Predeceased by her husband Yoshiyuki (2017), she is survived by her daughters Noriko and Asuko (Victor) and her extended families in Japan, Northern Ireland, and Mexico. We would like to offer a special heartfelt “thank you” to the staff of the New Vista Society Cranberry Cottage Adult Day Program, the Burnaby Hospital 2C Unit, and the Normanna Care Home Sorheim Unit for their compassionate care of our mother. There was a small private gathering with close family friends at the Glenhaven Memorial Chapel on July 11, 2020 to bid farewell to Junko. MATSUBA, Takeshi Takeshi Matsuba passed away in May 11th, 2020 in Osaka, Japan. Born December 5, 1926, in Vancouver, BC to Kamejiro and Jiyu Matsuba, As the first-born child, he had two younger sisters Masumi (Marie) and Mikiyo (Miki), and younger brothers Noboru (Gabby) and Takumi. All born in Vancouver, except for Takumi, who was born

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Lemon Creek Reunion August 16, 2007 at the Momiji Seniors Centre. From left: Taku Matsuba, Susan Maikawa, and Norm Ibuki.

in Lemon Creek internment camp. Tak’s parents were from Wakayama prefecture. His mother grew up in Fuji, near Gobo, his father in Miomura. Tak attended the Methodist-run Strathcona Elementary School in Vancouver, the Japanese Language School on Alexander Street and Fairview High School of Commerce. With the onset of World War ll, the Matsuba family was exiled to Lemon Creek internment camp. After World War ll, the family was exiled to Miomura. Tak was first employed by the American Occupation Forces at Haneda Air Base, then Amex, Sogo Department store, Santai Trading Company and Fujicopian, a company which manufactures stationery and printing supplies. He retired at age 78. He was predeceased by wife, Toshiko (Sept. 2015). He is survived by three daughters: Arisa Masuda; Emi Yamane; Serina Ikegami and several grandchildren. His exuberance for life and positivity will be dearly missed by many friends and family in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan. ARAI, Hideko (Hedy) Passed away peacefully in her home, on July 11, 2020. Born in Vancouver to Mozaemon and Yu Arai, relocated to Tashme where she was a teacher, then made Toronto her home. Preceded in death by siblings George, Yukiko (late Mikio) Nakamura, Arthur (Audrey), and Mioko (late Victor) Shimizu. She is survived by brother Arnold (late Sadako-nee Hinatsu), many nephews and nieces and their families. Hedy worked for many years in the Law Offices of McKague & McKague Barristers. She was a devoted member of the United Church

Congregation and was on the founding Board of the Nissei Church when it was at Dovercourt. The Family remains grateful for the compassionate care provided by Living Assistance Services and Dr. William Sullivan. Hedy was laid to rest at Highland Memory Gardens. In lieu of flowers or koden, donations may be made to the Church or Charity of one’s choice.

A private Celebration of Life with family and close friends was held at Linden Gardens in Kaleden, BC on Thursday, July 9, 2020.

IWAASA, Inger Inger Iwaasa (April 25, 1930 - June 12, 2020) died peacefully in Vancouver after a decade-long journey with dementia. Inger was predeceased by her husband Rev. Kaz Iwaasa. Details of July 31 online memorial to be announced. Please visit https://kearneyfs.com/ obituaries/inger-iwaasa.

MADOKORO, Mamoru It is with great sadness that we announce that our Dad, Mamo, passed away peacefully on July 17, 2020. He was predeceased by his wife of 61 years, Peggy, parents Hiroye and Jitsuji Madokoro, brother Hiro, sister Molly (Jim), and brother Tom. Lovingly remembered by his children Elaine (Jack), Kelly (Andy), Craig (Julia), Mark (Rachel); grandchildren Lauren (Jarret), Chris, Amanda (Greg), Danielle (Troy), Naomi; great granddaughters Paige and Jordyn; sisters-in-laws Hide, Mitsu, Kathy, May, Mickey and many friends and relatives. Family was the most important thing to him. He will be remembered for his honesty and sense of humor. He loved playing golf, bowling, watching sports, playing cards, and meeting with his coffee group. During retirement, he tried to play golf every day and he played the Lottery until the very end! He will be deeply missed by all! No service, flowers or koden by request. Donations can be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation or the Kidney Foundation of Canada. Special thanks to the staff at Rideau Retirement Residence and St. John’s Hospice for the care that Dad was given during his time with them.

FUGETA, Mytssu (Sasaki, Mitsue): September 9, 1919 – June 30, 2020 Mom passed away peacefully at Louis Brier Home & Hospital in Vancouver, BC at 100 years and 9 months young. She was born and raised in Vancouver, BC and lived there until she and her family were interned to Greenwood BC in 1942. After the war, she moved to Midway BC for a work opportunity; and after marrying dad (Hawley Fugeta) in 1948, moved to his hometown, Penticton, BC where she lived for 66 years. She was the middle daughter of Ichiji & Sugaye Sasaki who were from Wakayama and settled in Vancouver’s Japantown in the current Powell Street area. Her entrepreneurial parents had many businesses over the years including: bathhouses, restaurants and the New World Hotel. Like her mother, mom had a passion for Japanese culture and arts from a very young age when she enjoyed Japanese dance and song, and later haiku poetry as a young adult. But her true passion was business and working with the public, both of which she excelled at and enjoyed her entire life. She was an integral part of the Fugeta businesses (commercial farming, construction and hospitality) for most of her life. When she was 64, mom and dad discovered new purpose and fulfillment at Manning Park Resort where they worked for over 24 years. Mom was in her true element in the gift shop where she loved working with the public and the many young people who became adopted family. She always made time to volunteer for community well-being efforts be it fund-raising, helping at the Penticton IODE thrift store or helping Penticton enhance its Canadian Japanese sister-city relationship with the town of Ikeda in Hokkaido. Tonari Gumi was one of mom and dad’s favourite places to deliver home grown fresh fruit and vegetables used for their meal program. She was renowned for her caring nature, wit and sense of humour, a positive outlook and outgoing personality. Mom loved interacting with people of all ages, particularly young people and children. She was that friend who would always go above and beyond for you; she was everyone’s favourite real and adopted aunt; and she was the best mom, second to none. Mom will be forever remembered and dearly missed by her: son Leslay (Amy) Fugeta of Vancouver; younger sister Julie Umemura of Hope BC and son Lee and daughter Robbin and respective families; niece Hallie (Gus) Peterson of Coquitlam, their daughters Kira & Krista and respective families; nephew Vance (Maureen) Fugeta of Penticton, their sons Mike, Marcus & Barrett and respective families; niece Tracey Lewis & family of Kelowna; nephew Bruce Fujita of Clairmont, Alberta; and the many extended family and friends she touched over the years with her genuine support and generosity.

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OSAKA, Kikue (Narukami) Born on June 1, 1921 in Steveston, BC. Passed away on July 6, 2020 in Richmond at the age of 99 years. Predeceased by husband George Osaka, daughter Irene Hayashi (George), and siblings Tsutae, Yoshie, Sadae and Teruo. Loving mother of Hiroko Kawamoto (Tobo). Fondly remembered by her grandchildren Darren (Michelle), Staci, Rod (Carlie) and Bobbi-Gayle, as well as greatgrandchildren Josh, Sarah, Michiko and Sophia. She will be sadly missed by her brother, Don Narukami (Chiyo), as well as her many nieces and nephews. Kikue was always smiling and active. We hold warm memories of her daily walks through Steveston and her dedication to art-making: crocheting, knitting, playing the taishogoto, making origami and creating beautiful Japanese dolls. Due to the current pandemic, a small service was held with the immediate family only. Special thanks to Rev. Grant Ikuta, Dr. Ling and the staff of the Maple Residences and Pinegrove Place. In lieu of flowers or koden, donations can be made to the Steveston Buddhist Temple. continued on page 42

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Milestones continued ROWLEY, Grant Kiyoshi Survived by his Mother Hiroko, Father Charles (Port Moody, B.C.), Brother Wes and two Nephews (Port Coquitlam B.C.), was born in New Westminster, lived in Port Moody, attending Glenayre, Maillard, Moody Senior, BCIT Computer Systems (CST) prior to returning to live in New Westminster. Grant was a fun loving, easy going person with a passion for the outdoors who enjoyed nothing better than preparing a hearty breakfast for himself. In his latter years Grant was coping well with a mental illness prior to his sudden and unexpected passing as a result of lung cancer. The family invites those who knew and remember Grant to “sign the guest book” at remembering.ca. Grant’s final place of rest will be at Vedder View Gardens in Chilliwack B.C. TERADA, Nagatoshi June 26, 1929 - July 7, 2020. Nagatoshi Terada, 91, passed away peacefully July 7, 2020 in Penticton, BC, watched over by family and loved ones. Sincere, thoughtful, and fun-loving, Naga was a caring husband, a devoted brother, and a warm-hearted father and grandfather. Born in Vancouver in 1929 he was raised on an Okanagan farmstead with five siblings. A love of people and learning led him to UBC where he earned a degree in Education and began what would become a 30 year career as a teacher and counsellor throughout the Lower Mainland, eventually becoming Principal. During this time he had 2 sons, Brian and Ken, with his first wife, Evelyn. He retired to Osoyoos where he bought an orchard and embraced the challenge of becoming a farmer. Here he met his second wife, Sue, and together they christened their new home Suna Farm. There they grew their orchard business, held festivals and farm-gates, and hosted farm tours. Naga’s great heart and love of community shone through in all he did - he regularly MC’d his own festivals, reeling off jokes in face paint and a clown costume. Endlessly energetic, he drove the Better at Home handi-bus for the disabled and elderly despite often being older than his passengers.

member of Osoyoos Curling Club), and cycling (often in tandem with Sue at biking meets in Canada and the US). He competed in the BC Seniors Games as a cyclist, surprising the lycra-clad participants with his farm-favourite cutoff jeans and runners. After 13 vibrant years, Naga and Sue sold their beloved orchard and built a home on Anarchist Mountain where, true to form, Naga embraced the community, becoming Director of the Anarchist Mountain Community Society – a position he enjoyed for several years. Naga was predeceased by sons Ken and Brian, brothers Yosh and Masao. He will be deeply missed and warmly cherished by his wife Sue; siblings George, Carol, and Tak; daughter-in-law Teresia; stepdaughters Deborah (John) and Fiona (Jamie); and grandchildren Kenny, Sophia, Rosie, Aiden, and Fergus. The family celebration of life will be held next year. Donations can be made in Naga’s name to your local food bank.Condolences and tributes may be directed to the family by visiting www.nunes-pottinger.com TRICKETT, Margaret Etsuko With great sadness we announce the passing of our mother Margaret Etsuko Trickett (nee Ayukawa) on June 19th, 2020 at the age of 80, after a brief battle with cancer.

Born in Steelhead, BC, and raised in the Fraser Valley, Margaret moved briefly to Vancouver where she met and married Tom. They moved to Langley in 1972 and she started working at Langley Memorial A keen competitor, he loved lawn-bowling (becoming Greens Keeper Hospital, where she remained until she retired. From as well as President of Osoyoos Lawn Bowling Club), curling (an active the early 70s into the late 80s, Margaret and Tom spent countless hours supporting both John and Jim as they played hockey, soccer, and lacrosse, playing the roles of chauffeur, coach, medic, and fan. After retirement, Margaret remained in good health for two decades, travelling extensively with friends and family, playing golf whenever she had the chance, doing tai chi, bowling, lawn bowling, and reading voraciously.

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Predeceased by her husband Tom and brothers Gord and Jim, Margaret is lovingly remembered by her sons John (Linda) and Jim (Patricia), sister Evelyn, brothers Vic (Esther), Dave (Silvia) and Doug, numerous cousins, nieces and nephews, and dear friends. A Celebration of Life will be held when conditions allow. For those so inclined, in lieu of flowers please make any donations to the BC Cancer Foundation. To send condolences please see www.arbutusfuneralservice.com

Editorial continued As one of the organizers of the Taiko on the Rooftops set that opened the Telethon, I was honoured be involved in this historic event. The Vancouver Taiko Society sent eleven drummers from four local taiko groups to participate in the opening ceremonies, in an acknowledgment of the Festival’s pivotal role in bringing taiko to Canada in 1979.

those that now call the area home lays the foundation for a legacy of caring and responsibility.

The Powell Street Festival is not the only JC community organization to face the pandemic and the accompanying restrictions with a renewed I think I can speak for all the drummers in saying that after five months commitment to community. Organizations across the country are finding new and creative ways to reach of lockdown, it was good to pick up our bachi (drum sticks) and beat out out to those in need and to support their constituents. those familiar rhythms again. All four groups participating in the opening As we struggle to make sense of this “new normal” ceremony have direct ties to the original members of Katari Taiko, and make adjustments to how we move through this Canada’s first taiko group, providing a throughline that in itself speaks world, hopefully we can learn lessons that will serve us to the resilience of community. Fittingly, the first piece we played at the in good stead in the uncertain times ahead. Telethon was Renshu (practice), which is also the first song that the mebers As schools prepare to open across BC fall it is of the newly formed Katari Taiko learned when we were starting out. To incumbent on all of us, not only those with school-age Playing that piece together on the roof of the historic Vancouver Japanese children, to take the precautions necessary to stay safe Language School beneath a clear blue sky, with the Downtown Eastside and healthy so as to keep community transmission as stretching out below us, made our spirits rise. We followed strict safety low as possible. It is only through keeping the wider protocols and played with distance spaced between us, underscoring community safe that can we ensure that schools do not become a breeding ground for the virus and that the significance of the event. families can make it through the challenging months I was told afterwards that the sound of our drums echoed across the ahead. neighbourhood and throughout Oppenheimer Park. It’s said that in ancient Japan, the size of a village was determined by how far away one could hear And finally, a message to our Bulletin volunteers: I miss the sound of the village drum. It speaks well of our community, our village, you guys! Mail out day is not the same without your cheerful company and our Hi Genki lunches together. that we have not abandoned the Downtown Eastside. The commitment Bob, I have been trying to eat every grain of rice in of the Powell Street Festival, its supporters, its funders, and its donors to my bowl.

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SUMMER AT NIKKEI GARDEN August 7 + 8 | 21 + 22 September 4 + 5 RE-IMAGINED EXPERIENCE FOR 2020

nikkeimatsuri.ca 日本文化マーケットプレース――2020年新しいスタイルでの開催です 8月7 + 8日、21 + 22日、9月4 + 5日サマー・アット・日系ガーデン | 日系祭りがお届けします This year, Nikkei Matsuri presents Summer at Nikkei Garden, a Japanese cultural marketplace to enjoy the spirit of matsuri on a small scale, with the health and safety of our community as a priority. Join us in-person on select weekends to enjoy Japanese arts and culture. Join Matsuri Share virtually to share your Nikkei Matsuri memories with #nikkeimatsuri from home or while you visit! Follow us on social media to stay up-to-date. Thank you for supporting the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre.

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日系祭りは今年は、『サマー・アット・日系ガーデン』を開催いたします。コミュニティーの皆様の安全と健康を最優先に考え規模を小さくして、日本文化マーケットプレースという形でお祭りの気分をお楽しみいただけます。数回の週末に分けて行われますので、日本の芸術、文化を楽しみに是非ご来場ください。『祭りシェア』にご参加いただき、おうちからや会場から、#nikkeimatsuriのハッシュタグをつけて、あなたの日系祭りの思い出をシェアしてください！日系祭りのソーシャルメディアをフォローして、最新情報をお見逃しなく。日系文化センター・博物館をご支援いただきありがとうございます。 Louise Akuzawa Nikkei Matsuri Organizing Committee Chair ルイーズ阿久沢日系祭り実行委員長 Karah Goshinmon Foster Executive Director ケーラ・後新門（ごしんもん）フォスター日系文化センター・博物館事務局長

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8月22日（土）正午～午後1時30分、午後2時30分～4時 9月4日（金）午後5時～9時＊

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BAKER & TABLE ベーカー＆テーブル Melon pan in a variety of ﬂavours いろいろな種類のメロンパン

COCONAMA CHOCOLATES ココナマチョコレート Handmade chocolate with surprising colors, ﬂavours and textures カラフルでとろけるような舌触りの手作りチョコ

KANADELL JAPANESE BAKERY カナデル・ジャパニーズ・ベーカリー Fancy animal buns, curry pan, cupcakes and jam カレーパンやカップケーキ、食べちゃうのが勿体無いくらい可愛らしいアニマルパンなど KITCHEN KODAMA キッチンコダマ Hiroshima-style okonamiyaki 広島風お好み焼き

TEA LANI ティー・ラニ Organic handmade teas オーガニックハーブティー

SUZUYA JAPANESE MARKET すず屋 Bento, donburi, Japanese snacks and treats! お弁当、丼、日本のお菓子など！

HI GENKI order take-out in advance at higenki.ca *online pre-orders only ‒ no public access to Nikkei Home ハイゲンキ⸺＊オンラインの事前予約のみ。持ち帰り用にhigenki.caにて事前にご予約ください。一般の方は日系ホームには立ち入りできません。 Bento, curry, donburi, teishoku and many of your favourites お弁当、カレー、丼、定食、その他多数メニュー

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MINI GAMES ZONE ミニ・ゲームゾーン

Free children’s games by donation. Toys for winners! (Young at heart are also welcome!) 子供用ゲーム有り。 (大人も歓迎！) 遊ぶのは無料ですがご寄付をお願いします。賞品おもちゃもあります。 Cotton Candy 綿あめ $4

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BEAUTY SECRETS OF JAPAN Handmade soap and body care products with the ﬁnest, carefully selected all natural ingredients 肌に優しいスキンケア商品

MOM’S CARE NATURAL HANDMADE SOAP Assorted soaps, made using 100% natural and organic ingredients 天然成分で作られたオーガニックのソープが人気

NNMCC AUXILIARY Wide variety of organically grown ﬂowers, herbs and succulent plants + Japanese ﬂea market bargains 様々な有機栽培の花、ハーブ、多肉植物と日本の和食器などの蚤の市。

OIL.HERB.ANDME All handmade products that you need for cleaning purposes such as soaps, hand sanitizers, wash clothes, scrubbier, dish soap 手作りの様々なクリーニンのためのものやハンドサニタイザーなど

Sanrio Yo Yo サンリオのヨーヨー $3

Matsuri Combo (Cotton Candy + Yo Yo) 祭りコンボ（綿あめ+ヨーヨー） $5

MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT Friday Nights Only

音楽パフォーマンス⸺金曜日の夜のみ

Pico Masaki is a singer songwriter from Japan who spent several years traveling the world and is now living and performing in Vancouver. She incorporates contemporary elements into traditional instrument koto while maintaining her authenticity. By playing this instrument she seeks to express the Japanese cultural concepts such as “wabi-sabi” and “the pathos of things”. For more information, www.picoinﬁnity.com

Pico Masakiは日本出身のシンガーソングライターで、世界各地を旅した後現在はバンクーバーを拠点に筝（こと）・古筝の弾き語りをしています。

PAC WEST KIMONO Yukata and Jinbei for adults and kids, plus accessories and toys 大人と子供用の浴衣、甚「わびさび」「もののあはれ」等、日本文化の洗練された美しさを平、法被、下駄、足袋、髪飾り、和風の小物表現することをテーマに、伝統楽器の持つ古典の音色を大切に PAPER FOR YOU Origami earrings and mizubiki しながらモダンな要素を取り入れた演奏をしています。 accessories 和風ながらモダンなデザインで人気のペー筝（こと）・古筝を西洋式に調律することにより色々なジャンルのパー・フォー・ユー音楽（ラテン、ケルト、ポップス、ニューエイジミュージックなど） PICCHIE ZAKKA Various cute facial masks made from にも取り組んでいます。多文化が融合しているカナダBC州を象 Japanese fabrics! 繰り返し使えるやさしい肌触りのマスク徴するように、ギターやピアノなど西洋の楽器とも積極的にコ SASAKI ART Japanese style clothes and colorful scarves ラボレーションをしています。和風の洋服や色とりどりのスカーフ

VIBRANT & SLEEPY Adorable Japanese-inspired stickers, postcards and zines by a local artist 地元アーティストによる愛らしいイラストのステッカーなど

WINDIGO BEESWAX WRAP Sundry reusable, washable, & compostable beeswax wraps 繰り返し使えるかわいいだけでくエコなラップ WREN CREATION Handmade jewelry inspired by Japanese washi & chiyogami papers 和紙や千代紙からできた、全て手作りのアクセサリー

Please note: vendor participation is varied and rotating マーケットプレース⸺参加ベンダーはローテーションで変わりますのでご注意ください。

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NNMCC MUSEUM SHOP NNMCCミュージアム・ショップ

Japanese pottery and lacquer ware will be 30% oﬀ during Summer at Nikkei Garden. Lots of bowls and sake cups! 『サマー・アット・日系ガーデン』開催中、日本の陶器、漆器が30％引きです。お椀やお猪口がたくさん！日本からの素敵な器がお買い得になります。お見逃しなく！

JAPANESE BOOK SHOP | INDOOR 1ST FLOOR 日本の中古書籍・ブックセール

Used, aﬀordable Japanese books for sale! 中古の日本書籍を手頃な値段でお買い求めいただけるブックセールは1階のインタージェネレーショナルルームにて。一冊1ドル！お支払いは現金のみです。 MIKOSHI DISPLAY | RAKUICHI 晩香披神輿の会楽一

Museum Closed for Exhibit Installation ‒ Broken Promises opens September 26th!

新展示搬入のため、博物館は閉館します⸺新展示「破られた約束 (Broken Promises)」9月26日より開催！ Find out more: centre.nikkeiplace.org/exhibits/broken-promises

THANK YOU to our donors, members, sponsors, volunteers and supporters! Our sincere gratitude to all those who have contributed to the NNMCC Resilience Fundraiser. Thanks to the generosity of many, the NNMCC will weather this storm and continue to uphold our mission to honour, preserve, and share Japanese culture and Japanese Canadian history and heritage for a better Canada.

日系センター会員、スポンサー、ボランティア、皆様からのご寄付とご支援に感謝いたします。『日系センター回復のための募金』にご協力いただきました皆様、ありがとうございます。パンデミックによる臨時閉館という困難なときを乗り越え、日系文化センター・博物館は引き続き、「より良いカナダを目指して日本文化と日系カナダ人の歴史と遺産に敬意を表すと共に保存し、コミュニティで分かち合う」という使命を続けていく所存です。

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NNMCC Membership form Name (Ms.  Mr. Mrs. Mr. & Mrs.): ________________________________________ Address:______________________________CITY___________ PROVINCE___________POSTAL CODE_______ Tel: (_____)______________ E-mail:_______________________________________  Individual: $38.00  Senior Individual: $28.00 (60 or over)  Family: $50.00 (member, spouse or common-law partner and children) all prices include GST Check one:  FREE: I would like to receive the Nikkei Images at my email address  $6 (Domestic) / $10 (US) / $20 (Intl) per year: I would like to include postage to receive Nikkei Images at my mailing address. Membership

$_______ x _____yrs =

$ ________

Nikkei Images Postage (optional)

$_______ x _____yrs =

$ ________

Donation  $10  $25

 $100

$ ________

 $50

 Please find enclosed a cheque

Surprise us! TOTAL

$_________

Please make cheques payable to: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre 6688 Southoaks Crescent Burnaby, BC, V5E 4M7 T 604.777.7000 F 604.777.7001 info@nikkeiplace.org www.nikkeiplace.org

 Please debit this amount from my credit card: Expiry Date:

Name of cardholder __________________________________ Signature of cardholder ________________________________

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MUSEUM SHOP By popular demand, and since we took time to restock framed pieces, we are extending the Tak Tanabe print special offer until the end of August. Art print Near the Sea by TAKAO TANABE is available in a limited edition of 200. Archival inkjet on archival watercolour paper. COMPLIMENTARY COPY OF SUMIE EXHIBIT CATALOGUE for orders received before August 31, or while quantities last. Available in store and online. We are balancing our inventory between our onsite museum shop and online shop. Please contact us if you need help locating an item. jcnm@nikkeiplace.org | 604.777.7000 ext.109 ONLINE squareup.com/store/NNMCC

WELCOME BACK! The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre reopened on June 2 with our COVID-19 safety plan. We have adapted to BC Public Health orders and precautions to offer socially distanced programs, June Book and Plant sale, Tanabata mini-market in the Nikkei Garden, and July Auxiliary Mini Market.Please reschedule your visit if you are sick and consider “visiting” online instead of in-person. When at Nikkei Centre, follow posted signage to maintain physical distance, wash your hands, and consider wearing a face mask. THANK YOU to all who have supported the NNMCC during these challenging times. We sincerely appreciate your generosity and are driven to ensure a bright future for Nikkei Place. RESILIENCE FUNDRAISER help protect Japanese Canadian history, heritage and culture Donations received between now and September 22, 2020 will be matched dollar for dollar, up to a total of $100,000! centre.nikkeiplace.org/support-us/resilience-fundraiser kgoshinmon@nikkeiplace.org | 604.777.7000 ext. 110 Summer at Nikkei Garden, August 21 and 22 presented by Nikkei Matsuri Bring the joy of Nikkei Matsuri to your own home this summer, by joining us online as we share Japanese traditions, Matsuri Memories, and creative activities for the whole family. In response to restrictions and guidelines due to COVID-19, this year our Nikkei Matsuri mini-committee will host select Fridays and Saturdays at Nikkei Garden, 5pm -9pm and 124pm. Japanese food, visit the outdoor museum pop-up shop, and enjoy our beautiful Nikkei Garden. Outdoor and indoor access will be limited based on capacity and any restrictions in August. Stay tuned for updates throughout the summer. 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. EXHIBIT We are installing a new exhibit in the gallery during August. Broken Promises, a Landscapes of Injustice project exhibit that unpacks the dispossession triggered by the forced dispersal of the Japanese Canadian community from the west coast of BC in the 1940s, opens September 26th and continues through Spring 2021. Pandemic sanitation and social distancing protocols are in place to ensure visitor safety. Please visit our website for updates to the opening and exhibit programming. centre.nikkeiplace.org/exhibits/broken-promises WHAT’S ON Manga Camp – at home! Keeping your kids at home this summer doesn’t have to mean missing out on Manga Camp! Our new at-home package includes do-it-yourself Manga drawing challenges, as well as fun Japanese cultural activities that you can do with the whole family at home. Register on Eventbrite and download the package starting August 1! All ages are welcome – recommended for families with campers ages 9-12. See our website for more information.

NNMCC Reception & Museum Shop Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00am – 5:00pm; Sunday & Monday Closed. 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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Family History One-on-One Trace your family history with expert personal assistance from Nikkei National Museum’s Research Archivist Linda Kawamoto Reid. Currently, as our Charles Kadota Resource Center adapts to new pandemic protocols, we remain closed for in-person research, but for the first time, we offer new and unique distanced individual sessions. Private sessions are one hour in length, by telephone, skype, whatsapp, google meet or zoom, to guide you in your research of your family history. $25/hr + GST. 20% discount for members. Please pre-pay online, and we will contact you to make an appointment. Questions: jcnm@nikkeiplace.org | 604.777.7000 ext.109 Tue-Sat centre.nikkeiplace.org/family-history-one-on-one

PERMANENT EXHIBIT Taiken: Japanese Canadians since 1877 2nd floor, free admission

COMMUNITY Blood Donor Clinics Friday, August 28, 12-8pm For eligibility criteria, contact Canadian Blood Services at 1.888.236.6283 feedback@blood.ca www.blood.ca.

Charles H. Kadota Resource Centre Visit NIKKEIMUSEUM.ORG to explore over 31,000 items! The Resource Centre is available by appointment only and with added safety measures. continued Please 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 Basic guidelines for social family visiting residents the Adhoc Redress Committee for their support. are as follows:

Nikkei Seniors

One designated visitor from the family to visit the resident (as per provincial Health Ministry guidelines). Pre-booking visiting schedule is handled by the Activities Team with Yoko Watase in charge. You can contact them by emailing NHActivities@nikkeishc.com or by leaving a message on the Activities Team extension at 604 777 5000 Extension 2109. (Provide a couple of options for date and time you want to visit). Visiting location is at the Kenko Wellness Lounge. Only one designated adult visitor per resident is allowed in the Kenko Lounge. • Designated visitor to be contacted and screened 24 hours before the visit and at the time of the visit. Norm Tsuyuki, Wes Fujiwara, Mrs Matsuno, Mr Seichi Matsuno, Roy Ota, Misao Fujiwara, and Irene Tsuyuki visit the Royal BC Museum, November 14, 1995. NNMCC collection, NNM 2016.11.2.2.63, part of the 20 in 2020 project that will launch later this year.

• Visitors to bring a mask and wear it throughout the visit. Hand sanitizers are located at the entry to the lounge. • Frequency of visit – after the first visit, to ensure that all residents have one family visit, you will be placed on the waiting list for a second visit.

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.

• Visitors with signs or symptoms of illness will not be allowed to enter Robert Nimi Nikkei Home as per the Provincial Ministry of Health and the Fraser Health Authority directive. • Communicating with the resident by Virtual (ZOOM) or balcony visits are available by scheduled appointments. by phoning 604 777 5000 Ext. 2019or emailing NHActivities@nikkeishc.com.

The Robert Nimi Nikkei Home ask for your patience as the process of social family visiting is implemented effectively.

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society HEALTHY FOODS FOR SUMMER by Dr. Melissa Carr

HEALTHY TIPS FOR COOKING ON THE BARBEQUE

Dr. Carr is a Doctor of Chinese Traditional Medicine. She is an acupuncturist Don’t overly char the food and scrape off the bigger burnt bits before eating and a consultant in Natural Health and Nutrition. The following article includes some of Dr. Carr’s recipes for delicious and Try grilling vegetables like eggplant, squash, zucchini and asparagus. Consider swapping beef burger for a nutritious foods for the summer. portobello mushroom or a veggie burger. Try grilling Dr. Carr points out that summer is the best time of year to seek out and fish and vegetables together in tin foil. collect an abundant supply of fresh and delicious fruits and vegetables VEGGIE BURGER RECIPE that are full of vitamins, minerals and a slew of other healthy nutrients. Summer brings with it, fresh berries; such as strawberries, blueberries, Ingredients raspberries, and other types of berries, and other varieties of fruits such 2 cans (15.5 ounces each), black beans or you can use as cherries, plums, peaches, pears and other varieties of fruit. white beans, pinto beans, or black eyed peas To quench your thirst during the warm days, water melons and other types 1 cup dried bread crumbs 2 large eggs, (slightly beatof melons are a great way to to replenish your body with fluids that it loses en), ½ cup of garlic powder, ½ cup of salsa, ½ cup during during the hot summer days. chopped fresh cilantro or parsley. Chilled soups are also ways to deal with the summer heat You can take Rinse and drain the cans of beans and mash them in a your pick of vegetables and fruits from zucchinis to apples to make your bowl. They don’t need to be all completely mashed as chilled soup and salads. some whole ones will add texture. (If necessary, add a Cole slaw is a popular item for picnics or potlucks. The basic ingredient, little salsa if the mixture is too dry or add bread crumbs cabbage, is high in dietary fiber and vitamins K, E, and C, folate and po- if the it is too wet). tassium. You can use other shredded vegetables to add to the cabbage Mix until the whole mixture holds together but is not and carrots such as zucchini, squash and peppers can enhance the cole wet. Divide into 6 equal portions and shape them into slaw. Instead of using mayonnaise dressings, you can use extra virgin 4 inch patties. olive oil, and apple cider vinegar. You can use avocado to make it creamy. For cooking them on the stove top, heat coconut oil or COOL CUCUMBER SALAD grape oil in a large 12 inch skillet over medium high heat . Add patties turning them only once until a crisp Ingredients 3 medium cucumbers thinly sliced, brown crust forms on both sides. Cook for about 6 Optional – ¼ red thinly sliced onions, 1/3 cup Greek yogurt, juice of 1 minutes in total. lemon, 1 tsp of chopped dill, salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy the above foods and recipes for good summer Combine lemon juice, yogurt, and dill in a bow land whisk until it is smooth eating. then add salt and pepper to taste. Mix dressing with the cucumber and ANNOUNCEMENTS other vegetables. Dr. Bonnie Henry, Chief Public Health Officer, anNON-DAIRY ICE CREAM ALTERNATIVE nounced on June 30 that assisted living residences Ingredients 1 banana, 1 avocado, 2 cups frozen pineapples, 1 scoop may open in a controlled manner to social family chocolate protein powder, 2 spoons of peanut butter or almond butter visiting. The staff of the Robert Nimi Nikkei Home Blend all ingredients in a powerful blender (you can add a bit of water have been working with the Fraser Health Authority to to make it less thick0), Blend until it is smooth and creamy. Pour into a develop a safe plan for the residents, the designated family visitor and the staff. container and place it in the freezer. continued on page 49

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Ni kkei e Donat ions Nikkei PlacePlac Foundation 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 COVID-19 pandemic, a number of changes have been implemented at Nikkei Place to keep our community, staff, volunteers, and the general public safe. Please visit www.nikkeiplace.org — each of our organization’s are making 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 or concerns, contact gifts@nikkeiplacefoundation.org.

THANK YOU! Gifts from June 30, 2020 — July 31, 2020 inclusive DONATIONS

Hiroshi Yamamoto Sam Yamamoto Carl T. Yokota

Peter & Louise Doi Kelvin & Kay Higo Ray Murao Charles Tasaka

Wing International (Trading) Inc. Darlene Tanaka & Trevor Jones Jennie Dong James & Donna Wuest Grace Tanaka Kaoru Dubitz Anonymous Rickey & Margaret Yada Ginzo & Harue Udagawa Katsuyo Fujishima Thomas R. & Aki Li Foster Betty H. Yagai Hisako Wada Kiyokazu Godo Wanda Madokoro In Memory of Sam Yamamoto Fred & Linda Yada Akiko Gomyo Ken & Lorraine Mimura Frank Fukui In Memory of Tosh Chieko Yano Chris, Jan Yamamoto & Family Roy & Audrey Hamaguchi Roland Canada Ltd Don & Kumiko Iwanaka Nakamoto’s 10th Norine K. Yamamoto Yoshiharu Hashimoto John & Karen Wakita Anniversary MONTHLY GIVING In Memory of Hide, Sam Yamamoto Mitsuo Hayashi Joyce M. Nakamoto Anonymous (2) HONOURS & TRIBUTES Emma and Ricky Tatsuo & Mariko Yamamoto Naoto & Mimi Horita Dorothy Yamamoto Carina Abe Kevin & Denise Gwendolyn Yip & Santa Ono Toshie Hosonuma In Honour of Irene L. Yano Ian & Debbie Burgess Isomura Frances Isomura The Miki Family HERITAGE ESTATE Brian & Marcia Carr In Memory of Kevin & Denise Isomura Joseph, Patrick, Debbie Miki In Memory of GIVING CIRCLE Patricia H. Chan Shoji Nishihata Richard & Maureen Iwanaka Kachiko Higashitani In Memory of Michael & Ruth Coles Linda Kawamoto Reid JC Coalition Tamiko Corbett Jennie Dong Robert Banno Grant Dustin Yoshiharu Hashimoto Jim Pike Ltd. Don & Kumiko Iwanaka In Memory of AGF Management Ltd. Junichi & Atsumi Hashimoto Mitsuo & Emmie Hayashi Yoshiko Karasawa Carol & Peter Oreck Sadako Oikawa Emiko Ando & Hamish Cumming Tad & Mitsuko Hosoi George & Elaine Homma Stephanie Kawamoto Toshiko Tabata Robert Maruyama Michael & Laurie Bertrand Shaun Inouye Betty Issenman Sato Kobayashi Ruth & Michael Coles In Memory of In Memory of Kenneth & Bernadine Isomura Sato Kobayashi Bruce Kosugi Dean & Ayumi Dalke Tsuruko Hosaka Masako Sakamoto Tomoko Ito Gordon Kadota Kim Louie Bill & Noemi Gruenthal Dennis & Elaine Kamiya Ruby Eikenaar Mary F. Kawamoto Cathy Makihara Robert Maruyama Glenn & Wendy Hara Mary Hirose Satoko Kobayashi Robert & Jane Nimi Tom & Yoko Matsuno In Memory of Mitsuo Hayashi Miyuki Nitta Family Carrie Okano Joseph, Patrick, Debbie Miki Katsuko (Kitty) Kodama Motoi Iwanaka Weiguo He Art Sakamoto Greciana Langamon Linda Kawamoto Reid Ian Miki & Chieko Chijiwa Richard & Maureen Kelvin & Kay Higo Joe Uyeyama Tommy Li Richard & Gail Shinde Wakako Morris Iwanaka George & Elaine Homma Stewart Kawaguchi Norman Shuto Roberta H. Nasu In Memory of Derek Inouye In Memory of Ted Kawamoto Haruko Takamori Nikkei National Museum & Mitsuye Shimizu Naomi Kawamura & Kai Ostwald Gordon Kadota Catherine Makihara Sian Tasaka Cultural Centre Auxiliary Ray Murao Sato Kobayashi Henry & Yvonne Masako & Ken Moriyama Fred & Linda Yada Donald Thomas Nishio Ken & Michiko Kochi Wakabayashi In Memory of Anne Motozono Sam Yamamoto Lori North Ella Law Shirley Shoji Herbert Ono & Tara O’Connor Daigo Naito In Memory of Stephanie Leung Enkatainers Roberta H. Nasu Lui Passaglia Saburo Kamitakahara Geoffrey & Kie Low Kazuto & Mary Nakamoto Linda Kawamoto Reid Takeshi & Mizuho Ogasawara THANK YOU for your John & Carol-Anne support of Nikkei Place! Jennifer MacLeod Roberta H. Nasu Kazuko & Robert Rezansoff Chris Oikawa Kamitakahara We apologize for any errors David Martin & Mizue Mori Hanako Oye Alan & Betsy Shimokura In Memory of or omissions on this list. In Memory of David Masuhara Linda Kawamoto Reid Ken & Junko Shinozaki Masako Yada Aza & Nori Kosugi Ian Miki & Chieko Chijiwa Jim & Norma Sawada Mike Sokugawa & Fumiko Horii Rickey & Margaret Yada Bruce Kosugi Sadao & Toshiko S. Minato Audrey Shimozawa Eddie T. Suguro In Memory of Roberta H. Nasu NEWS Eva Shiho Kenneth & Rosemarie Takeuchi In Memory of Steve Yamamoto Jane Nimi Barbara Shishido Charles Tasaka Robert Banno, Q.C., Mamoru Madokoro Dorothy Yamamoto Herbert Ono & Tara O’Connor Roberta H. Nasu Charlotte Takasaki Jack & Tami Tasaka Receives the Linda Kawamoto Reid Sharlene A. Tabata Meritorious Service Charles Tasaka NNMCC RESILIENCE Joy Tsukishima Kenneth & Rosemarie Takeuchi Joyce C. Takeshita Ruth Tsukishima Cross (Civil Division) FUNDRAISER In Memory of Brian Tsuji UBC Student Services-Scheduling READ POST AT: Toshio Murao Anonymous (4) Tara & Alan Twigg Henry & Yvonne Wakabayashi www.nikkeiplacefoundation.org Dean & Ayumi Dalke Henry & Yvonne Wakabayashi Anonymous (2) Ryoko Ward

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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。

日系文化センター・博物館ニュース

ようこそおかえりなさい！日系文化センター・博物館は 6 月 2 日、コロナウィルスに対する安全対策を実施の上で再オープンしました。BC 州の公衆衛生命令と予防策に基づき、ソーシャルディスタンスを保った形でのプログラム、6 月のブックセールと植木市、日系ガーデンでの七夕ミニ・マーケット、7 月の活動補助委員会によるミニ・マーケットを行ってきました。体調が悪い場合はご自宅に留まり、直接足をお運びいただく代わりにオンラインにて是非「ご来館」ください。ご来館の際には館内の表示に従い、同居されている方以外との距離を保ち、手を洗い、なるべくマスクをご着用いただきますようお願いいたします。

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。

この困難な時期に、日系文化センター・博物館をご支援くださっているすべての方々にお礼申し上げます。皆様の寛大なご支援に心より感謝申し上げるとともに、日系プレースの素晴らしい未来に向けて益々努めてまいります。レジリエンス（困難に負けない力）基金ーー日系カナダ人の歴史、遺産、文化を守るためにご協力ください今から 2020 年 9 月 22 日の間、

お勧めプログラム

centre.nikkeiplace.org/support-us/resilience-fundraiser/ ¦ kgoshinmon@nikkeiplace.org ¦604.777.7000 ext. 110

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日系祭り主催サマー・アット・日系ガーデン

8 月中は新しい展示の搬入を行っています。「破られた約束 (Broken Promises)」は、1940 年代の日系カナダ人を BC 州西海岸から分散させる強制的な政策を引き金とした財産収奪の実態明らかにする「不正義の風景 (Landscapes of Injustice)」プロジェクトの展示です。9 月 26 日から 2021 年の春まで公開されます。ご来場者の安全のため、感染防止の衛生設備が設置され、ソーシャルディスタンスが実施されます。オープニングイベントや展示プログラムに関する最新情報は、ウェブサイトにてご確認ください。 https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/exhibits/broken-promises/

2020 年８月 21 日＆ 22 日今年の夏は、日系祭りをおうちで楽しみましょう。日本の伝統、お祭りの想い出、家族みんなで楽しめるクリエーティブな遊びをオンラインでご提供します。また新型コロナウィルス感染拡大防止規制とガイドラインに基づいて、今年は日系祭りミニ実行委員会が、金曜日夕方 5 時 -9 時と土曜日の午後 12 時 - 午後 4 時にイベントを行います。日本食や屋外ミュージアム・ポップアップショップほか、美しい日系ガーデンでの散策をお楽しみください。収容人数やその他の規制に基づき、屋外、屋内ともに入場には制限があります。夏の間に最新情報をお知らせします。お楽しみに！

ミュージアムショップご注文が多数あり、また額入り作品の再入荷に時間がかかったため、タク・タナベ作品の特別提供を、8 月の終わりまで延長します。タカオ・タナベの作品 Near the Sea は、 200 枚の限定発売でご購入可能です。アーカイバルインクジェット、アーカイブ用水彩紙。8 月 31 日より前のご注文には、Sumie（墨絵）の展示カタログを無料でお付けします（8 月 31 日以前に在庫がなくなればその時点で終了します）。ミュージアムショップとオンラインで購入可能。館内のミュージアムショップとオンラインショップとの間で在庫の調整をしています。お探しのものが見つからない場合にはご連絡ください。 jcnm@nikkeiplace.org ¦ 604.777.7000 ext.109 https://squareup.com/store/NNMCC/

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ご案内おうちでマンガキャンプ！今年の夏はおうちにいなければならないからと言って、マンガキャンプに参加できないということはありません！新しい在宅用パッケージプログラムでは、自分でマンガづくりに挑戦できたり、おうちで家族みんなで楽しめる楽しい日本文化の遊びが紹介されています。Eventbrite にてご登録頂くと、8 月 1 日からパッケージをダウンロードできます！年齢不問ー 9 ∼ 12 歳のお子さんのいるご家族推奨。詳細はウェブサイトをご覧ください。

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常設展「体験：1877年からの日系カナダ人」 2 階入場無料

日系博物館の専門家による個別アシスタントで、あなたの家族の歴史をたどってみませんか。リサーチ・アーキビスト、リンダ・カワモト・リードがお手伝いします。現在チャールズ門田リサーチセンターは、新しいパンデミック対応規定に合わせ、直接ご来館いただいての研究調査は引き続き休止しておりますが、新しいユニークな遠隔での個人セッションを初めて実施します。個別セッションは 1 時間、電話もしくはスカイプ、ワッツアップ、グーグル・ミート、ズームで、あなたの家族の歴史についてのリサーチをお手伝いいたします。 1 時間 $25 + GST。メンバーは２０％割引。オンラインにて事前にお支払頂きましたら、こちらからご連絡しご予約させていただきます。お問い合わせ：jcnm@nikkeiplace.org ¦ 604.777.7000 ext.109（火曜∼ 土曜）https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/family-history-one-on-one/

チャールズ門田リサーチセンター NIKKEIMUSEUM.ORG にて 31,000 点を超える所蔵物をご覧ください！リサーチセンターは安全対策を強化し、ご予約のみの受付です。研究調査についてのお問い合わせはリサーチ・アーキビストのリンダ・カワモト・リード lreid@nikkeiplace.org まで、寄贈に関する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 までご連絡ください。戦後補償特別委員会からのご支援に感謝申し上げます。 1995年11月14日ロイヤル・ブリティッシュ・コロンビア美術館訪問（Norm Tsuyuki, Wes Fujiwara, Mrs Matsuno, Mr Seichi Matsuno, Roy Ota, Misa Fujiwara (?), and Irene Tsuyuki）：今年に開催される予定のthe 20 in 2020 プロジェクトの一環、NNMCCコレクション:NNM 2016.11.2.2.63

コミュニティ献血クリニック 8 月 28 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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Nikkei Place Monthly Update 夏にぴったりのヘルシ―フード執筆：Dr. メリッサ・カー

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日本語訳：遠藤さやか【材料】豆類水煮缶２缶（各 15.5 オンス）（黒豆、白豆、うずら豆、黒目豆など）今月は、中国伝統医学の医師であり、鍼灸師、自然療法コンサルタパン粉１カップントとしても活躍中の Dr. メリッサ・カーによる夏にぴったりの栄養満卵（L）（少し溶きほぐす） 2個点レシピをご紹介します。ガーリックパウダー１/ ２カップ Dr. カーは、夏の野菜やフルーツには、ビタミン・ミネラルなどの栄サルサ１/ ２カップ養素が豊富に含まれており、夏場は旬の美味しさを味わうのに最適なシラントロまたはパセリ（みじん切り）１/ ２カップ季節だと述べています。夏は新鮮なベリー類（イチゴ、ブルーベリー、ラズベリーなど）を始め、さくらんぼ、プラム、桃、梨などの季節のフルー【作り方】ツをふんだんに楽しむことができます。スイカやメロンなども、乾いた 1. 豆は水洗いし、ざるに上げておく。豆をボウルに入れ、すりつぶす。喉を潤し体内の水分を補給してくれます。また冷製スープもおすすめ少し形が残っている方が歯ごたえがあって良い。水っぽい場合は、です。ズッキーニやリンゴなどお好みの野菜やフルーツでお手製の冷パン粉を多めに入れ、パサパサしている時はサルサを多めに入製スープやサラダを作ってみてはいかがでしょう。れるなどして、硬さを調節する。ちょうど良い硬さになったら 6 つピクニックやポットラックに人気な一品といえば、コールスローですに分けて、直径 4 インチ（１０ｃｍ）くらいのパテを作る。ね。コールスローの主な食材であるキャベツには、食物繊維とビタミ 2. フライパンにココナッツオイルまたはグレープシードオイルを熱しン K、E、C、葉酸やカリウムが豊富に含まれています。人参やズッキーパテを入れて、中火でこんがり焼き目がつくまで焼く。裏返してさニ、夏かぼちゃやピーマンの千切りを加えると一層風味が広がります。らに 3 分ほど焼く。両面がこんがり焼ければ出来上がり。ドレッシングには、マヨネーズを使わず、オリーブオイル（エキストラバージン）とリンゴ酢を使うとよりヘルシーになります。またアボカドいかがでしょうか？これからの季節、夏にぴったりのヘルシーフードを加えるとクリーミーに仕上がります。を是非お試しください。

きゅうりの冷製サラダ【材料】きゅうり（お好みで）赤玉ねぎグリークヨーグルトレモン汁ディル塩・こしょう少々

中３本（薄切り） 1/4 個（薄切り）１/ ３カップ１個分小さじ１（みじん切り）

【作り方】 1. ボウルにレモン汁とヨーグルト、ディルを入れ、滑らかになるまで混ぜ、塩・こしょうを入れる。 2. ドレッシングを薄切りにしたきゅうりなどの野菜と混ぜ合わせる。

ベジタリアン・アイスクリーム（乳成分なし）【材料】バナナアボカド冷凍パイナップルチョコレート・プロテインパウダーピーナッツバターまたはアーモンドバター

１本１個２カップ大さじ２大さじ２

【作り方】 1. ブレンダーにすべての材料を入れ、滑らかになるまで撹拌する。 2. お好みで水を少々入れるとさらりとした仕上がりに。容器に移し、冷凍庫へ。

バーベキューをヘルシーに楽しむコツ • •

焦げに注意。焦げすぎた部分は取ってから食べましょう。茄子、カボチャ、ズッキーニやアスパラガスをグリルしてみてはどうでしょう。ビーフバーガーの代わりにポートベロマッシュルームやべジバーガーなどが健康的です。魚類と野菜のホイル焼きがおすすめです。

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日系ホームからのお知らせ６月３０日付けの Dr. ボニー・ヘンリーＢＣ州公衆衛生局長の発表により、ケアホームにおける家族の訪問面会が一定の規則に基づき許可されることとなりました。ロバート新見日系ホームでは、フレーザーヘルス保健当局と連携し、入居者やその家族、またスタッフの安全を第一に考え、以下の通り訪問ガイドラインを作成しました。 • • • • • • • •

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１入居者につき指定された家族１名の訪問が可能（BC 州保健省の規定に基づく）訪問には事前予約が必要です。予約はアクティビティーチームの渡瀬容子までメールまたはお電話で。（複数の希望日時を提示してください。）メール : NHActivities@nikkeishc.com 電話 : 604-777-5000 内線 2109 面会場所は、健康ウェルネスラウンジ内にて。面会予定の指定された家族１名（大人）のみ入室できます。面会者は、面会日の２４時間前と当日にスクリーニングを行います。面会者は、マスクの着用（訪問中）とラウンジ入室前に手の消毒をお願いします。次回の訪問について。全てのホーム入居者が面会の機会を得られるようにスケジュールを調整しています。よって、１回目の訪問の後、次の訪問日については、一旦ウェイティングリストにお名前を入れさせて頂きます。体調不良や風邪その他の症状がある場合、BC 州保健省およびフレーザーヘルス保健当局の指示に基づき、日系ホームへの立ち入りは禁じられています。オンライン面会（ZOOM）やバルコニーを介しての屋外面会の事前予約も可能です。予約の連絡先は以下の通りです。メール : NHActivities@nikkeishc.com 電話 : 604-777-5000 内線 2109

ロバート新見日系ホームでは、ご家族の訪問が安全・円滑に実施されるよう、皆様のご理解とご協力をお願い申し上げます。

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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隣組第 8 回隣組・JCCA 共催ゴルフコンペ開催！自粛生活が続くなか、家族や親しい友人と一緒にゴルフができる日を、皆さん首のを長くして待っているのではありませんか？そんな皆さんへ朗報です。感染予防のため延期となっていた隣組と JCCA 共催ゴフルコンペが８月 23 日 ( 日 ) に開催の運びとなりました。多くの団体がイベントのキャンセルを余儀なくされる中、隣組と JCCA は 55 年の歴史を誇るゴルフイベントの開催を決定致しました。保健局の衛生ガイドラインに従い参加者数を 80 名に限定し、皆さんが安心して楽しめるファンドレイジングイベントです。人数に制限があるため、参加ご希望の方は早めのご登録をお願い致します。また感染予防のための準備期間を考慮し、 8 月 7 日 ( 金 ) を登録最終日とさせて頂きます。個人登録費用の 175 ドルには、消毒済みのカート（マスク込み）とゴルフ、グループごとにスペースを取ったテーブルでのお食事、そして各種賞品が含まれます。プロ級からアマチュアゴルファー、皆が楽しめるイベントです。今年は新しく男女各 4 人組グループスコア優秀賞「津田佐枝子カップ」と、男女各ロースコア優秀賞「ファウンダーズカップ」を進呈。イベント登録は隣組ウエブサイト：www.tonarigumi.ca/events/tg-golf/ をご覧ください。

ズーム個人講座８月継続のお知らせコロナ渦で外出するのも大変な中、もうすこしコンピューターやタブレットの勉強をしておけばよかった、という多くの声が聞かれました。そういった声にこたえて、６月より 2020 年度会員向け特別無料プログラムとして「ズームの使い方個人講座」を隣組施設にて開催しております。好評につき、一部曜日を変更し８月中も継続することになりました。今後は隣組をはじめ他のコミュニティ団体も、以前に増してオンラインによるプログラム提供が予想されます。この機会にぜひズームの使い方をマスターしましょう！詳しくはこちらの隣組サイト http://www. tonarigumi.ca/zoom101/ をご覧ください。

ご寄付頂いた皆さんへ「手作りマスクプレゼントキャンペーン」大成功！隣組のシニアが作る「世界に一枚のマイマスク」をつけた皆様からお礼のメールやカードが続々と寄せられた今回のドネーションキャンペーンは、おかげさまで大成功を収めました。カナダ全土はもちろん、ハワイにフランスはパリの街角から、たくさんの写真やメッセージを送って下さった皆さん、本当にありがとうございます。5 月にはじまり 7 月 17 日に終了した今回のキャンペーンは、400 枚以上のマスクを作ってくれたシニアボランティアの皆さんのご尽力と、カナダの日系コミュニティとして、サポートを必要とするシニアへの援助と助け合いをベースとする隣組の活動にご賛同いただいた結果と、大変うれしく感じております。今後とも引き続き隣組の活動へ皆様のご協力とご支援を宜しくお願い申し上げます。

スタッフニュース 2015 年の 4 月から隣組スタッフとして活動してくれた柿沼久美さんが、8 月末にスタッフを卒業されます。卒業後もボランティアとして参加予定です。久美さんお疲れ様でした。

隣組へのご寄付ありがとうございました。

（2020 年 6 月 19 日∼ 2020 年 7 月 21 日順不同、敬称略）お名前の誤り等があった場合は来月号の紙面にて訂正させて頂きますので、ご連絡ください。

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バンクーバー日本語学校並びに日系人会館

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BC 州における日系カナダ人史跡：『ホーム』を探す旅「お帰り」 See full article: https://www.hellobc.com/stories/japanese-canadian-historic-sites-in-bcjourneys-of-home/?fbclid=IwAR0HtQcpYPLfnrzruQTMPbP6i6mmvUQZ9IXpq tkWjb1uyTnayZ-KAmLiVNc

日系カナダ人の歴史を学ぼう 1940 年、私の母はメインストリート界隈に住んでいました。月曜日から金曜日にある通常学校の後にはストリートカーに乗り込んで、日本語学校へ通っていました。そこにはバンクーバー日本語学校及び日系人会館の 1928 年に復元されたヘリテージビルがあり、バンクーバーの一番新しい国定史跡となっています。 1906 年に設立されたこのコミュニティ・スクールは、日本町（にほんまち・ジャパンタウン）と呼ばれたパウエル通り地区に定住・就職した多くの移民の子供たちを支援してきました。バンクーバーのマーポール地区には Joy Kogawa House があります。ここは、第二次世界大戦中の日系カナダ人の抑留について人々に広く知らしめる活動をしてきた著名な作家ジョイ・コガワ氏の幼少期の家です。バーナビーにある Nikkei National Museum では、公開プログラムや展示などを通じて、日系カナダ人のカナダ社会への関わりを紹介しています。スティーブストンまで足を延ばせば、国定史跡である Gulf of Georgia Cannery と Britannia Shipyards があります。こちらでは日系人の西海岸漁業における貢献について学べます。

タシミの先へ行く場合、ハイウェイ＃３沿いにある Greenwood Museum に行きましょう。レガシーサインは道向かいに建立されていますのでそちらもお忘れなく。博物館では、銅鉱山のゴーストタウンであった Greenwood がどのようにして収容所になったかを学べます。 Nelson へ行くには、ハイウェイ＃ 6 を北上し、スローカン・バレーとクーテナイ・ロッキー山脈を目指します。ここは、収容所に送られた 22,000 人のうち約半数の日系カナダ人が収容されていた、最大の収容地域です。スローカン・エクステンション・サイン（ハイウェイ＃ 6 の引き込み線）には、開けた農地に建てられたスローカン・シティ、レモン・クリーク、ポポフ、ベイファームの収容所の様子が記されています。ハイウェイ＃ 6 を New Denver という小さな村まで進み、国定史跡である New Denver Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre に立ち寄りましょう。ここでは、日本庭園を備えた屋外の記念公園に収容所時代の小屋が愛情を込めて保全されています。ハイウェイ #6 に沿って風光明媚なドライブをすると、グリーンウッドのゴーストタウンと同様に、収容所に転用された歴史的な町 Kaslo に到着します（ハイウェイレガシーの看板が街の入り口で訪問者を歓迎しています）。この街の Langham Museum をぜひ訪れてください。日系カナダ人の生活を学ぶことができます。

街を超えてロードトリップへ；レガシーサインを見つけてみましょうバンクーバーの街並みを越えて、さらに探索してみましょう。2018 年に州政府と地域コミュニティによって設置されたハイウェイ・レガシーサインを見つけてみましょう。これは、1942 年から 1949 年まで 22,000 人の日系カナダ人が抑留された場所を認知する標識です。まず、ハイウェイ＃ 1 を上った先、ハイウェイ＃ 3 のホープ郊外にある Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum まで行きます。( タシミへの途中にある大きな引き込み線で、ホープ・プリンストンロード収容所ハイウェイ・レガシーサインが見えます ) 酪農場に建てられたタシミ収容所は、そのような施設としては最大のもので、なんと 2,600 人もの日系カナダ人が収容されたのです。博物館の創設者である Ryan Ellan 氏は、元あった肉屋を美術館に改築し、収容所での生活や仕事の様子、家族の遊びの様子などを展示しています ( タール紙でできた収容所の小屋のレプリカも展示されています )。

ＢＣ州認可こどものくにからのお知らせこどものくにから嬉しいお知らせです！様々な状況を考慮し、またこども達の為にどうすることが一番いいのかを考え、9 月の新学期からこどものくにトドラーとプリスクールがまたスタート致します。皆で協力し合い、安全で健康で楽しいこどものくにです。

北西のリルエット方面に向かうと、前述の東リルエット収容所記念庭園があり、ここには収容された家族達に捧げられた記念石碑があります。町の中では、日系カナダ人と白人の町を結んでいたフレーザー川に架かる吊り橋「禁断の橋」など、日系カナダ人の史跡を訪ねてみましょう。（日系カナダ人が白人居住地域に入ることは許されておらず、この人種間の対立を解消したのがコミュニティ間の親善野球の試合でした。）

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先日保育士が心を込めて一人一人に作った思い出帳を渡すイベントが静かに温かく行われました。

カナダ政府は日系漁者たちがもっていた漁労許可書の 40％を 1923 年までに取り上げてしまった。更に、20 年続いた日英同盟を 1923 年に破棄した。英連邦の中で執拗に日英同盟破棄を主張したのはカナダ航海日誌だった。日本の軍事力が急速に増大していることに危惧を抱いていたからだ。元日系ボイス編集者田中裕介そんな差別的風潮の中で、スペイン風邪が蔓延した。1 回目が 1918 年春、2 回目は秋だったが 1 回目よりもっと深刻な事態となり、日系人も 100 名以上が犠牲になったという。第 2 波が襲うとバンクーバー総合病院はすぐにベッド数がたりなくなった。浮田郷次領事と赤川善盈牧師などが州政府と交渉しパウエル街近くのペンダー通りにあるストラスコーナ公立学校を、3 週間に限って病棟に充てる許可をえた。赤川牧師の夫人など元看護師たちが多くのボランティアを指導し共に働い危機から生まれた共同体意識（1）た。 1918年のスペイン風邪と日系カナダ人共同体出稼ぎ労働者が主流の初期日系共同体にあって、厳しい人種差別は 1950 年代、「結核」という言葉は不吉な響きをもっていた。看護師だっ金を稼いで帰国するまでの代償に過ぎなかった。不衛生な環境下での労働による病気、危険な仕事による怪我はすべての労働者が負うリスた母は、食器はいつも煮沸消毒していた。他の家ではそこまでしていクだった。トロント大学のケン・カワシマ教授はこれを「無産労働者ないのに、どうしてうちだけ洗った食器に再度熱湯をかけてから拭かのギャンブル」と呼んでいる。出稼ぎは運に身を任すしかない賭け事ずに乾燥させるなんて手間をかけていたのか。子供心にメンドイなとだったのだ。思いながら、我が家の伝統として従った。その意味がわかったのは家しかしながら、1911 年に「写真婚の妻」たちの流入がピークに達し、族史が気になりだした最近のことだ。二度召集されて樺太で終戦を迎え、積丹の漁村に復員してきた叔父が日系社会は急速に家族中心になっていった。二世が誕生するに従い、結核で長患いし、札幌のサナトリウムで片肺除去した後に死んでいた。親たちは家族の健康維持のために言葉の通じる日系医師を必要とするそして、1951 年に生まれた僕自身も胎内感染していたという。生後 6 ヶようになった。そんな折、1916 年に初の正規の日系人医師が現れた。それが下高月で死線をさまよった。入院先の医者が「もうあの子は危ないな」と原幸蔵（1885-1951）だった。終生日系社会のために尽くした伝説の漏らしていたと看護婦仲間から伝え聞いた母は絶望した。初産の子でもあり、なんとしても諦めたくなかったのだろう。二人は覚悟を決めて医師である。下高原は鹿児島で生まれ、14 歳の時にカナダに移民してきた。地元の学校をスクールボーイ（ハウスキーパーのこと）として働家で看護することにした。幸運にもじきに快方へ向かったのは、郊外きながら卒業した。更に、シカゴ大学医学部へ進み、授業料を捻出すでの転地治療がよかったのだろうと父はいう。母は、旧知の担当医がるために大変な苦労を重ねて医師の資格を取得し、妻の信を伴ってバ高価な新薬ストレプトマイシンを惜しみなく投与してくれたからだという。感染症の治療は、結局、介護者の愛と医療体制にかかっているとンクーバーに帰ってきたのである。そして、「公認・下高原医院」をパウエル街とメインの角に夫婦で開業した。妻・信（18911972）は米いうことかもしれない。国では看護師として医療業務の知識と経験を積んでおり、特にスペンイン風邪の治療においては、ボランティアの先頭にたち大きな貢献を ●体制的差別の変遷した。（次号に続く） 19 世紀末からの日系カナダ史を振り返ると、感染爆発が起きる度に、日系社会はそれに呼応して対策を講じたことがうかがえる。1895 年の腸チフス流行に際し、スティブストンのセントメリー病院は日系人の入院を拒否した時、漁者団体は日系教会堂を病棟として使用した。1918 年のスペイン風邪では、地域の公立小学校を転用させてもらった。この経験から、1920 年には寄付を募って初の日系病院を完成させた。 1935 年、結核が蔓延しアジア系の患者はセント・ジョセフ病院に収容された。すると、ある篤志家が下高原医師を通じて当時 3500 ドルもする X 線撮影機を同病院に寄贈した。だが、体制的差別は残った。1920 年代まで BC 州の大学の医学部はアジア系の入学を認めず、処方箋を出せる公認の医者は日系社会にはたった一人、下高原幸蔵のみだったことだ。日本では正規の医者だった人は石原明之助など数人いたが、彼らは薬店を開業したり、「看護師」として治療に当たっていた。ただし、1930 年代には法律も改正され公認の医師、看護師として働く日系人も増えた。体制的差別が軽減された背景に、日系と白人労働者の協調があるだろう。1932 年に発足した 1918年スペイン風邪の治療にボランティア看護師として働いた女性たち（臨時の病棟に充て CCF（連邦協同党）は、主流社会の反対にかかわらずアジア系カナダられたストラスコーナ公立学校の前で.）人を支援し続けた。 1936 年、CCF の国会議員のマキナス夫妻が支援して選挙権を求めて二世陳情団をオタワ連邦議会へ送り出した。その 20 年前、山崎寧が第一次大戦へ日系義勇兵を送り出し、引き換えに選挙権を獲得しようとしたが、山崎の意図が政治家に警戒され拒否されていた。その後、日系退役軍人会が執拗に運動を続け、1931 年の BC 州議会は、第一次世界大戦の帰還兵に限って選挙権を与える法案を 1 票差で通過させた。つまり、議会内に支援者が多数いたのである。この変化の背景に何があったのか。

《滄海一粟》

●危機から立ち現れた日系伝説 1918 年のスペイン風邪の世界的流行により 5 億人が罹患し、数千万人が亡くなった。感染爆発はすでに戦場で起きていたが、戦争中の国々はそれを 1918 年の停戦まで覆い隠していた。帰国した兵士が感染を拡大させて事態が明らかになった。カナダも例外ではなかった。一方、大戦中、人種差別は多少緩和されていた。日本の艦艇が西海岸でドイツの潜水艦の警戒に当たっていたからだ。だが、戦後、差別は再燃した。帰還兵が労働市場に溢れ、日系労働者は職を失った。また、

新婚当時の下高原幸蔵と妻・信（シン・旧姓・草間）(Courtesy of Mike Ashikawa)

*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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青山哲也さん

去年﹁ Salt Spring Island での出会い﹂というトルでタイを記事にしまし Yasue organic farm たが、その farm の敷地内にあるトレイラーハウスで生活をしている﹁てっちゃん﹂こと青山哲也さんにお話を伺いました。

プライベートのハウスコンサートで１年ぶりに ̶ 会えて、音楽聴きながら踊って楽しかったですね。取材を始めるのにまず初めにてっちゃんの肩書きってなんですか？

そうだなあ、肩書きでしっくりくる言葉があったとしたら﹃俺﹄え！また訳のわからないことを言い出す︵笑︶ ̶ でもありダンサーでもあるんですよね？ DJ

お金を稼ぐって意味で言ったら仕事は﹃豆腐屋﹄。人生的な意味で言ったら﹃俺﹄あはは、それについてはまた後で︵笑︶。豆腐 ̶ 屋で働き始めたきっかけは？きっかけは年前に今の職場で味噌つくれる人を探してるっていうのを聞いて、ほんとは作り方知らなかったけど︵笑︶自分が作れるって言ってワークビザが欲しいって言ったらオーナーがとってくれるってうから、ほんと流れで豆腐職人になった︵笑︶日本にいる時にね、京都の祇園の高級クラブでボーイのアルバイトをしてた時に早朝５、６時に仕事終わって家に帰る途中、パン屋と豆腐屋を通るわけなんだけど、朝早くから働くその姿を見ながら︵パン屋と豆腐屋には絶対ならない︶って頑なに思ってたわけなんだけど、なぜか今、豆腐屋︵笑︶豆腐は最低限の収入を得るために週５で働いてる。てっちゃんは島生活でスローライフ︵のんびり ̶ と過ごしながら、人生を楽しみ、生活の質を高めようとすること。︶を楽しんでるように見えたのだけど。

今の時代は、﹁コミュニティ﹂だの﹁繋がり﹂という言葉を多用するけど本当につながっていれば、そんな言葉はいらないと思う。都会からソルトにたくさん人が来るのは人と繋がりたいから。ソルトは狭いコミュニティのなかで人の痛みがわかる人が多いから、外から来た人はウエルカムされてる気がするんだと思う。

スもそう⋮自分の中でしっくりくるとした言葉があるソルトがなんで人を集めるかっていうと、この世の中が殺伐としたら職業﹃俺﹄。としてくればくるほど、どんどん人が癒しを求めて島にやってくるのね。ソルトはなんていうか、、他にいられなくてここにやって来て住み着いた人が結構いるのね。僕もそうだけもうずっとスローに生きようって年以上ここで頑張ってるよ。﹁スローライフ﹂っていう定義は難しいよね。ど、ブラックシープ︵﹁見捨てられた者﹂﹁変わり者﹂︶みたいな人が来る。この島にはやっぱ何かの事情があって来て色々苦労しているから、人に優しかったりするんだよね。

汚いな∼︵笑︶ ̶

島の暮らしはゆっくりとしていて農業とかオーガニックのイメージがあるけど実際のところはコロナの状況もあってホームレスも増えてきた。ちょっと心が病んだ人たちも島にはたくさん住み着いている。雑誌・メディアは人間でいう皮の部分しか話してないけど、僕が話すソルトはもっとうんこ的なものかもしれないから気をつけて書いたほうがいいよ。︵笑︶

ファームライフは忙しいよ。百姓って言葉は百の仕トフィーノやバンクーバーアイランドのように抜きん出た事があるから百姓っていうんだ。やることがいっぱい自然のリソースはないけど、ソルトにはアートにしろ食べ物で全然スローではないよ。にしろ、人や人が作るものに魅力があるんだよね。家が壊れたら修理しなければいけないし、野菜や動物を育てたり。。。オフグリッドって言ってソーラーパネル都会のストレスをここで癒されたいと思って集って来るんで電力を自給自足して生活してる人もいる。そういうだろうね。ソルトスプリングは﹁人﹂がメインの場所だと思う。安定したシステムを作るってものすごい時間と労力が︵ページに続く︶かかる。

いや、ぜんぜん速いよ。みんなが描く田舎のイメージを僕はくつがえしてるよ︵笑︶天気のいい日でもトレイラーハウスの中に籠っを見まくってて、背中がめちゃくちゃて Youtube 痛いんだよね︵笑︶

58 月報 The Bulletin

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Eastsideから見える日本と世界第25回特別定額給付金10万円を受け取れない人々の存在その横浜・寿町をはじめ、全国のホームレス支援団体、貧困問題に取り組んでいる団体が「おかしい」と訴えているのが、住民票の登録が ■感染者数増加にも関わらず、、、ないと特別定額給付金の支給が受けられない、という問題です。新型コロナウィルス感染拡大により雇用、家計に圧迫を受ける人が社会全この原稿を書いている 7 月 21 日の時点で、私が暮らす東京都では、体で増加する中、特別定額給付金事業は、年齢を問わず、一人一律 1 日あたりの新型コロナ感染症感染者数が 200 人を超える日が続いて 10 万円を支給するという制度です。しかし、現金の直接給付ではなくいます。「第二波到来か」という緊張もありますが、再度の緊急事態宣口座振込を原則としているため、口座を持っていない人は（住民登録言はなく、逆に国内観光需要喚起を目的とした「Go To Travel キャンがあっても）実際には支給を受けることができません。こうした状況をペーン」（観光客の出費の一部を税金で補助）が始まろうとしています。受け、反貧困ネットワークなど、貧困問題に取り組む各地の団体、ホー東京都の感染者数増加を受けて、さすがに東京都民の旅行、東京をムレス支援団体は協力して各自治体、総務省に対して、住民登録のな目的地とした旅行が補助対象から外されました。しかし、感染拡大がい人も含めた、全ての人々を支援対象とするよう求め続けています。始まった 2、3 月ごろは、このような矛盾した現実を目の当たりにするとは思っていませんでした。

■真っ先に、そして最も打撃を受ける人々とは

■アベノマスクと特別定額給付金

日本に限りませんが、今回のような感染症拡大や大災害による経済低迷によって真っ先に、そして最も大きな打撃を受けるのが、もともと雇世界的に見ても布マスクを全世帯に配布したのは日本くらいかもし用や生活が不安定だった人々です。これはバンクーバーの DTES 地区れません。確かに 3 月は使い捨てマスク（不織布マスク）が不足してやその周辺でも同様の状況だと思います。いました。私自身は複数の布マスクを毎日洗濯して使用していました私が参加している外国人支援 NPO では、経済的に困窮した外国人、が、医療機関、介護現場などでは不織布マスクの不足は切実な問題でとりわけ特別定額給付金の給付対象外とされた人々への経済支援（一した。人に一律 3 万円を支給）を行なっています。何人かの方の話を聞きま 4 月 1 日に布マスクの全世帯配布が政府から発表されましたが、実際したが、難民申請中の人、仮放免中の家族、夫が亡くなったので母国に手元に届いたのはそれからだいぶ先のこと。我が家には 5 月 12 日に帰ろうと準備して矢先に感染が拡大し、貯金も仕事もなく、日本語に届きましたが、それでも首都圏では早い方だったようです。全国にも話せないまま困窮している女性など、多くの人たちが困窮している配布された布マスクについては、サイズが小さい、ゴミが付着してい現実があります。各地で食糧支援も行われていますが、それに加えて、るなど色々な「問題」も報道されました。この、いわゆる「アベノマスク」全ての人が安心して生活できるための支援や体制が必要です。を実際には使用している人は少なく、NPO 団体や福祉団体に寄付する人も多くいます。私も横浜・寿町の団体に寄付しました。横浜・寿町で毎週行われる炊き出し。横浜市内のインターナショナル・

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。

スクールの生徒たちがおにぎりやバナナの入ったパックを 200 人分も提供してくれた。（2020 年 5 月撮影）

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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

ダンスから学ぶ幸せな人生の生き方♥ Hi beautiful, ライフコーチのモレッティ夏子です。バンクーバーにも夏が到来ですね。＾＾

第３弾『ペアダンスで手を繋いで向き合う時自分のフレームをしっかり保つ。＝相手との境界線をしっかり保つ。』

コロナの影響でキャンセルになっていたダンスクラスが再開し早速参加してきました。大好きなラテンダンスができなくって腹ポテになってきていたのでまたダンスして削ぎ落としたいところ。笑

まずは自分の境界性をしっかり知ることが大事！境界線がわかっていると人間関係は上手くいくのです。

私のお腹の贅肉はさておいて、＾＾；ダンスクラスでね。先生の口から出る言葉が人生や人間関係に通づるなーっとクーー。とくる言葉が多くてこの場をかりてご紹介させて頂きます。

自分がフレーム（境界線）をきちんと張っていないと相手もあなたをリードしにくいのです。（これもダンスでもそうなんです。）つまりお相手があなたと上手くやっていきたいと思っていても関係性を上手く築けないということです。

ダンスの先生名言第一弾！『男性は女性を美しく輝かせることができた時に自分も輝ける。』男性は本来女性を喜ばせたい生き物で女性が喜んで幸せそうに輝いていてくれたらすごく達成感や満足感、そして幸福感を感じられます。

自分の境界線が自分でわかってないと相手を不快だと思うことに対して受け入れてしまったり

ダンスから学ぶ人生やパートナーとの関係すごいでしょ。ダンスの先生に『あなたはパートナーシップコーチですか？』なんて思う瞬間が本当によくあるんです。＾＾あなたが幸せに輝くことを願っています。女性の私たちは周囲を幸せにできる光ですから。

男性は女性を喜ばせようと頑張ることで満たされるんだよという男性へのメッセージと私たち女性は喜んで輝いていたらパートナーや子供達も幸せにできるんだよ。という人生の教科書のような言葉。第２弾『自分のセンターをしっかりと持つ。そうじゃないとブレる。』自分の価値観を知る。人生の目的を知る。何を欲し大事にしているのか知る。そして言動を一致させる。自分の軸をしっかり持つ生き方をする。それが自分が一番輝いて世界に一番貢献する生き方。自分がわからない人は逆にブレブレで流木のように彷徨って人生を終える。まだ自分を知らない人生の目的がわからない人は１日でも早く自分の内にある答えをみつけよう！

モレッティ・夏子 2002 年よりカナダ在住その後休暇先でイタリア人の主人と出会い、イタリア・ミラノで４年間暮らす。その際、人種差別や義理家族との問題に苦しむが、コーチングに出会い救われる。その経験から自身もアンソニー・ロビンスのもとで、心理学の知識も持つマスターコーチとなる。そして今では皆ハッピー仲良しファミリーである。現在は、ママの幸せを応援するコーチ、そしてママの起業を成功させる起業コンサルタントとして活動している。 Web: https://www.beauty-insideout.ca/ Blog: http://ameblo.jp/bio-natsuko/ Email: natsuko@beauty-insideout.ca

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続き…

てっちゃんはなぜソルトに？ ̶ 僕は日本には住めないなって思って年前に日本の岐阜県の中津川っていう所を出たの。大学で法律を勉強してたんだけど、卒業を目前にしてなんか恐怖を感じたのね。就職するのが怖かった。週５で働く意味がわからなかった。卒業を前に１年くらいジャマイカ、メキシコ、ガテマラ、ペルー、ボリビア、チリ、ブラジル、アルゼンチン、スペイン⋮と世界を旅行したの。僕には欲求というものがなくて、大きな家に住みたいわけでも、いい車に乗りたいわけでもなく、ただ音楽ができればいいなって思ってた。社会に組み込まれるのが怖かったね。日本にいた時の僕は、いつも何かにイライラと怒っていて、︵なんで一辺倒で生きなきゃなんないんだ︶ってなんでも日本の社会のせいにしてた。日本にいたらテロリストになってたかも。今のてっちゃんからは想像がつかない！テロリス ̶ トの部分は書きにくいんですけど︵苦笑︶僕ね、話し出したらドラマチックで長くなるから、書くのを気をつけてね︵笑︶

音楽はてっちゃんにとってパッションなんだねいほどで、金曜日にフェリーに乗るなんて賭けだったよ。 ̶ 金曜に島を出て日曜に戻るなんて至難の技だったね。島が嫌いになる程だったよ。ビーチも混んでて夏が嫌パッションっていうか﹁人生﹂だね。いになったよ。サタデーマーケットとか戦争だったよ。これがてっちゃんのいう﹃俺﹄なんだ︵笑︶も顔負けだよ︵笑︶ ̶ Walmart 今は島のリソースをゆっくり楽しめていいよね。うん、その中に﹁豆腐﹂も入ってる。音楽はカオスな感じなので、﹁豆腐作り﹂は決まったルーティンの中豆腐屋は朝９時には行こうとずっと頑張ってるよ。でそれを中和してくれるっていうか音楽とは真逆で僕僕ねぇ、時間にきっちりっていうのダメなんだよね︵笑︶には両方必要なの。２つがあって落ち着くのね。同僚が早くに来て全部準備してくれてるから時ぐらい今はこうなったらいいなって思ってたことがここソルに出勤してじゃあ働くかって感じで始めてる。重役出勤だトでできてる。自分にとって理想的な人生になってるよね︵笑︶まあ、一日のタスクを全てこなせば何も言わなって思う。れないから。こういうスタンスだから長く続いてるんだろうね。ところで、先日ソルトに行った時、コロナをすごい心 ̶ 配してる人たちもいて、バンクーバーから来た私は肩身てっちゃんと時間の約束は難しいって言われてたけど、 ̶ が狭かったんだけど、観光に行きたいって言ってる友人取材の時間はちゃんとオンタイムで来てくれましたね。も数人いるんだけどどんな感じですかね？そうそう、やっぱ時間をきちんと守らないと人と繋がれないなっていうのが代になってやっとわかったんだよねソルトは観光で成り立ってる島でもあるから、どんどん来てくれていいよ。そういうのを心配する人がい︵笑︶るのはしょうがないし、それこそじゃあ、シ T ャツに﹁私はお金をたくさん使います﹂って書いておけば︵笑︶将来もずっとソルト？ ̶ 賛否両論でこれはしょうがないよ。来て欲しい人もいるしそうでない人もいる。でもいい方向に向かっていると思うよ。ここ数年は島の生活が変わっちゃうほどの観光客が来てて、人で溢れててフェリーも乗れな

そうなんです、僕はホームオーナーなんです︵笑︶僕の人生は結果的にこうなっただけなの。お金がどうこうっていうより自分の可能性にチャレンジしていく生き方を続けていくかな。

その家はてっちゃんのものなんだね。 ̶

ソルトにはずっといたい。豆腐もずっと作っていきたい。感謝してもらえるしコミュニティの中にいると感じる。仕事を通して居場所を与えてもらってる気がするんだ。トレイラーハウスは５年前に仲の良い日本人夫婦から買ったの。土地だけ借りて住んでます。

３時間近く話して真夜中になってしまったのでここで強制終了です︵笑︶﹃俺﹄の生き方に興味が湧いた人は、ぜひソルトスプリングの Soya Nova Tofu Shop を訪ねてみてください。

Soya Nova Tofu Shop

こんな社会だったら一度めちゃくちゃになって再生したほうがいい社会になるなって思ってたの。だから今の世の中のコロナの状況は、ずーっと僕がこうなったらいいなって思ってた状況なのね。テロではなく形は違うけど色々なことがこのコロナでひっくり返って、僕にとってはすごく理想的な社会になってるなって思う。若かった時にこういうハードコアな考えを日本でしようものなら誰も相手にしてくれなかった⋮ 日本の友達はパーセント捨てて全てをリセットとしてソルトに来た。どこかに行きたかったんではなくて日本にいられなかったんだ。居場所がなかった。

自由に踊るてっちゃん

パッションを感じるものに全力投球したかった、例えば DJ 、それを日本で生業にしていこうとすると﹁遊び﹂って思われてしまう。かと言って﹁仕事﹂にしていく自信はなかったから、全部パッションのあるものを封印したの。でもね、封印すればするほど自分の中に湧き上がってくるからもう観念して本気でやることにしたの。音楽もやってるけど３年前からフリースタイル、インプロバイゼージョンのダンスも本格的にやり始めた。

豆腐を作るてっちゃん

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コミュニティコーナー新型コロナウイルス（COVID-19）に関連した人種差別

ウェブサイト：najc.ca/nihongo 全カナダ日系人協会にカナダ全土の日系人コミュニティーから COVID-19 に関連したアジア人に対する人種差別的な出来事の報告が寄せられています。このような出来事について全カナダ日系人協会は下記の声明を発表します。また全カナダ日系人協会の人権問題委員会はこのようなアジア人に対する人種差別的な出来事の報告を会員から集めています。人権委員会は報告を分析し、カナダ人一般にこのような出来事が起きていることを知らせ、対策を考慮しようと思います。このような出来事を全カナダ日系人協会が準備した回答用紙を使ってオンラインで私達に報告して下さるよう皆様にお願いします。

お知らせ新型コロナウイルス（COVID-19）のパンデミックの影響が現在でも様々なところで続いています。『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。

８月の仏事・行事予定バンクーバー仏教会での法要・参拝・活動は休止しています。葬儀・ご法事のご用命は青木先生へ連絡ください。お参り・法話は Youtube にて配信しています。

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。現在でも新型コロナウイルスの影響で様々な施設の営業時間の短縮が続いております。また、感染リスクの高いシニア層や持病を持つ読者の方々などはフェーズ３（BC 州）の現在でも不必要な外出の自粛などを余儀なくされているかと思います。読者・寄稿者・JCCA 理事・編集部から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・編集部は今後しばらくの間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。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。

jccabulletin-geppo.ca issuu.com/bulletin.geppo

フェーズ３で営業をし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

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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* コミュニティーコーナーへの投稿は editor.geppo@gmail.com で受付しております。9 月号の投稿締め切り日は８月 25 日です。スペースの都合上、全ての投稿を掲載できるとは限りませんので予めご理解願います。

ジュディ・花沢

JCCA会長からのメッセージ

皆さん今日は！これを記している今、気温は暖かく太陽が照っています。皆さんもお元気であるよう念じています。コロナ禍に暮らす私達は、様々な調整を強いられています。我慢をし、安全でおられ、冷静かつ他人に親切している皆さんにおめでとうと言います。今年の年次総会は 2020 年 8 月 22 日の土曜日に日系センターのホールで開かれます。安全な間隔を保つ為に 30 名しか収容できませんが、マスクと消毒液（サニタイザー）を用意しています。参加していただければ、私共の諸報告を聞き、プログラムの現状を検討し、GVJCCA 会長の資格に関する動議に応えし、さらに新規理事会会員の選挙に参加することができます。皆さんが与えて下さるサポートに深く感謝しています。会員の皆様、ありがとうございます。では 22 日にお会いしましょう。コロナウィルス伝染の中、GVJCCA は去る 7 月 28 日に 2020 年のパウエル・ストリート祭りの為の基金募集に参加、ダウンタウン・イーストサイドの住民達に弁当ランチを調理しました。また、パウエル・スト r −ト祭り協会 (PSFS) のコミュニティ・キッチン向けに目標 2 万ドルを募集企画おをサポートしました。PSFS は日系カナダ人の歴史の認識を深める為、またダウンタウン・イーストサイドの住民やコミュニティの福祉をサポートする為に尽力しています。また GVJCCA は人種差別撲滅の為のネットワーク＜ Act2 End Racism ＞においても活発に活動し続けています。目下面接による相談により人種差別に関するデータの収録、人種差別に対する対策、公衆の啓蒙、人権委員会との協力、Covid-19 任務団体の設立、法規的対策の見直しなどを手掛けています。さらに GVJCCA では BC 州の反人種差別主義ネットワークにも参加し、人種差別的なコミュ二ティの問題や主流諸団体の必要情報の提供などに取り組んでいます。また本誌をお読みになる時点で NAJC のコミュニティ開発向け援助金の申請をすでに済ませているはずで、2020 年度と 2021 年度の他の人種差別的コミュニティにおける反対活動の実例により私達のコミュニティ内における人種差別主義の結果も検討します。結びに、私達は年次総会の翌日に予定される隣組と GVJCCA 共催の慈善ゴルフ・クラシックに参加します。この募金活動により市内 42 West 8th Avenue 所在の隣組の物件を隣組と共に確保できるので出来る限りサポートしています。Meadows Garden ゴルフコースで行われるので皆さんも是非ご参加ください。今年は初めて GVJCCA トーナメント開催されてからの 55 周年を祝う特別イベントです。では皆さんご健康に注意し、ポジティブに生き続けて残る夏季を楽しんでく下さい！

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編集後記

Kazuho Yamamoto

新型コロナウイルス（COVIDー19)の影響で、３月から在宅ワークをしています。起床して、自宅で出勤、ランチ、退社の生活からはや５ヶ月が経とうとしています。運動不足を補うため、在宅ワークが始まってから毎日近所を散歩するように心がけています。この時間を活用して、オーディオブックやポッドキャストを聴き始めました。この数ヶ月で試したポッドキャストをいくつか紹介します。

Kazuho Yamamoto

Social Distance by The Atlantic 名前の通り、新型コロナウイルスがいろいろな視点から取り上げられます。ホストのキャサリンさんが一般人の視点からドクターのジェームスさんに質問をしたり、ジャーナリストやエキスパートがゲストでスカイプを通じて登場します。ニュースとはまた違った視点でコロナウイルスについて話されます。 Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend by Team Coco & Earwolf コメディアンのコナン・オブラインアンが毎回ゲストを招いてトークを行うポッドキャスト。面白すぎて、散歩中に一人で爆笑、なんてことがよくあります（笑）コナンもいつかのエピソードで笑うことは肺にいい！なんてジョークを言っていましたが、コロナ禍で落ち込んだ時など、コナンとゲストのユーモアが励ましてくれますよ。 The Michelle Obama Podcast by Higher Ground つい最近始まったミシェル・オバマのポッドキャスト。元アメリカ大統領バラク・オバマのファーストレディーがゲストスピーカーとパンデミック、政治、人種差別など、タイムリーな話題について語ります。また、彼女の家族や恋愛と言ったプライベートな面についてもトークが。現在２エピソードがリリースされていて、今後のリリースが楽しみです。 They & Us by CBC Radio ジェンダー・アイデンティティーをテーマにしたポッドキャスト。CBCレポーターのフェイス・ファンダルが毎回ゲストを招き、代名詞（pronoun、he/she/they）についてやノンバイナリー（男女の性別のどちらにもあてはまらないジェンダーのこと）についてインタビューを通じて様々なストーリーが紹介されます。秋からオフィスに徐々に戻るようになりそうですが、今後も通勤時にいろいろなオーディオブックやポッドキャストを試したいと思っています。お勧めがあればぜひ教えてくださいね

「ソルトスプリングアイランド」

KAO (a.k.a. SleeplessKao)

音楽家さんたちとソルトスプリングアイランドに行ってきました。泊まったお家は、昨年『MEETS』でも紹介した Yasue organic farm。ゲートを開けると羊たちと共にアルパカがお迎えしてくれた。コロナの事情があるので本当にお友達だけを呼んでの小さなハウスコンサート。

KAO

それでも２日目は 50 人限定で大いに盛り上がりました。音楽にのせて自由に気持ちよさそうに踊るてっちゃん。今月号の『MEETS』を是非読んでみてください。踊っているてっちゃんは彼の世界観そのものです。

アルパカと私

私もてっちゃんのように軽やかに踊りたいな、と思いちょっとだけてっちゃんと一緒に踊ってはみたものの、他人の目が気になり、照れが出て踊ることを続けるのができませんでした。人目を気にせず自由に好きなように手足を動かし、自分に気持ちの良いことをするっていうのはなかなか難しい。踊りと生き方って似ているな。次にてっちゃんと一緒に踊る機会までに頑張って踊りも人生も修行をしなければ。

てっちゃんと踊る私

コロナの状況下、バンクーバー市内で私はストレスを感じていたのだけれど、オーガニックで美味しい食材や人や動物、音楽に本当に癒されました。こんな機会を与えてくれた友人、知人に感謝です。そしてちょっと宣伝、このファンタジックなソルトでの経験を絵で表現できたらいいな、ってことで９月にキツラノにあるブティック「Branches & Knots」で個展をします。アルパカの絵もお目見えするかもなので乞うご期待なのです。：）

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