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A Journal of Japanese Canadian Community, History & Culture www.jccabulletin-geppo.ca SSN 1182-0225 v.64 No.08 August 2022 Circulation: 4,100 Canada Post Agreement Number 400-50782 G V J C CA

The Bulletin/Geppo is published monthly by the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA).

Masami Hanashiro of Southern Wave Okinawan Music and Dance at Greenwood Reunion

Greenwood’s 80th Anniversary Commemoration And Concert 2 GVJCCA at the Powell Street Festival 5

Managing Editor John Endo Greenaway john@bigwavedesign.net

Nomination of Gvjcca Directors For The 2022-2023 Board 5 Abuse Survivors Raise Concerns about True Legacy of Kogawa House 6

Japanese Editors Kazuho Yamamoto Kaori Kasai editor.geppo@gmail.com

GVJCCA Annual General Meeting 7 Memories of Ucluelet 8 Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society Survey 10

Advertising Manager Anne Jew annejew@telus.net

Powell Street Festival Update 11 JC Heritage Cooking Classes 13

Distribution Manager Michael Tora Speier

NAJC President’s Message 17 Community Calendar 18

JCCA Donations / Editorial 14 JCCA President’s Message 15 Community Kitchen 20 Nikkei Matsuri 2022 33

Administrative Assistant Mitsuyo Okamoto JCCA Board Of Directors Cary Sakiyama President Peter Wallace Vice President Wendy Matsubuchi Secretary Ron Nishimura Treasurer April Shimizu Director May Hamanishi Director Nikki Asano Director Judy Hanazawa Director Liz Nunoda Director

One Nikkei Voice 29 Toronto NAJC Update 30 Vancouver Japanese Language School 31 Tonari Gumi Corner 32 Our Edible Roots 33 Milestones 35 Nikkei Place Update 37 Geppo 40

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GREENWOOD’S 80TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION AND CONCERT by Chuck Tasaka Mission accomplished – the 80th Anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment Reunion Concert, held July 16, 2022 in Greenwood, BC, was a resounding success!

The early immigrants, the Issei, are now gone. The Nisei are now in their 90s and even 100s. The Sansei will be the next elders.

80 years after the incarceration, there now only about 6,000 camp survivors left. The Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness Fund is intended to help give these survivors a sense of emotional comfort in With people shaking hands, embracing each other their twilight years. This reunion concert was the result of consultation with hugs and big smiles all around, there was a warm with the community through the NAJC (National Association of Japanese ambience of camaraderie and friendship. The goals of Canadians). the Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness The City of Greenwood is celebrating its 125th birthday this year, Fund were achieved many times over. having incorporated on July 12, 1897. As this coincided with the 80th How significant was this event, held in the first internment camp to open in 1942? First of all, there were some 23,000 Japanese Canadians in Canada prior to 1942. Most lived along the coastal section of BC. When the forced removal began in the spring of 1942, all Japanese Canadians were relocated beyond the 100-mile “protected zone”, the majority to so-called internment camps. Mayor W.E. McArthur requested that Japanese Canadians be brought to Greenwood in order to help the local economy and the town began welcoming internees on April 26, 1942. Families were assigned to empty hotels and business buildings with crowded rooms, communal kitchens and shared plumbing. Each building was numbered ‘internment building number one,’ etc. Greenwood received just over 1,200 Japanese Canadians in 1942. After 1945, when Japanese Canadians were told, “go east of the Rockies or be deported to Japan,” most were forced farther east beyond the Rockies. Nearly 4,000 went to Japan. Of those that relocated east of the Rockies, fewer than half returned to the coast following the lifting of restrictions in 1949.

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Anniversary of the Japanese Canadian internment, it gave impetus to Greenwood organizers to put on a weekend showcasing the rich mining history along with the commemoration of the first internment site.

On Friday evening, July 15, the Greenwood Museum started off with a meet 'n’ greet event as an ice breaker. Many former Greenwood residents made their furusato (“hometown”) journey to Greenwood for the weekend. The ice was already melted. The mixed crowd immediately embraced each other so much that the emcee didn't need to give an introductory welcome speech. Saturday, July 16 was the big event. McArthur Centre was decorated with cherry blossoms all around the room and lanterns hanging from above. Japanese kimono, yukata and haori adorned the floor space. The 80th anniversary banner hung proudly on the wall. When the story of Greenwood's internment history was told, eleven Japanese Canadians interned in 1942 were honoured as residents who never left Greenwood. That is because Mayor W.E. McArthur Sr and the city of Greenwood fought to not have their new neighbours be forced to relocate again in 1945 when the governments began closing the camps. It’s hard to imagine that there are Japanese Canadians still living in a former internment camp. They are Nancy (Asahina) Yamamura, Irene Terada, Hana (Hatanaka) Pasco, Martha (Honda) Johnson, Matsue

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(Ishida) Oye, Sylvia (Shigematsu) Oye, Fumio Iizuka, Joe Ishida, Shig Uyeyama, Gordon Shimizu and Johnny Ikari, the oldest at 94. At the reunion, Shizu (Nishimura) Omae was oldest at 97 and second was Mrs. H. Imai at 93. Oldest outof-province was Bob Murakami at 90 from Alberta. Farthest away was Damien Tanaka from Boston, Massachusetts. Farthest south was Kim and Mary (Nakagawa/Tasaka) Marti of Ventura, California. The reunion capped off with some fabulous entertainment. First off, Kayo Miki, a classical violinist from San Francisco paid tribute to her father Ichio Miki with a video performance. Kayo was part of Quartet S.F. Group that was twice Grammy nominated in the classical genre. Next was our 'local' taiko group, Yamabiko Taiko of Kelowna. The Southern Wave Okinawan Music and Dance Society showcased Okinawan culture. The group began with a 15th Century welcome dance called “Yotsutake” that was reserved only for the highest dignitaries mainly from China. They followed up with “Tanchame”, a fishermen’s dance, and the grand finale “Mirukumunari” featuring eisa taiko. We also had a multi-talented 15-year old singer/songwriter, guitarist, pianist and dancer Tamika Roberts sing classic Japanese songs, her own original and popular retro hits. The jammed packed audience went home with a sense of nostalgia and euphoria as reflected in the following comments. “It was wonderful and beautiful and very emotional. I have been telling my friends here in Calgary about it

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and I keep choking up part way through. In so many ways, we were fortunate to have lived through it and survived.” – Jean (Clark) Higashi and son Shawn. “Words cannot express the amazing 80th Anniversary gathering of the Japanese Canadians whom most of the outstanding ones....our grandparents and parents are now spiritually present never to be forgotten. Thank you in making the fruition of the time span served by our ancestors into two days of extra ordinary recollection and inter-twining the past, present and future.” – Patsy (Yodogawa) Wood. “A couple of Southern Wave Okinawan Music and Dance Society members said that the Greenwood experience they had was one of the best times they've had in Canada. They enjoyed meeting new people, hearing about the internment stories and finished off their stay with a jam session, singing and playing their sanshin.” – David and Shelley Hamaguchi. For me, the 80th anniversary brought back so many people from out of province, United States and many more from within BC to bring former Greenwood JC survivors all together to rekindle and to reminisce with old friends and meeting 'new' friends. To see so many smiling faces gave me a sense of satisfaction that the event was well worth the effort. Moreover, to see so many descendants of the early Greenwood hakujin families making the trek to come specifically for the 80th was another heart-warming scene. The proof is in the pudding of how well the two cultures embraced each other. W.E. McArthur Sr. descendants were very well represented. One great-granddaughter commented that she is proud to be a McArthur. Sadly for some, this may be their last reunion. For those who attended, they had that expression on their faces, “So glad we made it to this reunion.”

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GVJCCA AT THE POWELL STREET FESTIVAL The GVJCCA congratulates the Powell Street Festival on its return to a fully in-person event. It was wonderful to see the park and surrounding streets filled with happy festival-goers. Thanks to all who dropped by the GVJCCA booth and those who purchased SPAM musubi from our food booth. Your support is greatly appreciated! Thanks to Lorene Oikawa, Dan Tokawa, Judy Hanazawa, Cary Sakiyama, Yoshie Bancroft, Ted Takahashi and Doronn Dalzell for taking shifts at the GVJCCA/Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society booth. A huge thank you as well to our donors and volunteers who made our food booth possible. A full list will be printed in the September Bulletin.

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ABUSE SURVIVORS RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT TRUE LEGACY OF KOGAWA HOUSE Survivors of abuse by Kogawa’s father were not consulted about a heritage application for the family home After receiving his confession, the Anglican Church retired Nakayama News of a heritage application for acclaimed author as a priest, but did not report his Joy Kogawa’s childhood home has stirred deep pain crimes to the police. for some Japanese Canadians for whom the house, said he doesn’t and its iconic cherry tree, are symbols of something Wallace personally oppose the heritage far darker than Kogawa’s literary legacy. designation, but the group wants Esther Matsubuchi is 85 years old. She and her open acknowledgement of the brothers grew up in Marpole, not far from the small history from the city in its heritage bungalow that has become a retreat for writers. documents. “It is also the former home of (Kogawa’s) father, a On the website of the Land priest pedophile who molested hundreds of children,” Conservancy of B.C., the house is said Matsubuchi. lauded as a “a literary landmark Matsubuchi is not the type to speak out about private and symbol of hope, healing and matters, but said, “This struck a nerve.” reconciliation for all Canadians.” by Denise Ryan

Four of her brothers were abused by Kogawa’s father, Gordon Goichi Nakayama. Now she wonders why her family, and other survivors of Nakayama’s abuse, were not consulted about the heritage application, which goes before city council on July 12.

“We are now working to position Historic Joy Kogawa House as a site of trauma and healing for the unspeakable truths that happened at this house before the war,” Metten said.

In 2015, the Anglican church apologized for Nakayama’s behaviour, and for not coming forward about his abuse. The “There can be no reconciliation Anglican Church of Canada without truth,” said Wallace. “We provided a settlement of $600,000 want open disclosure when we to the National Association are discussing Kogawa House, that of Japanese Canadians for a history of abuse needs to be told.” “healing fund” for those impacted Wallace said he admires Joy by Nakayama’s abuse, but Wallace Kogawa, her work, and all that she said it has been difficult for has done for the community. survivors to come forward.

Peter Wallace, a representative for the Japanese Canadian Working Group, an organization that supports healing for survivors of Nakayama’s sexual “I have (Kogawa’s novel) Obasan, abuse, said, “A lot of members of the community see and in it is a note to my mother from the house as a reminder of that abuse.” my grandma saying she hopes this The report to council mentions the house’s “national book can answer some questions significance as a symbol of the discrimination about our history.” experience by Japanese Canadians,” including their forcible removal and internment, and cites the house’s cultural value for its connection to author Joy Kogawa.

The statement also acknowledges that Nakayama had abused children while he lived on the property, and “brought considerable harm to the Japanese Canadian community.”

It did, said Wallace.

“This isn’t about Joy Kogawa — Joy’s work helped me and my mom understand our history. It’s about It contains no reference to the fact that Nakayama the structure that is inextricably abused children while he owned and lived in the linked to the house’s dark history, house. and that history’s exclusion from “Nobody ever asked any Japanese Canadian the heritage application.” organization what the house meant to us before Anne Marie Metten, founding applying for this heritage designation,” said Wallace. director at Joy Kogawa House, “Kogawa House has positioned itself as spokespeople provided a statement to Postmedia for Japanese Canadian history, but their history is just which reads, in part, that Nakayama one part of the story. For many Japanese Canadians, “did many good things, including the history presented about Kogawa House doesn’t helping to build the Church of reflect their experience.” Ascension in Kitsilano and the

“It’s a complex history, with internment, abuse, racism. People have lived with this trauma for so long,” said Wallace. Wallace hopes for more healing for survivors and their families. “The healing fund is open for survivors and we want all members of the community to know they can come forward, and we will provide the assistance they need and confidentiality.” This piece originally appeared in the Vancouver Sun and is reprinted with permission

Editor’s note: The July 12, 2022, Vancouver City Council planned vote on granting Kogawa House class A heritage status was Nakayama abused an estimated 300 boys. In 1994, Japanese Language School in removed from the council’s Nakayama confessed in a letter to the Anglican Marpole.” agenda and postponed until after Church, excusing his crimes as “sexual bad behaviour.” the civic election on October 15, 2022.

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NOMINATION OF GVJCCA DIRECTORS FOR THE 2022-2023 BOARD GVJCCA Board Director Nomination and By-Law Qualification Information If you are a GVJCCA member and have an interest, or if you know a member who is interested in becoming a Board Director, please forward nomination information to gvjcca@gmail.com. Here are information points which you could include in the nomination information: GVJCCA PURPOSES It’s important for anyone who becomes a GVJCCA Board Director to know • Areas of GVJCCA programs which interest you and which might make your volunteer work as a Board what the Purposes of the GVJCCA are according to the Constitution. Here Director enjoyable; are the Purposes: • To protect and promote the past, present, and future legal rights and • What your work or life experience is and why you are interested in becoming a GVJCCA Board Director democratic freedoms of all persons in Canada regardless of race, religion, colour, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, and marital, family GVJCCA By-law information about Director or economic status; qualifications • To promote the enjoyment, appreciation, and study of the arts and 1. Be at least 18 years of age; culture of Japanese Canadians through the organization of community 2. Be a Member in good standing; and cultural programs, and hosting and co-hosting of community and 3. Not found by a court of being bankrupt or incapable cultural events; of managing your affairs; • To educate the Canadian public about and to preserve the history and 4. Not convicted of an offence in connection with the cultural heritage of Japanese Canadians; promotion, formation or management of a corpo• To develop and maintain a communications network with multicultural ration or unincorporated entity, or of an offence societies in Canada and the world; involving fraud; • To support the cultural identity, continuing social development, and 5. Be of Japanese descent or partially Japanese dewell-being of Japanese Canadians at the individual, family and comscent or married to a person of Japanese descent; munity levels; 6. Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of • To support the awareness of citizens of Canada as to the duties and Canada responsibilities inherent in Canadian citizenship; Thank you for your interest in nominations for becom• To publish a journal as a forum for issues significant to its members, ing a Director for the 2021-2022 GVJCCA board. We persons with Japanese ancestry, and interested others. look forward to receiving your nomination. The GVJCCA Board is currently seeking nominees for VJ C C Afor the new term which will begin after the the GBoard Annual General Meeting on September 17, 2022. We are asking our membership to nominate members for serving on the GVJCCA Board.

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MEMORIES OF UCLUELET – REMOVAL OF JAPANESE CANADIANS 80 YEARS LATER by Paul Kariya Between 1920 and 1941, every summertime, Ucluelet harbour was filled with hundreds of salmon trollers, the majority of them owned by people of Japanese ancestry.

Little has been spoken about what the removal of Japanese Canadians meant to the First Nations and white communities. Economically, the dominant fish buyer had been the Japanese Fishermen’s Coop which had to terminate operations abruptly. Now where were the white and First Even after the government restricted the number Nation fishermen to sell their catch? The Ucluelet school lost one-half of of fishing licences that could be held by people its pupils – what was the impact on the teaching, but most importantly of Japanese ancestry in Ucluelet to fifty-two, the what happened with the children who lost their friends? The removal of majority of residents in the village were Japanese, Japanese Canadians impacted the whole Ucluelet community. followed by white homesteaders and First Nations We know the devastating impact that removal had on Japanese people. The Japanese Canadians of Ucluelet lived in Canadians, but what was the impact on the folks remaining in Ucluelet? six settlements around the harbour and had all the What about friendships and neighbours and implications for everyday institutions of a well-established community: small living? For some, it has been left unspoken ever since. businesses, schools, and places of worship. Japanese Canadians, First Nations and other residents, under the banner Similar communities of Japanese Canadians of the Ucluelet Historical Society are working on a commemorative established themselves in Tofino, Clayoquot and project that celebrates the West Coast Japanese Canadian communities Bamfield. The west coast was a major hub for but within a context of reconciliation and moving forward especially with Japanese Canadians based around the salmon troll First Nations communities. fishery (hook and line). The Ucluelet Historical Society is hosting an all-day workshop in-person And then in 1942, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, all and via zoom to hear from First Nation, white homesteader and Japanese Japanese Canadians were removed. About one-half Canadian residents and former residents and their survivors to share of the total population of Ucluelet disappeared, taken accounts of what it meant to be removed or witness the removal. While away to internment centres and many fishermen to some painful memories might be recalled, hopefully stories of friendships POW camps in Petawawa and Angler Ontario. across social boundaries and cooperation between communities will Incomes and livelihood were gone. Education for also emerge. children stopped. The uncertainty of “what’s next” hung heavy between 1942 and 1949, after which restrictions on Japanese Canadians were lifted.

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The all-day workshop is planned for Saturday October 29, 2022, at the Ucluelet Community Centre. For those planning to attend in person, please bring your photos, diaries and lots of memories. Please stay tuned and visit the Ucluelet Historical Society website for updates.

I am fortunate because my mom and dad were able to return to Ucluelet in 1951 and I grew up on the ocean salmon trolling. While the old wharfs and floats have been replaced and no one makes a living by trolling anymore, this is a magical place with many stories yet to be told. Come visit and join the locals with your stories and memories. Contact: visit the UHS website ucluelethistory.ca or email Paul Kariya at kariya@shaw.ca

Letter to the Editor Thanks for your contributions to The Bulletin. My 92year old Nisei father is a subscriber and passes them along to me, the eldest family Sansei :-) Your May editorial about on-going work is important. We, the Sansei and beyond, are certainly beneficiaries of the values and role models of our elders. Through our work we can ensure this legacy continues. I’ve heard many stories about internment “post traumatic growth”. My grandparents ensured the family stayed together during the internment and they all worked together in the sugar beet fields. They raised their children to understand that the government can’t take away a good education.

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In 1942, during the Second World War, 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly uprooted, dispossessed, incarcerated and exiled from the west coast. The forced exile extended until 1949, four years after the end of the war that had been used to support these racist and unjust actions. About 8,000 Japanese Canadians, mostly residing outside of Vancouver, were transported to Hastings Park where they were detained in inhumane conditions for weeks or months before being sent east to internment/incarceration camps, road camps, work camps, and sugar beet farms. Some died in the makeshift hospital at Hastings Park because they were denied access to regular hospitals based on ethnicity. While most were removed from Hastings Park by October 1942 and forced further east, over 100 individuals remained in the makeshift hospital until Spring 1943.

update Powell Street Festival 2022 The 46th Annual Powell Street Festival, held July 30 and 31, was a resounding success! Thank-you to everyone who came along to Oppenheimer Park and Paueru Gai on the festival weekend. We would like to say a very big THANK YOU to the 300+ volunteers who joined us this year! Whether joining for your first or 46th Powell Street Festival, each of you bring your dedication and enthusiasm and make this festival a success. Thank you very much for supporting Powell Street Festival through our lottery, and congratulations to our 2022 Festival Lottery Winners: Grand Prize! Staycation at The Listel Hotel for Two – Kunji Ikeda, #2909 We would like to extend special 2nd Prize Dinner & Music Package – Connie Kadota, #1050 thanks to our lottery prize 3rd Prize Festival Nights Out – Midori Sakuta, #096 sponsors, The Listel Hotel, Hapa 4th Prize Festival Celebrations – Diane, #1950 Izakaya, and Mint Records. Thank 5th Prize Fun with Friends – Sayuri Katayama, #1567 you also to our prize donors: 6th Prize Kathy Shimizu Print – K Yoshida, #2817 Vancouver Latin American Film 7th Prize Collection of Books and Magazines – Kunji Ikeda, #920 Festival, Dosanko, Vancouver 8th Prize Dine Out – Lisa Uyeda, #166 International Film Festival, 9th Prize Arsenal Pulp Press Books #1 – Helen Kang, #1267 TAKENAKA, NAMI Studio, 10th Prize Showstopper – Erin Nishi, #2018 Cadeaux Bakery, Kathy Shimizu, 11th Prize Big Basket of Gift Cards – Aaron Oye, #2041 The Bulletin Magazine, Meditating 12th Prize Supreme Foodie – Yoko Lin, #1098 Bunny Inc., Aburi Restaurants 13th Prize Treat Yourself #1 – Masami Hanashiro, #587 Canada, Arsenal Pulp Press, the 14th Prize Arsenal Pulp Press Books #2 – Linda Ham, #882 15th Prize Anvil Press Books and Magazines – Masami Hanashiro, #636 frank theatre, The Cinematheque, 16th Prize Treat Yourself #2 – Gaven Montesano, #2896 Vancouver Ikebana Association, 17th Prize Shop and Dine – Simon Bruins, #293 Out & About, Murata, Massy 18th Prize Shop and Dine – Tanya Petreman, #152 Books, The Postcard Place, Fujiya, 19th Prize Deluxe Foodie – Lisa Mah, #1465 Haisai! Sweets & Treats, Sunrise 20th Prize Deluxe Foodie – Rika Uto, #482 Market, Tokyo Katsu-Sand, Anvil Powell Street Festival will contact you if you have not yet collected your prize. Press, Mr. Japanese Curry.

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Job Description Intern Graphic Designer – Japanese Section (Remote) ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA) is a non-profit organization representing the Japanese Canadian community in Vancouver and the surrounding area. Our office is located and activities take place take place on the unceded territories of the Sḵwxw̱ ú7mesh (Squamish), Səlí̓lwətaʔ/ Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xwməθkwəyə̓ m (Musqueam) Nations. THE GVJCCA’S MANDATE INCLUDES •

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• and publishing a forum in the means of a journal for issues significant to its members, persons with Japanese ancestry and others of interest. JOB DESCRIPTION The GVJCCA is looking for a creative, detail-oriented, and highly organized intern graphic designer to work on features for Japanese sections of the monthly print magazine. This role reports directly to the Editor-inChief and Japanese Editor, and works in close collaboration with other members of the team. The intern graphic designer must be organized and able to liaise with monthly contributors, advertisers, media inquiries, and community contributors. The successful candidate must be able to communicate in Japanese, be selfmotivated, highly organized, be very communicative, and work with a sense of urgency and timeliness. Proficiency in InDesign, Photoshop, Gmail, Google Drive and other file sharing platforms is required. Experiences in writing articles, and managing social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) and WordPress is also an asset. Hours of work: ongoing contract with higher workload closer to the press date every month. During the press week, the graphic designer/Japanese editor must be available to liaise with contributors, editor-in-chief and other members of the team, and to submit the file by the press date. RESPONSIBILITIES • Collaborate with the editor-in-chief and Japanese editor, determine the required pages, starting page #, and design print layouts for the magazine •

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Having found a miraculous parking spot at Princess and Cordova, Amy and I headed to Oppenheimer Park last Sunday afternoon. Truthfully, it felt strange to walk this familiar route once again, the uncertainty wrought by the pandemic still ever-present. We had timed our arrival for the start of Katari Taiko’s set but as we entered the park we could hear the unmistakable sounds of the sumo tournament emanating from the large crowd gathered in front of the Diamond Stage. Things were apparently running behind – perfect! We managed to find a spot where we could (mostly) see and were treated to the women’s final and then the men’s final. Both championship matches were close and thrilling, the bags of rice from Fujiya were handed out to the winners and runners up, and just like that, we were back at the Powell Street Festival, live and in person for the first time since COVID caused a huge pivot to, well, everything. Having purposely arrived with empty stomachs, we headed over to the Jackson Street food vendors, where we grabbed some SPAM musubi from the GVJCCA booth then headed to the Diamond Stage for Katari Taiko’s set. The night before, I had played a set at the Firehall Theatre with my old band, Kokuho Rose Prohibited. The band hadn’t lasted too long before the majority of us helped form Katari Taiko, Canada’s first taiko group, and taiko became our focal point. Taiko was a way to access our Asian roots continued on page 16

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President’s Message by Cary Sakiyama

Thank you members! The GVJCCA Board of Directors are elected for one year terms. There are, of course, positives and negatives to having one year terms. Speaking for myself, I approached every event as if it were my last. This outlook kept me focused and in the moment. Since I don’t know if this will be my last August President’s message, I am taking this opportunity to thank the people who made this year special. Many, many, many thanks to the current Board: April, Judy, Liz, May, Nikki, Peter, Ron and Wendy – your tireless efforts, your laughter, your dedication, your passion, your insights, your thoughtfulness, your smiles. Thank you to Mitsuyo for your teachings, your diligence in keeping us going and functioning amid a myriad of procedural changes. Kazuho, Kao and Akiko for making my job easier as I had complete faith and

trust in you with the Geppo. And John Endo Greenaway – your years of commitment to the Japanese Canadian community is unmatched, your flexibility, your patience and your ability to produce such a high quality Bulletin every month is inspiring! I am in awe. By the time you read this, the 2022 Powell Street Festival will have come and gone. I hope you were able to get out and enjoy the kinship, the marketplace, the demonstrations, the amazing music and the FOOD! Is it too soon to be looking forward to PSF 2023? Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Classes has booked the Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall for our next event! Saturday, August 13, from noon - 2:00 pm, 487 Alexander Street. Meet some great people, learn some new techniques, try some new recipes and eat a delicious meal. Check our instagram post from our last event here https://www.instagram.com/gvjcca/?hl=en For more information, please call Michael 604 609 0657 or email torabc@gmail.com. continued on page 16

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Registration & inquiries, please contact Yuko at socialclub@tonarigumi.ca or call 604-687-2172 ext. 105 REMINDER The GVJCCA Annual General Meeting will be at Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre in the Matsu Room. Mark your calendar for September 17, 2022, meeting will start at 1pm and end at 3pm. We will present our reports, reflect on this past year’s activities and elect our new Board of Directors for 2022 – 2023. Looking forward to seeing you! Please consider nominating someone or joining our Board yourself. See the notice on page 7 of this issue for information about director qualifications. Thank you for reading this far and for your support! :)

Editorial continued through traditionally-based music that was empowering and, in 1979, unique in Canada. The direct connection between Kokuho Rose Prohibited and Katari Taiko is one I will always hold close to my heart. Both groups are inextricably bound up with the Powell Street Festival itself. They were the “house bands” of the Festival for a number of years and for me at least, were my entry points to community. As we sat and watched KT’s set, I reflected on the fact that the group was formed right on the spot where we were now sitting, 43 years ago. We were inspired by a performance of the San Jose Taiko Group at the 1979 Festival and in turn went on to inspire and nurture groups across the country. Here in Metro Vancouver, a new generation of players are picking up the bachi, finding their own sound and making their own connections.

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The Japanese Canadian Survivors’ Social Club (a collaboration of the GVJCCA, Steveston Community Society and TG) is planning a bus trip to the Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum. Transportation and bento lunch are FREE for survivors of the internment, non-survivors cost will be $20 to cover bento and transportation. August 26, 9:30am – 5:30pm, the bus will also stop at Nikkei Place.

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After KT’s performance we enjoyed a wonderful set by Kaya Kurz and her awesome band (speaking of new generations) and then the rousing Festival-closing set by the amazing JODAIKO (speaking of connections). With the heat of the day finally dissipating, we left the park and headed to the Pink Pearl for dinner with some old friends from the early Katari Taiko days.

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by Lorene Oikawa Columbia, and in farms in Manitoba and Alberta. The letters provide some insights into how the young Japanese Canadians lived while interned/incarcerated, but the letter writers also knew that government censors were reviewing all correspondence. Selections from the Joan Gillis fonds can be viewed online in a digital exhibit, I Know We’ll Meet Again https://bit. ly/3Q61JkQ

Festivals and in-person gatherings have filled our calendars. With each event, it has been a wonderful opportunity to provide information and share stories about Japanese Canadians. At the Surrey Fusion Festival, I organized the Japan / Japanese Canadian Pavilion and included stories of Japanese Canadians in Surrey. I kept hearing people say that they never knew about the history of Japanese Canadians in Surrey. Neither did I when I was growing up in Surrey. Our heritage is invisible because of the forced uprooting of Japanese Canadians and the omission of our history in our communities. One area in Surrey called Strawberry Hill got the name because of the large number of Japanese Canadian strawberry farmers who not only cleared and farmed the land, they created the Surrey Berry Growers’ Co-operative Association and the Strawberry Hill Japanese Farmers’ Association. They helped pay for the Strawberry Hill Community Hall and developed a major road. This information was provided in one of the panels I had at the Pavilion and was previously in an exhibit at the Museum of Surrey. I worked with the curator at the Museum of Surrey to obtain stories and a special side exhibit was developed and launched and shown along with the Broken Promises exhibit that was at the museum and is now at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. Part of the special Surrey exhibit was a reproduction of a letter and photo and copies of some letters from the Joan Gillis fonds acquired by UBC in 2018. The fonds contains 149 letters and 10 photographs sent to Joan Gillis by a group of Japanese Canadian friends who were also students at Queen Elizabeth Secondary School in Surrey before they and their families were forcibly uprooted in 1942. Most of the correspondence was from 1942 to 1946 when the Japanese Canadian former students were interned/incarcerated in camps in British

Last month, in recognition of the historical value of the Joan Gillis fonds, the fonds were added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register. This is a major initiative to preserve and protect valuable documentary works of historical significance which reflect the diversity of Canada. The UNESCO announcement may be read at this link https://bit.ly/3blmb2p At Powell Street Festival and Surrey Fusion Festival, there were people who did not know about Hastings Park being used to hold about 8,000 Japanese Canadians before being shipped out to internment/ incarceration camps. Many were Japanese Canadians who said their family did not talk about it. 80 years ago, the first arrivals of Japanese Canadians from outside of Vancouver arrived at Hastings Park on March 16, 1942. On September 1, 1942, the population at Hastings Park was 3,866. By September 30, 1942, Hastings Park Assembly Centre was officially closed. The Hastings Park hospital remained open with 105 people who remained there until March 1943 when the hospital was closed, and the patients and staff were sent to a new Sanatorium in New Denver. There are four signs at Hastings Park that tell part of the stories in the words of the survivors. Some of the Japanese Canadian community members who worked on the signage including Dan Tokawa and myself have taken on roles in the new Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society. We are working on the next phase of the project which is an interpretive centre at Hastings Park. We would like feedback from the Japanese Canadian community. Please consider answering the survey at continued on page 28

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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! Tonari Gumi Supporting the Japanese Canadian community since 1975 To learn about Tonari Gumi’s support services and recreational activities for older adults and upcoming events, visit www.tonarigumi.ca. Location: 42 W. 8 Ave, Vancouver Hours of operation: Monday – Friday 10am – 3pm Inquiries: 604-687-2172 info@tonarigumi.ca

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June - October 2022 | 2nd & 4th Sundays | 10am-2pm Nikkei Garden Farmers Market 産地直送 cultural centre Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Returning for a second season! Stroll through the booths of fresh, locallygrown produce, delicious Japanese/Japaneseinspired food, and unique crafts by local makers. Gather with friends and family at the market this summer and enjoy the seasonal beauty in our Japanese garden. Saturday, August 20, 2022 Asahi Tribute Game in Oppenheimer Park The Annual Vancouver Asahi Tribute Game is a free, inclusive, and family-friendly place to play ball, eat hot dogs and corn, and come together for some summer fun! No previous baseball experience required! This year, we’ll also have a photo booth to take a photo memory home and PSF’s Asahi Pitch Game (if you want to try your hand at throwing without actually participating in the baseball game). Details: powellstreetfestival.com Historic Powell Street Walking Tours Tours are offered every Thursday and Saturday from June through August. Join us for a walk in groups of 4 to 8 through a historic neighbourhood which was once home to a vibrant Japanese Canadian community! Tours depart from 487 Alexander St, Vancouver $10 per attendee Tickets www.eventbrite.ca/e/historic-powell-street-walking-tours-tickets-354018788727 September 3 & 4, 2022 10th Annual Nikkei Matsuri Join us for the 10th Nikkei Matsuri family festival celebrating Japanese culture in Burnaby! After two years of scaling down the event, Nikkei Matsuri returns for its 10th year with an expanded site, more food, new offerings and the return of festival favourites! Follow on the NNMCC social media channels or visit nikkeimatsuri.ca for updates! Saturday September 17, 1 to 3pm 2022 GVJCCA Annual General Meeting Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Matsu Room see page 5

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WATERFRONT THEATRE Anastassiia Alexander (Calgary) September 22, 8pm The Machination of Memories Suppressed Kara Miranda Lawrence (Montreal) September 23, 8pm Sombras/Shadows Flamenco Rosario (Vancouver) September 24, 8pm Nuevo III PICNIC PAVILION at Granville Island September 3 and 4, 1pm until 6pm FREE event Vancouver & Victoria based Flamenco dance and music artists MASTERCLASSES with our guest artists Sept 17 & 18, Scotiabank Dance Centre: with Mucha Muchacha, Intermediate Sept 24, Scotiabank Dance Centre: with Albert Hernandez, Choreographic Repertoire (contemporary) Sept 24, Scotiabank Dance Centre: with Alvaro Echanove and Henry Garf

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This is a topic I have to be careful with, because Justin will start getting very emotional, but our parents are… “getting on.” I believe that’s the phrase, anyway. We find it terrifying because our parents are meant to be eternal. I’ve already experienced the loss of one parent in 1998, so my mother is especially precious to me. Justin’s parents are visiting right now, and because it’s been a year we are surprised (not sure why) when they appear visibly…older. (I have to be careful here because if Dad sees this he will get annoyed.) It’s similar to the surprise we experience, again ridiculously, when small children later appear as larger children, and then suddenly as adults. We know it’s going to happen, yet we’re surprised every time. Makes no sense.

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Mexican Style Barbecue Grilled Flank Steak with Chimichurri Sauce 3 pounds of steak such as flank steak, tri-tip, or sirloin

Marinade: ¼ cup shoyu ¼ cup vegetable oil 4-5 cloves of garlic, chopped At my birthday dinner we had all the parents and the conversation turned 1/3 cup lime juice to the internment. (You know, birthday conversation.) Both my mother’s 1 -2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce family and Justin’s mother’s family were interned. However, my mother’s 1 tsp black pepper families had members who had bought land in the interior - Kamloops Marinate the steak in the marinade for 1-2 hours, and Lillooet - and so while they were in tents and shacks and lost all their remove, discard the remaining marinade. property on the coast, their internment could be considered “privileged” Grill the steak(s) over moderately high heat until as the one thing they didn’t lose - or didn’t lose completely - was their medium to medium rare. Let rest, covered with foil dignity and some agency. I think there is a difference between being for 10 minutes. Slice thinly at an angle and serve with bused to Hastings Park and then trained to some remote location, who the chimichurri sauce. knows where (Lemon Creek, in my mother-in-law’s case), with one suitcase, a clatter of small children and a whole lot of trauma and being able to simply go to an inland location and figure it out from scratch. Still Chimichurri sauce traumatic, but less so? However, it’s not for me to make that judgment Place in processor or blender: so I asked my mother in law and she said Yes, that’s so. But it reminds 1 cup parsley me of watching the Joy Luck Club and telling myself that even though 1 cup fresh coriander what some of the characters go through is horrific, they were actually the 1/3 cup olive oil 3 Tbsp fresh lime juice lucky ones. I didn’t bring this up at dinner though. I don’t think you can 2 cloves of garlic triage that kind of suffering and comparisons don’t help anybody. That’s 4 chopped green onions like saying to a survivor of Dachau, a concentration camp, that they were ¾ teaspoon salt or to taste lucky compared to a survivor of Auschwitz, which was an extermination ½ teaspoon pepper camp. It’s fairly well established that it was all beyond horrible. Pinch of chili flakes or a few teaspoons of hot sauce/ Another topic of discussion was the fact that they had almost no pictures tabasco to taste. of themselves when they were babies. This is because all the cameras Blend together until smooth, serve with the sliced were confiscated. Of course! But it had never occurred to me that an steak. entire generation had no baby pictures. That strikes me as so sad, but according to mom they had other things to worry about. So Japanese, ne. This is a long-winded way of saying that even when you turn 53 and you think you know everything, your parents can still surprise you. Mom has produced more surprises in the way of a mini celebration of Mexican food, with a killer chimichurri sauce and a black bean salad and what

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This is nice eaten with rice or wrapped in a corn or You can’t have all that without a sweet! Check it out: flour tortilla that has been warmed briefly on the grill.

Corn and Macaroni Salad

Cheesecake with Lemon Curd

Crust: ½ pound elbow macaroni, boil in salted water until 3/4 cup graham wafer crumbs 1 +1/2 cup shortbread cookie crumbs (I tender, drain and cool on cookie sheet. use Peak Frean Sables, just process until fine or crush in plastic bag) 4 ears of corn, cut off the cob (about 2-3 cups) 5 tablespoons melted butter

½ to 1 jalapeno pepper, seeds and ribs removed and Combine and press into a 10 inch springform pan which has been chopped finely sprayed with non stick spray. Bake at 350F for 10 minutes. Cool. Lower Saute the corn in 2 tablespoons of olive oil with the oven temperature to 300F. finely chopped jalapeno, over moderate heat until the Filling: corn is cooked, about 5-7 minutes. Cool. 3-8 ounce packages of cream cheese (not low fat), at room temperature Dressing: 3/4 cup mayonnaise Juice of 1 lime 1 tsp finely chopped or grated garlic 1 tsp chili powder Salt to taste 1 Tbsp hot sauce or to taste 1 Tbsp wine vinegar Mix the dressing ingredients together. Add to the cooled macaroni and corn, mix to combine. Add and mix in: 4 green onions, chopped ½ cup cilantro, chopped Chill until serving time. THEN

1 cup sugar 3 large eggs 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1+1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Mix the cream cheese with the other ingredients well using electric mixer or food processor. Pour into the cooled crust Bake at 300F for 1 hour. Turn off the oven and let stand for 20 minutes. Remove, cool to room temperature, then chill 4 hours or overnight. Curd: 3 large eggs, beaten ½ cup sugar 1 tablespoon light cream Grated rind of 2 lemons ½ cup fresh lemon juice 4 tablespoons butter

Crumble 2 ounces of Feta cheese, sprinkle on top Combine the eggs, sugar, cream, lemon rind and juice in a saucepan and of salad, top with either chopped green onions or stir and cook over low heat for 6 minutes, stirring constantly. Cook until thickened. Do not let it boil. Stir in the butter until melted. Then strain cilantro. through a fine strainer. Chill, covered, for several hours. To assemble, remove the cooled cheesecake from the pan, place on a serving plate, Black Bean Salad with Tomatoes and Corn spread the cold curd evenly over the top. Chill until serving time. 2 cups cooked corn, either fresh, boiled and cut off Decorate the top with a few raspberries or blueberries and a few mint leaves. ( This recipe, unlike most recipes for lemon curd, uses whole cobs or frozen corn, cooked. eggs, which means you don’t have a lot of unused egg whites to deal 15 ounce tin Black beans, rinsed and drained with and you use fewer eggs. The downside is that this curd may have 1-2 Jalapenos pepper, rib and seeds removed and a few white bits in the cooked curd which is OK but the straining step finely chopped is needed so the curd is nice and smooth.) 3 large tomatoes, cut in large chunks 4 green onions, chopped Dressing: Juice of 1-2 limes or to taste 1 teaspoon cumin ¼ teaspoon pepper ¾ teaspoon salt or salt to taste ¼ cup Olive oil Combine all the dressing ingredients, add to the vegetables, chill for a few hours. Stir and taste, add extra seasoning as needed.

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September 3 & 4, 2022 Nikkei Centre A FA M I LY F E S T I VA L O F J A PA N E S E A R T S & C U LT U R E ! All proceeds support programs, exhibits, education and more, including facility maintenance of our twenty year old museum and cultural centre. 日系祭りの収益金は日系文化センター・博物館の運営及び建物や敷地の修理費に使われます。

Welcome to Nikkei Matsuri!

日系祭りへようこそ！

Nikkei Matsuri returns this year bringing two-days of festivities to enjoy Japanese culture, food, hands-on games & crafts, entertainment, exhibits, and more! After hosting scaled-down activities over the past two years, we look forward to welcoming you back to the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre’s largest fundraising event.

今年は日系祭り10周年。パンデミックによる２年間の縮小型イベントを経て、フルスケールにて日本文化、屋台フード、エンターテイメント、日本のゲームほかをお届けします。

WHAT’S NEW THIS YEAR Weekend Pass: $10 at the gate or $8 in advance gets you access to the Nikkei Garden & Indoor activities for both Saturday, September 3 & Sunday, September 4th.

日系祭りの拡張とともに入場口がメインゲート（サウスオークス・クレセント沿い）に加え、BCハイドロとの境のマグノリアの小径沿い、西側すずや横にも入場口が設置されます。

Entrance Gates: access Nikkei Matsuri with a weekend pass through 3 entrances: Main (off Southoaks Crescent), Magnolia Path (East between BC Hydro) and Central (next to Suzuya).

また建物南側、ベレスフォード・アベニュー沿いの芝生エリアに新しくフードトラックプラザがオープン。この入場料のいらないエリアにはピクニックテーブルが置かれ、Telusによるアクティビティーも行われます。

Food Truck Plaza: we’ve expanded! Explore the Plaza (Beresford Avenue/BC Parkway) for more food, picnic spots, and activities hosted by Telus. No admission fee - come enjoy the relaxed atmosphere without the need to purchase a weekend pass.

レイバーデーの連休は、ご家族で楽しめる日系祭りでお過ごしください。

With kids games outdoors, cultural displays & performances indoors, and more food throughout than ever before, come and enjoy your labour day weekend at the Nikkei Matsuri Festival.

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今年の最新情報当日券は10ドル。前売り券は８ドル。９月３日４日共有パスとしました。

Louise Akuzawa, 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

Festival Dates & Times 日時 Saturday, September 3 & Sunday, September 4 11:00am – 7:00pm

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Event Admission 入場料 Paid admission is required for Adults 18-64 years old. Your ticket gives you access throughout Nikkei Garden and in the building for both Saturday, September 3 and Sunday, September 4. Show Saturday receipt to enter on Sunday. Purchase online is recommended: www.nikkeimatsuri.ca via EventBrite or scan the above QR code with your smartphone. EARLY BIRD WEEKEND PASS

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• NNMCC Members* • Children under 17 • Seniors 65+ • After 6pm *Presentation of membership card required at entrance

入場料は18歳から64歳が対象です。前売りチケットは８ドルで、８月１日から28日までオンラインか日系センター受付にて販売。入場口での当日券は10ドルです。入場券は９月３日と９月４日両日有効。日曜日の入場には土曜日のチケットをお見せください。日系センター会員（会員証提示のこと）、17歳以下、65歳以上のシニアは無料です。

Refund Policy • Online refunds available until August 27, 11am. Eventbrite fee is non-refundable. • Refunds for physical tickets purchased at Reception available until August 28 during office hours (10:00am - 5:00pm). Full $8 refund with receipt and ticket. PARKING - $10.00 per day, first come first serve. No in/out privileges. 日系祭り開催中は地下駐車場は10ドル。スペースに限りがあります。 NO STROLLERS OR PETS INDOORS - designated stroller drop off available.

Opening Ceremony 開会式 Saturday, September 3 at 12 noon ９月3日（土）12時

OPENING REMARKS + KAGAMI BIRAKI with Consul General of Japan in Vancouver Takashi Hatori & His Worship Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley

WELCOME BLESSING by Elder Sam George of Squamish Nation

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Join Us as a Volunteer! We need helpers to make Nikkei Matsuri a success! Be part of the festivities as a volunteer - help your community, participate with friends, or make some new ones! Learn more: Volunteer Coordinator: volunteer@nikkeiplace.org Sign up online: www.nikkeimatsuri.ca or go to https://bit.ly/3cTvib4

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Festival favourite food and Japanese-style games!

CREPE SASUKE Japanese-Style Crepes

JEGGS Vegetarian Okonomi-Yaki

HATCHAN TAKOYAKI Takoyaki (Octopus Balls)

STREET FOOD BY KOYUKI SAPPORO RAMEN Karaage, Yakisoba

SUZUYA Tai-Yaki

ICHIYO’S MATCHA BAR Iced Matcha Drinks

POTATO-SAN Deep-Fried Spiral Potatoes

TEPPAN YARO Pork Gyoza, Beef Rice Burger

Indoor Activities Shiatsu massage, workshops, yukata (summer kimono) rental, exhibits, booksale. SANRIO HELLO KITTY & FRIENDS SAND ART ハローキティ＆フレンズ砂絵ワークショップ Tsubaki 椿 Room 200 SHIATSU MASSAGE By the Canadian College of Shiatsu Therapy Kaede 楓 Room 210 2ND-HAND JAPANESE BOOKSTORE

EXHIBITION - WASHI 和紙 Karasawa Gallery Japanese Paper Art Works by Naoko Matsubara + Alexa Hatanaka

PRINT-MAKING CRAFT Matsu 松 Room 201

YUKATA (SUMMER KIMONO) RENTAL 浴衣着付け＆レンタル Budojo (Main Floor)

日本の中古書籍・ブックセール

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Beer Garden ビアガーデン

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Alcoholic beverages can be carried throughout the Nikkei Garden. ガーデン内のどこでも飲酒が可能になりました。 SAKE ASSOCIATION OF BC Japanese Sake and Beer. Participating distributors include: • Jizake Japan Inc. • Axis Planning Inc. • PureSake 4U Ltd. CHOYA UMESHU Choya is the biggest producer of Umeshu (plum wine) in the world.

STUDIO BREWING Burnaby-based craft brewery.

BEER sponsored by

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Food Truck Plaza

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フードトラックプラザは入場無料 Free access to a variety of food trucks and an activity booth by Telus.

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JAPADOG Japanese-style hot dogs with unique toppings. TACO SUSHI NORI Taco Style Sushi Nori

TERIYAKI BOYS Teriyaki Chicken Don & Beef Don, Yakisoba, Garlic Shrimp, Ika-yaki TOKYO KATSU SAND Katsu-sand, Karaage, Yakisoba

WAKWAK BURGER TAKENAKA Teriyaki Burger, Okonomi Burger, Authentic Japanese food Chicken Cutlet Burger, Fried Potato

Grab & Go at the Nikkei Cafe! 日系カフェ

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Food, Desserts, Drinks in the Performance Hall Japanese baked goods, snacks and soda, artisan chocolate, manju, ice cream, organic tea, and vegan sushi. NNMCC AUXILIARY COCONAMA CHOCOLATE NEKO FRESH KANADELL JAPANESE BAKERY SUNGIVEN FOODS

SUZUYA MARKET SECRET ICE CREAM COFU PRESSED SUSHI TEA LANI EARLY BIRDS PUDDING

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Performances パフォーマンス

MAIN STAGE sponsored by

Master of Ceremonies: Kevan Ohtsji, Naomi Yamato, Rachel Enomoto + Tetsuro Shigematsu. Full performance schedule at www.nikkeimatsuri.ca MUSIC + DANCE

Bushido - Children of Song Chibi Taiko Koto Ensemble Pico + Chihiro ShootingStar Idols Southern Wave Okinawan Music & Dance Society Vancouver Okinawa Taiko Satsuki-kai Japanese Dance Otowa Ryu Japanese Dance Shion Skye Carter Contemporary Dance MARTIAL ARTS DEMOS

Shorinji Kenpo Vancouver Shomonkai Aikido Shito-Ryuseiko-Kai Karate Canada Ishikawa Family Judo Club Seitei Iaido Renbu Kendo Dojo

CULTURE Shishi-mai & Mikoshi by Rakuichi Flower Display by Vancouver Ikebana Association

Special Music & Dance Duets 日本舞踊とピアノ、三味線のコラボ Satsuki-kai will perform with Mai Akimoto and Richard Ogawa. Mai Akimoto is a professionally trained entertainment artist hailing from Sapporo, Hokkaido, showcasing the traditional Japanese music of the shamisen. Richard Ogawa is a classically trained pianist, and musical theatre performer. Enjoy the new collaboration! 日本舞踊とピアノ、三味線のコラボミュージカル・シアターの役者さん、リチャード・オガワさんによるピアノ演奏と踊り、また日本の三味線奏者、秋元麻依さんによる三味線と踊り。さつき会による日本舞踊のコラボレーションをお楽しみください。

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Marketplace マーケットプレース

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Japanese inspired apparel, fabrics, vintage garments, accessories, and 2nd hand treasures. AUXILIARY OTAKARA FLEA MARKET MYSGREEN PAC WEST KIMONO SASAKI ART SIAMURAI APPAREL SHINO JAPANESE FABRIC CREATIONS

Lantern “Chochin” Wall

日系祭りへのご支援に感謝いたします。 The Lantern Wall honours the generous support of our sponsors and donors. Check out the new display at Nikkei Centre! Festival Partners

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FRIEND Alan & Wakako Morris Gary Matson COMMUNITY Satsuki kai Yoko Matsuno

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NAJC continued bit.ly/Hastings-Park Email JCHPICS2022@gmail.com on the dispossession of Japanese Canadians. We had the opportunity if you have any questions or want to be added to a to see one of the outputs, the Broken Promises exhibit at the Royal BC mailing list for updates. Museum which some people were seeing for the first time. I had seen it The NAJC received an invitation from our friend Setsuko at the Museum of Surrey which had the capacity to host the full exhibit Thurlow, an international disarmament advocate and and not the smaller travelling exhibit. We also got to meet at the new a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing who accepted Esquimalt Gorge Pavilion which is near the Gorge waterway and the the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International expanded Japanese garden, the site of a former Japanese tea house and Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to garden which is the oldest in Canada. 80 years ago, the family running attend the zoom webinar 2022 Hiroshima – Nagasaki the tea house was forcibly uprooted along with about 22,000 Japanese Day Commemoration on August 9 from 7 – 8:30pm Canadians and the tea house was vandalized. The Victoria Nikkei Cultural Eastern time. More info at www.hiroshimadaycoalition. Society, a NAJC member organization, garnered public support for a new ca & register at tinyurl.com/CanadaSignTheBan. The facility and their work was critical to having the pavilion built. They also NAJC accepts Setsuko’s call to continue supporting brought in the Landscapes of Injustice for research support. The pavilion the commitment for public awareness of the danger is a community gathering place and the design pays tribute to the tea of nuclear weapons and advocating for their total house and surrounding Japanese garden. The VNCS will be holding their Japanese Cultural Fair in person after two years in the new Esquimalt abolition, for peace. Gorge Park Pavilion on August 27. A member of the Takata family, the On August 9 we will also be recognizing the family who ran the tea house and were forced to leave 80 years ago, will International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples be married there. Also, our NAJC Art Symposium Gei will be held there in and this year’s theme of the role of indigenous women September. It’s quite exciting to see the Japanese Canadian community in the preservation and transmission of traditional embracing the Pavilion and all that it represents. knowledge. Help spread the message through social media material prepared by the UN: https://www. My vision remains the same, we must continue to push forward and make our stories visible in our communities not just for Japanese Canadians, un.org/en/observances/indigenous-day but for all Canadians and for all of us to remember the lessons and stop As the vice chair of the Landscapes of Injustice steering the injustice. committee, I was happy to meet up with some of the former members of the different clusters, community On behalf of the National Executive Board, we thank all the volunteers. council and other members of the steering committee Thank you for all the work you do to preserve our Japanese Canadian in person in Victoria. We had our finale meeting to history, arts, and culture. We hope you are able to have some time to reflect on this seven-year major national research refresh and catch up with family and loved ones. Keep safe and well and knowledge mobilization partnership that focused during the rest of the summer.

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Life

One Nikkei Voice

– TERRY WATADA

THE DOWN EAST CHINATOWN CAFÉ – PART TWO by Terry Watada Editor’s note: Terry is on hiatus. He offers a short story in place of his regular column. He will return. Being Japanese in east end Toronto of the 1950s was a mixed blessing. Barely middle class, my family had escaped the squalor of the Spadina-Dundas Japanese section of downtown shortly after the war, but I personally had to suffer the racist taunts that all children with my face suffered at the hands of the parent-coached ignorant. Making my way home each and every day was a journey fraught with uncertainty and/or ambush. The last day of school in 1960, I gingerly stepped among the vines, garbage and undergrowth of the ravine leading away from my public school. In the clearing in the middle, I was confronted by two girls, one blonde, one brunette, both with backwards swastikas on their arms, malice in their eyes. They seemed familiar as if I had seen them at assembly or at recess but at a distance. Without a word, they jumped me and started pummelling my body. Legs, fists and long hair flying everywhere but I resisted fighting back. Wally and the Beaver never lowered themselves to hit girls, and so, as a consequence, they soon beat me to the ground. I heard the word “Jap” echoing around the towering trees of the ravine as they ran away. On the other hand, I did discover, amidst the intolerance of the times, a refuge, a haven, because of my face. A cheerleader, who was Japanese Canadian, at my high school encouraged me to join her newly formed youth group at the Toronto Buddhist Church. Linda was pretty with long curls, shapely thighs, and a wide smile with gleaming white teeth showing. So I became a Buddhist. The downtown church, built with the modern architectural ideas of the 1960s, was established for and by Japanese Canadians who were willing to forget the past and look to the future. In the end, I didn’t get the girl but I soon struck up a friendship with Alan Mori. His family represented the last vestige of the Japanese-Canadian community which arose in the neighbourhood surrounding the intersection of Spadina and Dundas during the post-war resettlement. His father, a well-groomed man with an air of sadness about him, ran a decaying corner store in the middle of what had become Chinatown. The Sullivan Street News Stand and Confectionery with large storefront windows filled with candy, bread and cheap toys sold Coca Cola in dwarfed green bottles, Orange Crush in tall brown bottles and a

rainbow of popsicles mostly to Chinese kids. Al’s mother, a petite woman with her best years behind her, worked as a seamstress in the nearby Jewish Garment District standing adjacent to Chinatown. As the only son, Al was given all the benefits of a dual-income family in a single-income era. Every week for his allowance, he received the princely sum of ten dollars! Like the rest of us peasants, I had to earn any spending money at a part time job. His weekly windfall inspired in him a taste for fashion, restaurants and good times. His thin build, wavy hair and natural good looks made him popular with the girls. Add to that his access to the family car and his sense for the romantic and he was irresistible. In our final year of high school, Al decided he needed a steady girlfriend and so chose Pamela Mah. No one knew why. He claimed he needed someone to take to the graduation prom but I guessed that he liked the challenge. Pam or Ping was a typical Chinatown girl, short with long hair, shapely legs and a fierce Chinese mother. Mrs. Mah did not like the fact that a Japanese boy was trying to date her oldest daughter. “Your uncle was killed by the Japanese at Nanking!” she used to scream at Ping as she left their semi-detached house with the slumped roof and veranda with the cracked floorboard for school. Al often had me call her so that I could determine whether the coast was clear. I always used a false Chinese name and fake accent if Mrs. Mah answered. “Ah, Missy Wong?” I asked in a singsong manner. “No? So sorry. Wrong numba.” What a jerk I was! I still can’t believe I fooled her in any way but she never let on that she knew. Another time, I had to give Al a hand up as he climbed the front cherry tree to get to Ping’s window. The continued on page 35

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Youth $55 | Seniors $155 | General Admission $175 SYMPOSIUM UPDATES & PROGRAM | REGISTRATION | RESERVE A SPOT | SYMPOSIUM HOTEL Learn More & Reserve or Register at www.torontonajc.ca Location: Downtown Toronto • Friday, October 28th (early registration at Chelsea Hotel only) • Saturday, October 29th (Venue: Chelsea Hotel) • Sunday, October 30th (Venue: Royal Ontario Museum) The Toronto NAJC Board of Directors invites you to a Human Rights Symposium to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the NAJC/NJCCA. The Toronto NAJC is the Symposium Host and Funder and is working in partnership with the NAJC Human Rights Committee to develop the Symposium programming. You do not have to be a member to attend but capacity is limited to 100 attendees for this in-person event. Most sessions will not be recorded. Currently, we have 40 reservations, so do not delay. Register or reserve today. Programming will focus on aspects of human rights within and beyond our community. The Symposium theme An Inheritance of Activism reflects our aim of learning from our community’s history of activism. Strategies will be developed for building solidarities with other communities and concrete actions to effect change. Conference fees includes Sunday admission to the Royal Ontario Museum where the exhibit Being Legendary curated by Cree artist Kent Monkman will have recently opened. The exhibit includes an installation of new paintings by the artist alongside objects from ROM’s collections. Interpreted by Monkman’s shape-shifting, time-travelling, gender-fluid alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, the exhibition depicts how deeply Indigenous knowledge is embedded in the lands of Turtle Island. Through the power of storytelling, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle reframes the forced interruptions of the colonial project on Turtle Island and honours leaders in the community who shine a light forward for future generations. (ROM website) INFO: torontonajc@gmail.com or symposium@torontonajc.ca Symposium Executive Lead and Co-Chair: Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi, Toronto NAJC President Symposium Co-Chair: Kristen Kiyomi Perry, NAJC Human Rights Committee

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Community Update 487 Alexander Street, Vancouver, BC, V6A 1C6 Tel: 604.254.2551 Email: info@vjls-jh.com

LANGUAGE TEACHING-LEARNING AND SOCIAL IDENTITIES

by Motoki Long-Nozawa

I am currently conducting research in the Department of Language & Literacy Education (LLED) and serving as a research fellow in the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC). My scholarship focusing on Japanese language education and queer identities received the Dean of Education Scholarship from UBC. In the last two years, I was privileged to have the opportunities to share my ideas with many people at several conferences. In March of 2022, I presented my paper titled “A case study of a queer learner’s Japanese language learning and gender identity construction” at the Third Asian Conference on Language (ACL 2022) with the financial support from VJLS. Since the 1990s, a significant number of scholars and educators in the field of second/foreign languages education have shifted their focus on language teaching-learning, from the cognitive to the social. The so-called social turn, along with the multilingual and critical turns, directed scholars’ and educators’ attention to social identities in relation to language teaching-learning. In particular, many language & literacy education programs in Canadian universities including the University of Toronto, McGill, and UBC have fruitfully produced knowledge about language VJLS 2022 – 2023 Registration – Don’t Miss Out on Next Year’s Classes! Registrations are still being accepted for next year’s Japanese Language courses and classes are filling up. All current and former students are encouraged to sign up as soon as possible to reserve their spot. We look forward to offering another fun-filled year with in-person lessons, activities, and extracurriculars and would like to encourage everyone to register early so that they can confirm their spot in their class. Registration for all Heritage, Fundamental, Adult, and High school classes can be done on our website at www.vjls-jh.com/register. The first day of classes, and our entrance ceremony, will be on September 10, 2022. If you have any questions about what will be offered next year, or what course may be right for you or your child, please contact info@vjls-jh.com for more information.

teaching-learning and identity. This reflects the needs and responds to the diversity within Canadian society. At ACL 2022, my presentation explored the discursiveness of language learning and gender identity construction of a Canadian university student learning Japanese who identifies as a cis and feminine/androgenous male. Two questions that guided my exploration were 1) what pedagogical practices opened up opportunities for gender identity construction and advance Japanese language learning and 2) how the space where those practices emerged can be conceptualized pedagogically. My analysis demonstrated how a “playful space” created by the student and his interlocutors helped him construct his gender identity and advance his language competencies. In particular, I pointed out that possibilities of playing around gender roles afforded by the teacher’s linguistic and pedagogical practices were key to creating and cultivating the playful space. I concluded with the pedagogical implications by arguing a critical need for creating a learning space where language users have opportunities to explore gender/sexual identity repertoires. I am grateful for the support for my research project from VJLS. Also, I appreciate the initiatives for equity, inclusion, and diversity Darius has undertaken. As a member of VJLS and an academic researcher, I hope to use my knowledge to further promote equity, inclusion, and diversity in Japanese language classrooms at VJLS. I was selected to present my work at the Canadian Association of Japanese Language Education (CAJLE) 2022 Annual Conference in August of 2022. Hope to see many of you there!

Powell Street Festival We greatly appreciated being back in person for this year’s Powell Street Festival and being able to cook for so many of our community members. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our food tent and information booth to connect with us. We also want to extend a sincere thank you to all of the volunteers who spent their weekend with us and helped make everything such a success and a wonderful experience. We are especially grateful to the experienced volunteers who welcomed our newest ones to the event and shared their wisdom and experience with us as we planned and organized this event. Volunteer with VJLS-JH We are always looking for additional volunteers to help us with food and cultural events, our Saturday classes, our library, and more. For more information on how to get involved please see our volunteer page at www.vjls-jh.com/support-us/volunteer/ We are Hiring!VJLS-JH is looking for bilingual Early Childhood Educators for our culturally enriched Japanese Preschool program in September. For more information on these and other roles we’re currently hiring for, please visit https://vjls-jh.com/support-us/employment-opportunities

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TONARI GUMI CORNER

Japanese Community Volunteers Association

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

Japanese Canadian Survivors Social Club

The Japanese-Canadian Survivors Social Club is planning two bus trips to the Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum. Transportation and bento lunch are free for the survivors of the internment. Family and friends welcome – please inquire about the fee.

generously funded by the Emergency Preparation and Response Funding from the United Way British Columbia. TG COOLING STATION Fridays in August (and during heat waves) 9am – 4pm

TASHME BUS TRIPS August 26: Bus Trip to Tashme #1 (Few seats left!) September 27: Bus trip to Tashme #2 For registration and inquiries, email Yuko at socialclub@ tonarigumi.ca or call 604-687-2172 ext. 105

TONARI GUMI GARDEN CLUB AT NIKKEI GARDEN FARMERS MARKET Check out fresh, locally grown produce, deliciously prepared food and uniquely crafted items by local makers at the Nikkei Garden Farmers Market. Tonari Gumi Garden Club will also be there selling vegetables, crafts and TG cookbooks! Tonari Gumi, in collaboration with GVJCCA June – October 2nd & 4th Sundays, 10am-2pm *Tonari Gumi will be and Steveston Community Society, is bringing there on the 2nd Sundays. opportunities for social contact, camaraderie and Nikkei Centre (6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby) connection for those who were affected by the internment during World War II and other seniors. WALKERS FOR THE COMMUNITY Various gatherings will take place throughout 2022, Tonari Gumi is grateful to have received a number of walkers from Ms. and is funded by the Japanese Canadian Survivors Yang via the Richmond Emanuel Church. We are making them available Health and Wellness Fund. Check out the Bulletin and for rent to anyone in need. If you or someone you know would benefit the Tonari Gumi website (www.tonarigumi.ca/post/ from a walker, please contact Tonari Gumi at 604-687-2172 ext. 101 social-club) for future events and details. info@tonarigumi.ca FRIENDS OF TONARI GUMI GOLF TOURNAMENT The 2022 Tonari Gumi Golf Tournament will take place on Sunday, September 11th at Meadow Gardens. We are limiting the number of golfers who can participate this year, so don’t miss out in the chance to join with us in having a great time, while supporting an important cause. The registration deadline is Thursday, September 1st, but you can register now by visiting the TG website and sending in your completed registration form. Event & registration details: www. tonarigumi.ca/post/_golf TG CAFE SUMMER BREAK TG Cafe and Seniors Lunch on Fridays is taking a break in August. Instead, TG will be hosting a Cooling Centre. See below for details. STAY COOL AT TONARI GUMI! Come to Tonari Gumi to cool off in our air conditioned space! TG is hosting a Cooling Centre on Fridays and during heat waves, and providing other support services at times of extreme heat. Initiatives are

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The Japanese Community Volunteers Association, “Tonari Gumi” gratefully acknowledges and thanks the following people for their generous donations received June 30 to July 26, 2022. Although we try our best, we may miss your name. Please contact us and we will make correction in the next issue.

Monetary Donations Tae Helgeth, Mitsuko Mizuguchi, Roberta Nasu, Saeko Tsuda, Kimiko Sato, Sachiko Matsumoto, Anonymous (1) In memory of my parents Tomi & Nobuo Nishimura Shawn Nishimura Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) CanadaHelps COVID-19 Community Care Fund, Canada Helps Vancouver Fund In memory of Tomie Oishi (Canada Helps) Yvonne Wakabayashi In memory of Bob & Naomi Hughes (Canada Helps) Yvonne Wakabayashi In Kind Donations Ken & Junko Shinozaki, Aki Foster, Miwako Akio, Noboru Matsumoto, Patricia Miyagawa, Katusko Alberts, Ohomi Sugawara, Shawn Nishimura, Yukie Aratake, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kayoko Hayashi, Miya Taka, Stella Tin, Jessy Johl/Queen Elizabeth Lions Club, Anonymous (9) MONTHLY GIVING Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) Takashi Sato, Tsutae Suzuki, Mitsuko Mizuguchi, Tamotsu Nagata, Satomi Yamashita, Emiko Morita, Anonymous (1)

OUR EDIBLE ROOTS

The Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden

Cultural Gardening Experience by Makiko Suzuki A few months ago, readers might remember the Tonari Gumi search for a summer student, sponsored through Canada Summer Jobs program. The Youth Employment and Skills Strategy of the federal government aims to help young Canadians develop skills and gain paid work experience to successfully transition into the labour market.

Q. What part of the job description did you find interesting or why did you want to apply?

A. Growing up as a 4th/5th generation full Japanese Canadian, I never learned how to speak and understand my native language. Through applying, I thought that After interviewing a number of students, TG hired Emily Nagata. Emily, surrounding myself in a Japanese environment would a 4th generation Japanese Canadian, is entering grade 11. During the help me learn more about my culture and perhaps give employment interview Emily stated: “I do not speak fluent Japanese, but me some insight as I have been given an opportunity I am learning the basics through school. I would like to learn more about to travel to Japan next year. my Japanese culture, heritage and tradition.” Q. How do you help out with TG programs? Emily recently kindly offered to answer a few questions about her A. At Tonari Gumi, I mostly help in the kitchen, preparing experience. and assembling the vegetables from the garden for Q. How did you find out about the TG ‘Canada Summer Jobs’ the Japanese senior’s programs. I assist with bento lunches on Tuesdays and the TG cafe on Fridays. I also opportunity? helped with the Steveston walking tour through Tonari A. I found out about the opportunity from my grandparents. They saw a Gumi’s Social Club. posting in the JCC Bulletin about a job opportunity that they thought would be just right for me. My grandmother took a photo of it on her phone and Q. As an Urban Farm Assistant with the TGGC what sent it to me. I was amazed because my grandmother is not tech savvy, have you been doing? so for her to message me by phone meant she really wanted me to see A. I have been helping out at the farms by watering, it. I thought I’d be good for this position as I have experience in cooking weeding, planting and selecting plants for our lunch Japanese food and working in a garden. programs. I also attended the TGGC Market at the continued on page 34

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Edible Roots continued AT THE TGGC GARDENS The general consensus of experienced gardeners is this has been a terrible gardening year to date. From cold wet weather, to now scorching heat, there seems to be no happy medium to date. At our field and garden plots, we delayed setting out Japanese cucumbers until late June. Summer Dance and Tasty Emperor vines are now finally climbing their trellis, and hanamame vines (Japanese flowering beans) are full of red blossoms, attracting pollinators. Growing cucumber beside hanamame is a sure winner combination for ensuring cucumber flowers pollinate. Meanwhile, shishito peppers, after a slow start, are basking in the heat and pumping out peppers. Nasu (egg plant) started slowly, but recent high temperatures have nudged them to flower. At the Langley field garden, hanamame vines are inter-planted with kabocha plants and climbing well. Kabocha is racing along the ground and we’re seeing more flowers and fruits developing. Tomatoes are also flowering and fruiting; TGGC hopes to have a crop ready for the next market.

Nikkei Centre, where I helped sell various plants such as shiso, black tomato, and Money maker eggplant. I was pleasantly surprised at how busy we were. Q. Over the past few weeks, what part of the job do you find the most interesting? Or have you had any surprises about the job? A. I am constantly amazed by how creative the chef and kitchen staff are at creating wonderful Japanese dishes using donated ingredients. These ingredients are always changing and unpredictable which makes it even more impressive. Emily has handled well the many tasks required to maintain Tonari Gumi Garden Club gardens and deserves special applause for enduring a mosquito attack at the Langley farm in early July. TGGC volunteers completed their tasks in record time and fled for their cars, where they fought off mosquitos that followed them into the car! Luckily the plague was a one-time event! Emily, after purchasing her first Compass Card, has also become a pro at using transit! Thank you, Emily!

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A reminder that the next Nikkei Farmers Market is on Sunday August 14. With luck, Mikurube’s delicious plums will be ripe by then. Fragrant sansho leaves, a sell out at the last market, will be available again. Perennial mitsuba and myouga plants will be on offer. Meanwhile, TGGC members are carefully watching our myouga plants - their beautiful flower pods should be coming soon. A special summer dish is ice cold fresh soft tofu served with either slivered myouga or thinly sliced sansho leaves and shoyu. Refreshing - so fragrant and sublime – you have to close your eyes to savour it! As usual we will be answering gardening questions and selling our gardening and cooking book Our Edible Roots: the Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden. From our table at the Tonari Gumi booth at the Powell Street Festival we were getting inquiries about our red shiso drink. Instead of selling the beverage, this year we sold out all our red shiso plants with instructions on how to grow and make this refreshing and nutritious beverage. The last of our red shiso plants will be on sale at the August market. For those unable to attend the markets you can still improve your ‘green thumb’ and culinary skills with an on-line purchase of Our Edible Roots: the Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden Please visit the Tonari Gumi website for book ordering details www.tonarigumi.ca/shop

Milestones NAKANO, May It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of May Nakano (née Satsuki Kawamoto). May was born on May 31, 1943 at the East Lillooet Japanese Canadian Internment Camp in Bridge River, British Columbia and passed away on July 4, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. She was predeceased by her parents, Masao and Hisako Kawamoto; and her sister Amy Kawamoto. She is survived by her brother Ted Kawamoto; children Megan and Matt Nakano; her nephew Jon-Erik (Julia) Kawamoto; and grandnephew Ben Kawamoto. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. CDT on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at the Midwest Buddhist Temple of Chicago, 435 W. Menomonee Street, Chicago, Illinois 60614. The service will be livestreamed at bit.ly/MayNakano. The community will miss her delicious cooking and her refreshing honesty. SMITH, Bonnie Kay (Nakano), November 17, 1946 – June 19, 2022. Bonnie was born to Elsie and Manny Bourk. Gone to heaven too soon. Bonnie grew up in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. She played hockey all day in the winter with her brother, Monty and swam all day in the summer. At 14 she left home and school to follow her sister, Melanie to study hairdressing. At 15, saying she was 16 , got a job in Whitehorse. Later worked in Vegreville. At 22, she managed a hair salon in Banff, Alberta. Some of her favourite memories

were of riding her horse and camping on her days off. At 25 she moved to Kerrisdale to run her own salon. Later she began working at Suncrest Cabinets until retirement. During that time, she married Roy Koyama and lived happily ever after. Roy and Murphy , our dog, will miss your singing and yodelling. Murphy will especially miss singing the national anthem before every hockey game. You’re in a place now where your team always wins. See you after the game. – Murphy and Roy. TAKAI, Alan Toru Alan Toru Takai, born November 12, 1956 passed away unexpectedly yet peacefully on July 2, 2022 at the age of 65 surrounded by his loved ones. He is survived by his wife Nevia, daughter Ericka (Gord), son Wesley (Karen), grandchildren Stefan, Sienna, Kaede and Julian, sister Katherine and brothers Ray (Jen) and Brian, as well as his extended family. Al will be deeply missed by all of his family and extensive network of friends. He had a heart of gold and lived life to the fullest, always making time with those he loved a priority. Al took great pride in his landscaping business and the connections that he made within the community were endless. He loved to cook, travel, was an avid golfer and never missed the opportunity to attend any event that his grandchildren were involved in. His presence in the lives of everyone who knew him will be sadly missed. A Funeral Service was held on Thursday July 14 at 1:00 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi (2025 Napier Street, Vancouver). In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Royal Columbian Hospital - https://rchfoundation.akaraisin. com/inmemory/326c270340744125b9a097b0954257d5. Condolences for the family may be left at www.kearneyfs.com

One Nikkei Voice continued neighbours watched us in their sleeveless T-shirts, black pants and slippers saying nothing. They simply shook their heads. I didn’t mind playing the third wheel. Al was Romeo, Pam Juliet and I saw myself as a kind of Cyrano. It was the best time of our young lives. For the entire summer, we enjoyed freedom, intrigue and, with Pam ordering for us, the tastiest Chinese food in the world. In the windows of the greasy-chopstick restaurants of Chinatown, the hanging carcasses of ducks, chickens and pigs, dripping with glistening fat, glowed in the twisted neon of Chinese ideograms. The cacophony of voices which greeted us as we sauntered into any place late at night underscored the heavenly smells of Cantonese food that almost always put us under some kind of spell. I savoured the won ton soup, the glistening chow mein and the succulent barbeque pork. We all lived to slide down Spadina Avenue, the four-lane main strip of Chinatown, at two in the morning in the station wagon Al always managed to borrow from his old man, catcalling to all the killer women and silk-suited men while on our way to a favourite noodle house. It wasn’t exactly the same after that summer. Life caused us to drift apart, but Chinatown with its late-night enclaves of Cantonese culinary delights remained as familiar and as comfortable as home.

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Visit: https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events NIKKEI GARDEN FARMERS MARKET “産地直送” JUNE - OCTOBER 2022 | *2ND & 4TH SUNDAYS | 10AM-2PM Returning for a second season! Stroll through the booths of fresh, locally-grown produce, delicious Japanese/Japanese-inspired food, and unique crafts by local makers. Gather with friends and family at the market this summer and enjoy the seasonal beauty in our Japanese garden. August 14 Community Booth: Polar Opposites by the Burnaby Summer Theatre troupe Join us as we head off to Camp Winding Woods, a place where talking polar bears wander the forests and making friends is the most important thing. For Ralph (Jesse Alvarez), it is the hardest. When he meets Cecelia (Muleba Chailunga), they are entirely different and do not get along. It is through their adventures at camp and meeting the mythical talking polar bear, that they learn to embrace their differences and find their way back to camp. Get more information: https://bit.ly/3vmAgU1 10TH ANNUAL NIKKEI MATSURI IS ON SEPTEMBER 3RD & 4TH, 2022 www.nikkeimatsuri.ca

JULY 16, 2022 - FEB 25, 2023 The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre presents an exhibit about Japanese paper featuring Artists Naoko Matsubara and Alexa Hatanaka, plus a heritage corner drawn from our archives. Exhibit produced in cooperation with the Canadian Society for Asian Arts, with support from the BC Arts Council and Deux Mille Foundation. PERMANENT EXHIBITS

2F Kadota Landing – Treasures from the Collection – Taiken: Japanese Canadians Since 1877

MUSEUM SHOP ミュージアムショップ *Featured* CHUSEN TENUGUI TOWEL - FIREWORKS https://shop.nikkeiplace.org/ These colourful tenugui are made with a traditional dying technique called Chusen by talented craftspeople. Some colours mix and merge during the dying process and create unique effects. The more you use it, the softer the cloth becomes. If you need help locating an item, please contact: jcnm@nikkeiplace.org or 604.777.7000 ext.109

Join us for the 10th Nikkei Matsuri family festival celebrating Japanese culture in Burnaby! After two years of scaling down the event, Nikkei Matsuri returns for its 10th MEMBERSHIPS 会員 year, with an expanded site, more food, new offerings and the return of festival favourites! Get updates on The Nikkei Centre is always welcoming new members. the NNMCC social media channels or visit nikkeimatsuri.ca! Membership Benefits Include: • Free admission to the museum Get Involved: Volunteer at Nikkei Matsuri! • Discounts at the museum shop and for certain events We need support from our community members to make this and programs event a success. Please sign up for a shift or two and be part • Attendance to the NNMCC Annual General Meeting of this unique celebration on September 3 & 4 - sign up here: http://bttr.im/v0peb

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society CELEBRATING THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE RECOGNIZING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF NIKKEI HOME by Ruth Coles and Shihori Scott-Montcrieff “OK, everyone! Push yourself up with the chair. Let’s try 12 times! Ready? Here we go! 1, 2, 3….” The lively voice of Hiromi, our exercise instructor, echoes through the hallway and participating residents are moving and stretching their wellused arms and legs. In our salon room, some residents are enjoying their weekly beautification. And on the 4th floor, smiles and laughter of seniors enjoying their weekly chat with volunteers are lighting up the room. We all strive to live a long and healthy life with dignity, pride, and independence. However, as years pass by, our well-used bodies start to face some challenges and our confidence and smile fade away. Accepting the reality that we are no longer able to do what we could is devastating. Imagine being moved to a place with unfamiliar faces, food, and language… For the Japanese Canadian community, providing services and programs to meet the needs of Japanese Canadians and creating a home where Japanese Canadian seniors can have access to familiar foods, be understood, and maintain connections to the Japanese community have been a priority for many years. From the moment the idea of building a care home to meet the needs of isolated Japanese Canadian seniors was raised till today, many individuals in the community have dedicated themselves to make their dream a reality.

the lives of the residents and individuals with mild to moderate dementia who wish to remain at their own home. In 2013, with funding from New Horizons and the Vancouver Foundation, dementia-friendly outreach programs called “Iki Iki”, “kuidoraku” and “Sukuyoka” started. In 2018, Nikkei Home welcomed 5 additional units and Kenko Lounge and, in honour of Robert Nimi, who dedicated over 24 years of his life to the establishment and the operation of Nikkei Home, it was renamed “Robert Nimi Nikkei Home”. Today, Nikkei Home is packed with weekly activities such as bingo, ikebana and art table, and many residents come out to add joy to their day. And thanks to technology, residents connect with their loved ones via Zoom, which is a silver lining throughout the isolation imposed by the COVID pandemic.

September 13 of this year will mark the 20 years of “Kenko de Nagaiki” (Live, Laugh, and Age with grace). We will be celebrating this special day on September 17th at Nikkei Place Event Hall with invited guests. It is a day to celebrate the Japanese Canadian community as a whole, as it was the community members who united and made a difference for others. And it is a Their journey started with the establishment of the Japanese Canadian day to acknowledge and cherish the past and present Society in 1973 that addressed the housing needs of single Japanese of the community spirit, perseverance, love, care and Canadians and lead to building Sakura-so on Powell Street. While many volunteerism, which will live on into the future. single Japanese Canadian seniors were able to live in bed sitting rooms with minor cooking facilities, concerns for isolated Japanese Canadian Looking back at the day “Nikkei Home” was just an seniors at local care facilities and need for a culturally sensitive facility idea, we have come so far but our journey never ends. Now we ask ourselves, what is the future of seniors for Japanese Canadian seniors became prominent. care in the Japanese Canadian community? Is it the In 1981, an Ad Hoc committee was formed which was followed by a public development of additional home support programs for meeting and the recruitment of interested individuals in 1984. Two years seniors? Is it the development of more programs conlater, the Japanese Canadian Health Care Society was incorporated and necting seniors virtually to each other with “at home” became a charitable organization. exercise programs and socialization? Is it the expansion As Nikkei Place began to take shape through the purchase of land made of our current residences and the development of a possible by funding from the federal redress settlement, the building of complex care residence once the current services are New Sakura-so occurred in 1998 followed by the merger of the Japanese no longer able to meet their needs? Canadian Society and the Japanese Canadian Health Care Society to It is all of the foregoing needs that need to be adbecome the “Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society” in 2001. dressed and we are committed to continuing the jourThrough funding from BC Housing management, Fraser Health Authority, ney to explore the possibilities of the future. and significant contributions from the Japanese Canadian community, Nikkei Home, an assisted living residence of 59 suites, became a reality on Ruth Coles is the President of Nikkei Seniors Health September 13, 2002. “Respect, Dignity, Independence, Choice, and Pri- Care and Housing Society. Shihori Scott-Montcrieff, vacy” were adopted as the guiding principles in providing care to seniors. is Project Coordinator for Robert Nimi Nikkei Home’s 20th Anniversary. Since the opening, the society has been endlessly finding a way to improve

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Pathways to Giving NNMCC Peter Harrison Genichi Victor Hori Kids Booth Bubble Doris Kimura Charitable Giving Account Judy Nishi War Memorial Ted Kawamoto Vickie Nakagama Doris Nishizaki Brad Shackman Amy Stasiuk Louise Watson Donna & James Wuest Nancy Yamauchi NPF Anonymous Howard Choy Setsuko B. Saito NSHCHS Atsuko Mori Nikkei Place Charity Golf Day Anonymous Dr. Brian & Marcia Carr Ruth & Michael Coles Eitaro Hirota Kami Insurance Agencies Ltd. Yuki Kurozumi Cathy Makihara NATURE OF THINGS CONTRACTING LTD. Jane Nimi & Patricia Ruegamer Dr. Asae Tanaka Glenn Tanaka Tom Teranishi Brian Tsuji HONOURS & TRIBUTES In Memory of Hisako Asano Sumiko Kamachi

Thank you! Gifts listed from July 1, 2022 — July 27, 2022 inclusive.

In Memory of Dennis Yuji Enomoto Tom & May Mukai In Memory of Ken Haraga Jay Haraga In Memory of Setsuko (Sally) Hashimoto Sumiko Kamachi In Memory of John Hayashi Bruce & Nan Tasaka Tom (Mot) Tanaka In Memory of Teruko (Terry) Homma M. Kitagawa & K. Homma Daniel & Rury Nakagawa Fukashi & Chiyo Yasui In Memory of Minnie Horiuchi Sumiko Kamachi In Memory of Robert & Naomi Hughes Frank & Naomi Kamiya In Memory of Suzue Kimoto Mary M. Okabe In Memory of Dr. Karen Kobayashi Frank & Naomi Kamiya In Memory of Midori Koyanagi Sharon Yoneda In Memory of Mitsuye Maeda Sumiko Kamachi In Memory of Tadao Nakauchi Michael & Frances F. Johnson Tatsu & Karen Mizushima In Memory of Steven Nasu Frank & Patricia Hamanishi Leanne Nakamura Roy Natsuhara In Memory of Tomie Oishi Frank & Naomi Kamiya

In Memory of Sadako Oyama Sumiko Kamachi In Memory of Chiyoko (Chic) Tanaka Frank & Patricia Hamanishi Katsuji & Jane Haya & Family Ted Kawamoto Teruo & Eileen Kitamura Tom & May Mukai Ken, Vickie, Kendra & Kyle Nakagama Doris Nishizaki Brad Shackman Amy Stasiuk Hiroko Stuart & Family Louise Watson Donna & James Wuest Nancy Yamauchi MONTHLY GIVING Anonymous (2) Carina Abe Ian & Debbie Burgess Brian & Marcia Carr Patricia H. Chan Michael & Ruth Coles Grant Dustin Masami Hanashiro Tad & Mitsuko Hosoi Shaun Inouye Kenneth & Bernadine Isomura Mary F. Kawamoto Greciana Langamon Tommy Li Shinobu Kadome Stewart Kawaguchi Ted Kawamoto Catherine Makihara Masako & Ken Moriyama Anne Motozono Roberta H. Nasu Craig Natsuhara Takeshi & Mizuho Ogasawara

Chris Oikawa Hanako Oye Linda Kawamoto Reid Vivian Rygnestad Jim & Norma Sawada Howard Shimokura Audrey Shimozawa Barbara Shishido Charlotte Takasaki Sharlene A. Tabata Michael Takahashi Joyce C. Takeshita Darlene Tanaka & Trevor Jones Grace Tanaka Ginzo & Harue Udagawa Hisako Wada Fred & Linda Yada Chris, Jan Yamamoto & Family Norine K. Yamamoto Sam Yamamoto Tatsuo & Mariko Yamamoto Jack Yeh Gwendolyn Yip & Santa Ono HERITAGE ESTATE GIVING CIRCLE Yoshiharu Hashimoto George & Elaine Homma Betty Issenman Sato Kobayashi Cathy Makihara Robert & Jane Nimi Carrie Okano Linda Kawamoto Reid Richard & Gail Shinde Norman Shuto Haruko Takamori Sian Tasaka Fred & Linda Yada Sam Yamamoto Legacy Gifts Estate of Mitsuo Hayashi

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update 日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会日系ホームの過去、現在、未来を称え、日系ホーム 20 周年を記念して著書：ルース・コールズ（日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会会長）、スコットモンクリーフ・知保里（ロバート新見日系ホーム20周年記念プロジェクト・コーディネーター）翻訳：並木

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「さあ、みなさん! 椅子を使って腕立て伏せをしましょう。12回やってみましょう。準備はいいですか？では始めましょう。1、2、3...」エクササイズ・インストラクター、ひろみさんの元気な声が廊下に響き、参加入居者は、長年使ってきた手足を動かし、ストレッチしています。サロンルームでは、毎週美容を楽しむ入居者もいます。そして4階の部屋は、ボランティアと毎週のおしゃべりを楽しむシニアの皆さんの笑顔と笑い声があふれています。私達は皆、尊厳と誇りをもって、そして自立して健康に長生きすることを目指しています。しかし、年月が経つにつれ、長いこと使ってきた体にも不具合が生じ始め、自信や笑顔は失われていきます。今まで出来ていたことがもうできないという現実を受け入れるのは、とてもつらいことです。知らない人ばかりで、食べ慣れない食事や不慣れな言葉の所に移ることを想像してみてください。日系カナダ人のニーズに応えるサービスやプログラムを提供すること、日系カナダ人のシニアの口にあう食事が出て、話が通じ、日系コミュニティとのつながりを維持できるホームを作ることは、日系コミュニティにとって長年の優先事項でした。孤立した日系カナダ人シニアのニーズに応えるケアホームの建設構想が持ち上がった時から今日まで、日系カナダ人コミュニティの多くの人々がその夢の実現に向けて献身的に取り組んできました。その構想実現への道のりは、1973年のジャパニーズ・カナディアン・ソサエティ（Japanese Canadian Society）設立に始まり、これが単身の日系カナダ人の住宅ニーズに応じた、パウエルストリートの「さくら荘」完成へとつながりました。多くの単身日系カナダ人シニアが、簡易な調理設備を備えたワンルームに住むことができるようになった一方で、地域の介護施設で孤立する日系シニアへの懸念や、彼らの文化に配慮した施設の必要性が浮き彫りになりました。 1981年、特別委員会が設立され、1984年には公聴会が開かれ、関心のある人々が集められました。その2年後、ジャパニーズ・カナディアン・ヘルスケア・ソサエティ（Japanese Canadian Healthcare Society）が慈善団体として法人化されました。

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カナダ政府の日系カナダ人に対する戦後補償（リドレス合意）で土地の購入が可能になり日系プレースが具体化すると、まず1998年にシニアの集合住宅・新さくら荘が建設され、2001年にはジャパニーズ・カナディアン・ソサエティ（Japanese Canadian Society）とジャパニーズ・カナディアン・ヘルスケア・ソサエティ（Japanese Canadian Healthcare Society）が合併し、「日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会」となりました。そして、BC ハウジングおよびフレーザーヘルス保健局からの資金援助と、日系カナダ人コミュニティからの多大なご寄付により、2002年9月13日に59室の介護付きシニア住宅、日系ホームが実現したのです。高齢者介護の指針として「敬愛、尊厳、自立、選択、プライバシー」が採用されました。日系ホームの開所以来、私達日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会は、当ホームの入居者や、住み慣れた我が家で過ごしたいと願う軽・中等度の認知症の方々の生活の質を向上する方法をずっと模索してきました。2013年、高齢者のためのNew Horizonsプログラムとバンクーバー財団の資金援助により、認知症にやさしいアウトリーチプログラム「いきいきプログラム」「食動楽プログラム」「健やかクリニック」が始まりました。2018年には、日系ホームに5室と健康ラウンジが増設され、24年以上にわたり日系ホームの設立と運営に貢献したロバート新見氏の功績を称え、「ロバート新見日系ホーム」と改称しました。今日、日系ホームでは、ビンゴ、生け花、アートテーブルなどたくさんのアクティビティが毎週開催され、多くの入居者が参加し、日々の生活を充実させています。また、コロナ禍での面会制限の間もテクノロジーのおかげで、入居者はZoomで自分の大切な人とつながることができ、せめてもの救いとなっています。今年の9月13日に、「健康で長生き」（生活を楽しみ、笑い、美しく老いる）をビジョンとする日系ホームは20周年を迎えます。この特別な日を記念し、9月17日に日系プレース・イベントホールで、ゲストをお招きしてお祝いします。日系カナダ人コミュニティのメンバーが団結し、他の人々に変化をもたらすことができたことを考えると、この日は、日系コミュニティ全体を称える日でもあります。そして、過去から今に続き、これからも引き継がれていくであろうコミュニティ精神、粘り強さ、愛情、思いやり、ボランティア精神に感謝し、心に留める日でもあります。日系ホームがまだアイディアの段階だった頃を思い返すと、長い道のりでしたが、私達の挑戦に終わりはありません。今、私達は「日系カナダ人コミュニティにおける高齢者介護の未来はどうあるべきか」と自問します。シニアのための在宅支援プログラムをもっと作ることでしょうか？「自宅でできる」運動プログラムや交流に参加することを通して、シニア同士がバーチャルにつながるプログラムをさらに展開することでしょうか？現在のレジデンスの拡大や、現行サービスがニーズに合わなくなった時の複合型ケアレジデンスの開発でしょうか？これらのニーズ全てが取り組むべきものであり、私達は引き続き将来の可能性を追求する道のりを歩んでいきます。

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外国語教育 - 学習と社会的アイデンティティロング野澤基私は現在、ブリッティッシュ・コロンビア大学（UBC）・言語リテラシー教育学科で研究を行っており、また、アジア研究所の研究員を務めています。日本語教育とクィア・アイデンティティに焦点を当てた私の研究は、ＵＢＣの教育学部長奨学金を受け取りました。この2年間、いくつかの学会で多くの人々と私の考えを共有する機会を持つことができ、大変光栄でした。2022年3月、ＶＪＬＳの資金援助を受けて、第3回アジア言語学会（ＡＣＬ 2022）で、「クィア学習者の日本語学習とジェンダー・アイデンティティ構築の事例研究」というタイトルの論文を発表しました。１９９０年代以降、第二言語/外国語教育分野の多くの学者や教育者が、言語教育-学習について、認知的なものから社会的なものへと焦点を移してきました。特に、言語教育-学習に関連する社会的アイデンティティは多くの学者と教育者の注目を集めています。カナダでは、トロント大学、マギル大学、UBCなど、多くの言語リテラシー教育プログラムが、言語教育-学習とアイデンティティについての知識を実りあるものにしています。これは、カナダ社会及び文化状況を反映し、また多様性に対応していることを表しています。 ACL 2022での私の研究発表は、シス・ジェンダー及びフェミニンな男性としてのアイデンティティを持つカナダ人大学生のジェンダー・アイデンティティの構築について研究したものです。私の研究の指針となった問いは、1)どのような教育実践がジェンダー・アイデンティティ構築の機会をもたらし、日本語学習を促進させたのか、2)そのような実践が生まれた空間を、教育学的にどのように概念化することができるか、という二点です。私の分析を通して、学生と対話者が作り出す「プレイフルな空間」が、どのようにジェンダー・アイデンティティを構築し、言語能力を向上させることができたのかを証明しました。特に、ジェンダー的役割の可能性を開く、教師の言語的及び教育的実践がその空間を創造し、育てる鍵であることに注目しました。最後に、言語使用者がジェンダー/セクシュアル・アイデンティティのレパートリーを探求する機会を持つような学習空間を作り出す必要性の教育的意義を主張しました。 VJLSの私の研究プロジェクトへの支援に感謝を申し上げます。また、ダリウスが先導してきた公平性、包括性、多様性への取り組みにも感謝しています。VJLSの一員として、また学術研究者として、VJLSの日本語教室における公平性、包括性、多様性をさらに推進するために、自分の知識を活かしたいと考えています。また、この度、2022年8月に開催されるカナダ日本語教育学会(CAJLE)2022年次大会での発表者に選ばれました。多くの皆様にお会い出来る事を楽しみにしております。翻訳：川岡由美、山田千晶

Eastsideから見える日本と世界第49回いま改めて水俣病について考える ■日本の高度経済成長と「四大公害病」第二次大戦で敗戦した日本は、戦後の1955〜73年の約20年にわたり、経済成長率（実質）年平均10％前後の高い水準で成長を続けました。この高度成長期の影としてさまざまな問題が日本社会には生じましたが、その中の一つが公害問題です。当時、日本では企業活動で生じた環境汚染によって健康被害が起きても国と自治体はそれを放置していました。また、加害企業は汚染物質と被害の因果関係を知り得た後も事実を隠そうとし、それがさらに被害を拡大させました。日本の「四大公害病」として知られている水俣病、新潟水俣病、イタイイタイ病、四日市ぜんそくはいずれも高度経済成長期に注目を集めるようになりましたが、歴史的には、欧米に対して産業後進国であった日本が、明治期以来、国策として産業振興や戦後復興を推し進め、そこで経済発展を最優先してきた経緯と密接に繋がっています。

■水俣病の記録を残していく「四大公害病」の中でも特に多くの記録が残されているのは水俣病だと言えます。水俣病の問題を写真で記録し発信した写真家として故ユジーン・スミス（W. Eugene Smith）が著名です。2021年には、ジョニー・デップがスミス役を演じた映画「MINAMATA」も公開され、話題になりました。同時期には、6時間以上に及ぶドキュメンタリー映画「水俣曼荼羅」（原一男監督）も公開され、公式確認（1956年）から65年が経過したにもかかわらず、補償問題をめぐっていまだ根本的解決には遠い状況が続いている水俣の現実、困難が映し出されました。

いま改めて水俣病に静かな注目が集まっている中、7月中旬に東京・丸の内で「9人の写真家が見た水俣」という小規模の写真展を見てきました。写真集で見たことがあるような有名な写真に加えて、近年の水俣、患者を写した写真も展示され、その中には、もともとは写真家ではなかったけれど患者さんたちに関わる中で「とにかく記録を残さなくては」という使命感から撮影するようになったという写真家の作品もありました。そのうちの一人による「（取材で行った）水俣から東京に戻ったら、水俣で何が起きているか誰も知らないことに愕然となった」という言葉が印象的でした。これらの写真家たちは、水俣病が忘れられていかないよう記録を残し、水俣病および水俣の地域について伝え続けていくために、写真や映像作品などを共同管理する一般社団法人の設立に向け準備しているそうです。

■カナダと水俣病ご存知の方も多いと思いますが、カナダにも「カナダの水俣病（オンタリオ水俣病）」と呼ばれる公害問題（水銀汚染）がありました。故ユジーン・スミスとアイリーン・M・スミスによる写真集「MINAMATA」にはカナダで撮影された写真も含まれています。オンタリオ州での水銀汚染の被害者の多くが先住民であったことは、この公害問題が植民地支配、先住民に対する差別・抑圧と根深く結びついていると指摘されています。このことは実は水俣病でも同様です。先住民ではありませんが、熊本の水俣病で健康被害を被った人々の多くは貧しい漁民やその家族でした。より良い暮らしを求めて対岸の天草諸島から水俣に移り住んだという人も大勢いましたが、移住先の水俣では貧しさから差別や偏見の対象ともなっていました。当時の水俣では、経済活性のために大企業チッソの工場を地元が誘致したという経緯があり、地域内の立場は加害企業のチッソが圧倒的に上、被害者たちは圧倒的に下、という構図になっていました。このことが問題解決に非常に長い時間がかかった要因だと言われています。そして、このような力関係の構図は大半の公害問題に共通することでもあります。だからこそ、現在、水俣病について改めて学ぶことで今の社会で起きていることとの共通点、未だ解決されていない課題を知ることができるといえます。日本の国立民族学博物館（大阪府吹田市）のトーテムポール（2017 年 9 月撮影）。2020 年には新たに別のトーテムポールも建てられた。

山本薫子（やまもと・かほるこ）首都大学東京都市環境学部准教授（2008年〜）。UBC社会学部客員准教授（2018年5月〜12月）。専門は都市社会学、地域社会学。著書に、『横浜・寿町と外国人−グローバル化する大都市インナーエリア』福村出版（2008年）、『原発震災と避難 − 原子力政策の転換は可能か（シリーズ被災地から未来を考える(1)）』有斐閣（2017年）など。

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和泉真澄著「日系カナダ人の移動と運動」知られざる側が読む「知られざる日本人の越境生活史」（1）去る５月、トロント・スカーボロー区の桜祭りイベントに語りを頼まれていってきた。アフガン青年が運転するUBER車中で、20分ほど身の上話を聞きながら向かった。タリバンが再び政権を握る前の祖国で、彼はカナダ軍のトラック運転手として働いていたという。そのコネがあって７年前に移民できた。バンクーバー島の炭鉱で3年間、重労働に耐えた後、家族を呼び寄せトロントに来たのだという。こちらが日本人だと知ると、「ドクター・ナカムラを知ってるかい。悲しいよ。オレは彼を尊敬している」という。もし出国が遅れていたら、彼は敵軍の協力者としてタリバン政権下で処刑されていたかもしれない。カナダの移民拡大政策の成果がここにあった。 2021年、カナダは40万人以上の移民を受け入れた。コロナ禍にもかかわらず移民枠を広げ続けるのは、背景に出生率の急激な低下がある。数十年後を見越した経済成長策には移民の参入は欠かせない。とはいえ、ここまで来るのに大変な時間を要した。第二次大戦が終結した時点では、まだ「ホワイト・カナダ」がまかり通っていたのだから。

●移民史は越境史この度、150年のカナダ日系史を「越境生活史」として記述した画期的な歴史書が出た。明治以来の出稼ぎ者たちは、カナダで所帯を持った後も日本と往き来した。ブラジル移民とは異なる点だという。同書は、日本人は日加を結ぶ「越境移住回路」を形成し「移動と運動」を繰り返してきたという視点で貫かれている。確かに、移民第一号とされる永野萬蔵は、一時期横浜で西洋食堂を営んでいたこともあり、ビクトリアの永野商店で売る雑貨などの買い付けに、日本と定期的に行き来したはずだ。こういったことは現代ではもっと日常的になされている。カナダ在住36年の僕は、帰省の度にエアカナダのロビーで知った顔と遭遇する。同書を特徴づけているのは、1988年の「日系リドレス合意」という大きな節目に至る過程とその後の30年を視野にいれた社会運動史に言及していることだ。著者は北米移民史の和泉真澄氏。博士課程の一部をビクトリア大学で終えたとある。おぼろげながら、2002年頃、「強制収容とアイデンティティ・シフト」著者の野崎京子氏と一緒に、ふらりと日系ボイスを訪れて来た人として記憶している。その時はまだ和泉氏が、ロイ・ミキとカサンドラ・コバヤシ共著「正された歴史」（1991）の日本語版（不二出版・1995）の和訳者の一人だとは知らなかった。ただ、同書の監修をした歴史家・佐々木敏二氏が、1995年頃にトロントに来た時に、和泉氏を「英語のできる優秀な若手研究者」と評していたのを記憶している。そして、30年。歴史家・佐々木敏二氏は共同執筆「戦後日系カナダ人の社会と文化」（2003）を著して2007年に逝去された。和泉氏は佐々木さんの研究を引き継ぎ、キャリアの集大成としてこの書を上梓されたようだ。同著は全10章からなる。第1章では明治期の出稼ぎから定着が始まり、アジア系移民の増大に伴う反動として白人による差別、暴動が続いた。結果として年間の移民数が制限され、呼び寄せでの女性の流入とともに二世が誕生し、家族単位の共同体の形成が促された。 1920年頃から41年までは発展期ではあったが、カナダ政府は日系漁者に対する免許削減を強化し続けた。第5章は第二次大戦に伴う強制収容と分散定住、戦後の日本への国外追放政策に費やされている。共同体の崩壊は、実は新生の日系社会の誕生を準備させていたことも見えてくるだろう。リーダーシップは確実に一世から二世に移譲されていったからだ。各章の冒頭には、関連する日系人が紹介され、著者が日系社会に深く入り込んで調査した足跡が示されている。

「日系カナダ人の移動と運動」（小鳥遊書房・2020）

●負の遺産の風化第6章以降は、戦後の共同体復興と移住者の参入に焦点が移っている。戦後移住者と三世世代が共同で「桜」と「メープル」を融合させていった。これも新しい視点だ。1960年代、米国では黒人主導の公民権運動が高揚し、これが先住民やエスニック・マイノリティの意識変革を助長し、先住民の土地権・主権要求や米加の日系人によるリドレス運動へと結実していった。そして、同著に新味を加えているのが、リドレス以後30年を経過した時点でのカナダ日系社会への言及である。和泉氏は、「リドレス後のコミュニティはまとまるというよりも、むしろ分裂の様相を呈したといえるかもしれない」と見ている。運動過程で起きた「深刻な対立」はその後も「完全に解消することはなかった」と見る。日系社会の構成員としては、この点をもっと深掘りしてほしかった。この点に関しては、バンクーバーとトロントではちょっと状況は異なっていたかもしれない。リドレス運動時には対立していたNAJCと日系文化会館は、リドレス20周年を「日系ヘリテージ・デー」と呼んで合同で祝賀し、ブライアン・マルルーニ元首相を迎えて、謝罪と補償を日系人にもたらした素晴らしい政治家として称え、リドレス合意をカナダ・ナショナリズムの成果に転化した。ところが、30周年ではNAJCは日系文化会館と決別して独自にイベントを開催した。これが何を意味するかは、実はとても奥深く興味深い問題なのだ。同書の著者・和泉氏の見解を明確に示しているのが、巻頭と巻末に置かれた日系社会の戦前のバンクーバー「朝日チーム」ブームである。これは、「リドレス後に共通的アイデンティティを失ったかに見えたカナダの日系人コミュニティに、一つの重要な集合的記憶の材料を提供した」としている。この見解が果たして日系人全体に敷衍できるかどうかである。振り返ると、朝日チームが注目されたのは、パット・アダチの著書が1992年に出てからすでに10年を経て、皆忘れかけていた頃だった。 2003年、唐突にカナダ・ベースボール殿堂入りが決まり、周囲がざわつきだした。2005年、NAJC会長グレース・トムソンが企画してバンクーバーの日系博物館で朝日チームの展示会が開催された。そして、日本では朝日関連の本2冊がす出版され、映画制作にいたった。ブームに火がついたのはこの頃である。一方、東部の日系人が連動して盛り上がったかというと、そうではなかった。トロント界隈では、アニメ、コスプレ大会で若者たちは日系も非日系も一緒になって「カワイイ！」と騒いでいた。その仕掛け人を探ると、日本政府のコンテンツ輸出政策が裏にあった。かつてリドレス運動にかかわった日系人にとって、戦後の日系人の集合的記憶は結局「強制移動」に収斂されるはずだ。「朝日チーム」ではない。確かに、リドレス合意から30年の間に、この負の遺産は風化し、一世も二世の多くも鬼籍に入った。コミュニティ内部の対立もいつの間にか消滅した。この時、日系社会はアイデンティティの核となる「戦争体験」を記憶の彼方に葬ったのかもしれない。そして、「リドレスの精神」ともいえる人権問題と取り組む意識も薄めてしまったようだ。では、これからの日系社会の「移動と運動」はどこへ向かうのだろう。カナダ日系社会はどうやら未踏の地に踏み込んだようだ。

*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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グラフィックデザイナーインターン・日本語（在宅）募集団体について: グレーターバンクーバー日系カナダ人団体（The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizensʼ Association・GVJCCA）はバンクーバーとその近郊の日系カナダ人コミュニティーを代表する非営利団体です。オフィスは先住民族の土地であるthe xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səlí̓lwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) に位置しています。

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カナダ・世界中の多文化社会とのコミュニケーションネットワークの構築・持続当団体のコミュニティーや文化的イベントを通じた、日系カナダ人の芸術や文化の理解・研究の促進日系カナダ人の歴史や文化的遺産について、またこれらの保存価値についての一般カナダ人に向けた教育カナダの市民権についての様々な責任やルールについての教育差別することなくすべての人々の権利や自由を保護し促進することメンバー、日本にルーツを持つ方々、興味のある方に向けた場を、ジャーナルの刊行という形で設けること

ウェブサイト: http://jccabulletin-geppo.ca/

募集要項当団体では、月刊紙の日本語記事を担当していただける、クリエイティブで几帳面、計画性のあるグラフィックデザイナーのインターンを募集しています。チーフエディター、日本語エディターと直接話し合い、チームメンバーとも協力して働いていただくポジションです。グラフィックデザイナーインターンの方は計画的であるかつ、毎月、寄稿者、広告主、メディアからの要望、コミュニティーからの投稿者の方々などとやりとりをしていただく必要があります。このポジションにつく方は、日本語でのコミュニケーションが可能で、やる気があり、計画性に優れ、コミュニケーション能力に富み、緊急性や締め切りを理解して働ける人物である必要があります。 InDesign, Photoshop, Gmail, Google Driveまた他のファイル共有プラットフォームに堪能である必要があります。執筆経験、ソーシャルメディア（Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter）管理経験、WordPressの経験がある方は優遇します。

勤務時間契約期間中、毎月、プレス日にかけて仕事量が多くなります。プレス日のある週は、グラフィックデザイナー・日本語エディターは、寄稿者、チーフエディター、チームメンバーといつでも連絡が取れ、プレス日までにファイルを提出する必要があります。

業務内容 • • • • • • • •

チーフエディター、日本語エディターと協力のもと、月刊紙に必要なページ、開始ページ、プリントデザインのレイアウトの決定広告担当者と協力のもと、広告のスペースとレイアウトの決定広告担当者と協力のもと、広告デザイン、ゲラの提出げっぽうエディター欄への編集後記の寄稿印刷用フォーマットの準備、プリンターへの出稿毎月、寄稿者、広告主、メディアからの要望、コミュニティーからの寄稿者とのやりとりの担当寄稿者に毎月リマインダーを送り、必要であればフォローアップをする日本語の記事部分における連絡先を管理し、ボランティアの寄稿者の方々が年一度の感謝会や他の特別なイベントへの招待が送られているか確認メールへ返信し、必要であれば他のチームメンバーへ連絡デジタル配信用のアーカイブのファイルの整理・管理

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必須条件・歓迎条件・語学力 • • • • • • • • • • •

日本語での読み書き、構成が可能（日本語ネイティブレベル）英語での読み書き（上級以上）グラフィックデザインもしくは出版物のデザイン、その他関連の経験もしくは関連した専攻の大学卒業資格 InDesign、Photoshop、Google Drive/dropboxまたクラウドストレージなどの使用経験日本語での出版物レイアウトの経験コミュニケーション能力、まとめる力、計画性に優れているプレッシャーの状況下、厳しい締め切り期限の下でも仕事ができる非営利団体での就業経験優遇在宅ワークが可能であり、自主的に働く能力がある必要なソフトウェアを持ち、仕事で使えるPCを保持していること執筆、ソーシャルメディア管理、wordpress経験があればボーナス

報酬

謝礼有り

応募方法グレーターバンクーバー日系カナダ人団体は、誇りを持って接しているコミュニティーを代表した、多様な人々の雇用を尊重しています。当団体は、多様なバックグラウンドを持った方々、BIPOC(Black, Indigenous, People of Colour)、ジェンダー・アイデンティティ、障がい者を含む、すべての方からの応募をお待ちしています。応募は、カバーレター、履歴書、ポートフォリオのリンク（持っている場合のみ）をKao（editor.geppo@gmail.com）まで、件名「グラフィックデザイナーインターン」でお送りください。書類審査に通過した方のみに連絡致します。ご応募をお待ちしています！

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ケアリー・サキヤマ

JCCA会長からのメッセージ（翻訳：チェン晶子）

会員の皆さんありがとうございました！一年任期制のGVJCCA役員が選出されました。もちろん、一年縛りにはいい面も悪い面もあるでしょう。私の場合、すべてのイベントは最後だと思って取り組んでいます。この考え方のおかげでそれぞれの瞬間に集中できるのです。これが最後の8月の会長メッセージになるかもしれないので、今年度を特別なものにしてくれたみなさんに感謝を述べます。そして、現役員の皆さん、エイプリル、ジュディ、リズ、メイ、ニッキ、ピーター、ロン、ウェンディに多大なる感謝を。みなさんの無数の努力、たくさんの笑い、貢献、情熱、意見、思いやり、そして笑顔に。ミツヨさんには、無数の制度変革の中で、我々が集中し継続するために精力的に指導していただきありがとうございました。げっぽうマガジンにおいて全信頼を置いている、カズホさん、カオさん、アキコさんには私の仕事の手助けをしていただき感謝しています。ジョン・遠藤・グリーンウェイさんの日系カナダ人への長年の貢献は唯一無二であり、あなたの柔軟性、忍耐力、そして毎月上質な月刊誌Bullteinを刊行できる能力には脱帽です。驚きです。

再度お知らせします。GVJCCAのAGMは日系センターの松の間で行われます。2022年9月17日、ミーティングは1pm開始、3pm終了予定です。レポート発表、過去一年間の活動の振り返り、新2022-2023役員の選出を行う予定です。お会いできるのを楽しみにしています。お知り合いの方の指名、もしくはご自身で役員に立候補されることを是非ご検討ください。役員の募集要項については今月号の広告（英語セクション参照）をご覧ください。最後までお読みいただきありがとうございました。サポートに感謝します！:)

この冊子が読まれる頃には、2022パウエル祭はすでに終了しているでしょう。ご家族の時間、マーケットプレイス、出し物、素晴らしい音楽と食べ物！を楽しんでいただけたようでしたら嬉しいです。2023パウエル祭が待ち遠しいと言うには早すぎるでしょうか？次回の日系カナダ人伝統料理クラスはバンクーバー日本語学校で行われます。8月13日土曜日12pmから2pm、場所は487 Alexander Streetです。素敵な人々に出会い、新しいテクニックを学んで、新しいレシピに挑戦し美味しいご飯を食べましょう。インスタグラムから過去のイベントをチェックしてみてください。https://www.instagram.com/gvjcca/?hl=en 詳しい情報は、マイケル604 609 0657 or email torabc@gmail.comまでお願いします。日系カナダ人生存者ソーシャルクラブ（GVJCCA、スティーブストンコミュニティー協会、隣組とのコラボレーション）はサンシャインバレー・タシュメミュージアムへのバスツアーを予定しています。交通運賃とお弁当は収容所生存者の皆さまへは無料です。それ以外の方は交通運賃とお弁当込みで$20です。8月26日9:30amから5:30pm、バスは日系センターにも止まります。ご参加と質問については、ヨウコさんまでお願いします。socialclub@ tonarigumi.ca or call 604-687-2172 ext. 105

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編集後記 Kazuho Yamamoto

伊坂幸太郎の小説『マリアビートル』が原作の映画『Bullet Train』が８月５日から北米で公開されます。（日本での公開は９月）ブラッド・ピットが主演でその他にも有名なハリウッドスターや北米で人気の歌手が出演するこの映画のキャスティングについて論争が巻き起こっています。日本の小説が原作であるのにも関わらず、白人や外国人のキャストが多く選ばれたことに対してJapanese American Citizens Leagueのエクゼクティブ・ディレクターのDavid Inoueは映画は Kazuho ホワイトウォッシング（白人以外の役柄に白人が起用されること）であり、ここ最近のアジア人が Yamamoto 主演を務めた映画が数々成功しているのにも関わらず、アジア人主演映画はブロックバスターにはならないという考えを肯定しようとしているとコメントしています[1]。その反面、原作を書いた伊坂幸太郎はニューヨークタイムズの取材に対して小説のキャラクターは民族的に変幻自在であると答えています[2]。実際、日本人の小説が原作のハリウッド映画が製作されることは珍しく、そのことに対してはとても喜ばしいことだと思います。しかし、ハリウッド映画におけるマイノリティ人種のキャスティングについては問題視されているのも事実です。また、この背景には経営判断を行うポジションにマイノリティ人種が少ないという問題も関わっており、複雑だと思います。『Bullet Train』がこうした課題に対してスポットライトを当てたことは確かで、この機会を無駄にしないように対話、アドボカシー活動を続けていくことが重要だと思います。 [1] Controversy builds over possible whitewashing in Brad Pittʼs ʻBullet Trainʼ by Rachael Tao AsiAmNews [2] The Japanese Author Behind ʻBullet Trainʼ Is OK That the Film Isnʼt So Japanese by Motoko Rich, New York Times

KAO (a.k.a. SleeplessKao) KAO

「パウエル祭」美味しいお祭りの食べ物や、太鼓の音に心躍る時間です。太鼓と笛の音を聞くとお祭りだなあってウキウキしますね。沖縄太鼓の皆んなも演奏の前に「Sleepless Kao」のブースに寄ってくれました。通ってる整体の先生もファミリーで遊びにきてくれ、みんな笑顔で3年ぶりの大同窓会です（笑顔）。

金曜日、テント設営ではCommunity Engagement Coordinatorのキャシーに設営リーダーを指名されるという名誉に預かり、黄色いスタッフTシャツとトランシーバーを身につけ、英語と日本語でボランティアの方達に指示を出しました。先住民族の領土であるDTESは、かつて19 世紀後半から日系カナダ人の文化が盛えていた日本町です。オッペンハイマー公園は先住民の人たちの憩いの場所でもあるので、「お互いの文化を尊重し、この聖地をお借りします」と願ってから作業に入りました。暑い中、先住民族の方、カナディアン、日系カナダ人、日本から来た留学生たち、たくさんの人たちがボランティアで頑張ってくれました。お陰様で開催中、目立った怪我も事故もなく無事にお祭りを終えることができました。陰で働いて支えてくれている人たちのなんと多いことか。私や皆んなが楽しくパウエル祭に参加してたくさんの人たちと交流ができるのもボランティアの皆さんのおかげです。心から感謝です。お祭りの設営からお店での接客、そして片付けと怒涛のように駆け巡り、めちゃくちゃ疲れるのですが、このお祭りは私にとってはなくてはならないものです。自分がカナダで日系であることを認識させてくれるコミュニティ／ファミリーですね。来年もまた元気に参加してみんなの笑顔を待ってます！。彼女なキャシーではな持ち、力言の過下も祭の縁のと言ってパウエルりは存在しないりに関与してます祭祭おおは緒にしで 0年近く一い！もう3

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年、パウエル祭！サイコー！

2022年8月号げっぽうは毎月１回、グレーター・バンクーバー日系カナダ市民協会（GV JCCA）によって発行されています。

げっぽう編集長：ジョン・遠藤・グリーナウェイ john@bigwavedesign.net 日本語編集：Kao & 山本一穂 editor.geppo@gmail.com 広告担当：アン・ジュー annejew@telus.net/604-609-0657 配布担当：マイケル・トラ・スパイアーアドミン・アシスタント：岡本光代 GV JCCA げっぽう事務所 249-6688 Southoaks Crescent Burnaby BC, V5E 4M7 Tel: 604-777-5222 Email: gvjcca@gmail.com Website: jccabulletin-geppo.ca

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2022

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Honouring our People: Breaking the silence

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Bulletin/Geppo August 2022

Articles inside

GVJCCA Annual General Meeting 7 Memories of Ucluelet

One Nikkei Voice 29 Toronto NAJC Update

Vancouver Japanese Language School 31 Tonari Gumi Corner

Greenwood’s 80th Anniversary Commemoration And Concert

Abuse Survivors Raise Concerns about True Legacy of Kogawa House

Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Interpretive Centre Society Survey