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A CONVERSATION ON QUEER MENTORSHIP WITH HIROMI GOTO + ERICA ISOMURA “I am not separate from my environment; there is a play between self and place. This isn’t to say that there isn’t a core that is solid and present. Only that the social performance of presented identity is like a dance. The core is, for me, private. I don’t know if it has a name. The social identities I inhabit and move in and among and between are feminist, JC, queer, woman, mother, etc.” – Hiromi Goto, The Bulletin, December 2007

Many people’s introduction to Hiromi Goto was through her award-winning first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, a book that explores the shifts and collisions of culture through the lives of three generations of women in a Japanese family living in a small prairie town. Goto has gone on to write a number of acclaimed books for adults as well as youth, and is in the process of releasing her first graphic novel with artist Ann Xu. In addition to writing, Goto is an editor and workshop facilitator. She has been a writer-in-residence and an instructor for a number of institutions, including Athabasca University, the University of Alberta, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Public Library, and the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

“In the palm of my hand, I delicately finger a pair of unfamiliar ID cards printed on worn pieces of coloured paper, yellow and salmon pink. The faded type reveals they were issued in the spring of 1941 with approval from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The yellow marks my great-grandmother as a Japanese National and the pink indicates my great-grandfather was a naturalized Canadian. Between my thumb and index finger, I clasp these rare and coveted discoveries: names, addresses, heights, weights, occupations, and even marks of identification on their bodies. I practise saying my ancestors’ names aloud, slowly, so I do not forget, but I have never learned to speak Japanese and am self-conscious about my pronunciation. I realize there is a third colour of these cards – white – that I am missing. White was only assigned to those who were born in Canada.” – Erica Isomura, Briarpatch, February 2019

Emerging writer and community organizer Erica Isomura is a yonsei (fourth generation Japanese Canadian) of Japanese and Chinese heritage. In 2019, Isomura’s work was selected as the winner of Briarpatch Magazine’s Writing In The Margins contest. Her writing has appeared in Room Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine, Poetry is Dead, and emerge 18 (SFU Publications, 2018), among other publications. She is a co-editor of Our Edible Roots (Tonari Gumi, 2018), a book sharing cultural food and gardening stories of Japanese Canadian elders and knowledge-keepers.

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Isomura has performed and spoken at events for the Vancouver Writers Festival, Word Vancouver, the Powell Street Festival, Heart of the City Festival, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Asian Canadian and Migration studies at UBC, and Perspectives: Anti-racism Arts Festival. In 2019, she co-organized ensoku, a four-day event for Japanese Canadian and American youth from across North America. On Saturday July 25, from 12pm – 1pm PDT, Hiromi Goto and Erica Isomura will explore the nuances of intergenerational mentorship as queer writers of colour in A Conversation on Queer Mentorship as part of the Queer Arts Festival: Wicked, running July 16 – July 26 across varied platforms. Registration is by donation. Visit queerartsfestival.com and click on the event to register.

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life! Culturally, our relationship is interesting because I am yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese Canadian) and Hiromi is a first-generation immigrant from Japan.

As a yonsei, I grew up deeply immersed in Western culture and without a lot of reference points to Japan, which may be relatable for other yonsei and gosei raised in Canada. Through our mentorship, Hiromi has introduced me to elements of Japanese literature that I would likely not otherwise learn about. For example, she has The title of your Queer Arts Festival online event is encouraged me to write zuihitsu, A Conversation on Queer Mentorship, so my first which is a classical Japanese question is, do the two of you have a mentor/men- genre I wasn’t previously familiar tee relationship. Have you been working together, with. She has also lent me a number of books by Japanese and if so, how has that unfolded or developed? authors and graphic novelists, ERICA Hiromi and I met through The Writers Studio which have offered me insight (TWS) at Simon Fraser University, where she worked into historical and contemporary as a mentor for students writing speculative fiction Japanese writing. and young adult literature. I was a student of Kevin Chong’s in the fiction cohort at the time, but I took I feel more comfortable sharing my one introductory class with Hiromi that year. After I rough work and thoughts openly finished the creative writing program, I wanted to con- with Hiromi than I would with other tinue to develop my work further and so I reached writers who don’t understand my out to Hiromi about the potential to support me as a perspectives. I appreciate our writing mentor. I spent a few months writing an ear- mutual understanding because ly career development grant for BC Arts Council and Hiromi doesn’t get hung up on found out I was awarded funding for a mentorship last the content of my writing—it isn’t fall. Since then, we’ve been meeting one-on-one to interrogated or questioned. This support my writing projects, as well as sharing learn- means the two of us can focus on ings around the literary industry, publishing, and other digging into the writing craft and improving my work as an artist, relevant topics. which is how it should be. Overall, HIROMI When Erica first approached me I was at first our mentorship seems quite rare a little uncertain – only so much that I had decided because the Canadian Literature that I was going to end my mentoring job at TWS, I industry still lacks a lot of diversity. had been teaching there for six years, and felt like it was time for a change. But I am so glad that we emHow does the mentor/mentee barked on this learning together! Because alongside relationship add depth to your talking craft, technique, professionalism, etc. we’ve work and open spaces for you also talked widely about the political, the personal, to learn more about yourself and cultural knowledge, our queer lives/personal histoothers? ries, and so much more. Outside of the conventions of an official institution (say a college for example) ERICA The intergenerational asthere is a freedom to speak and exchange on a more pect to our working relationship personal and informal level that opens up learning in is something I really cherish. I am interesting ways. Of course one must be very careful very new to the literary scene, but Hiromi has been publishing her with whom you open yourself to. work since the early 90s, when I Why might it be important to have mentors who was still an actual baby! There are share some of your myriad identities such as queer, a lot of firsts for me in this process of writing and establishing a literJC, person of colour? ary career. For example, over the ERICA I don’t think it is necessary to share overlappast couple months, I’ve begun to ping identities with a mentor, but there is no doubt write my longest piece of creative that this has enriched and affirmed my learning with non-fiction yet (currently hovering Hiromi. It feels like we have a kinship in a way—she around 6,000 words) and I’ve been is the writing auntie I never knew I needed in my

baffled that this is something I am able to do. I’m like... I don’t know where these words are coming from! But then I sit down to work and the lines keep coming—it’s a huge expansion from what I’ve written in the past. This inspired me to think that I might be able to complete a manuscript one day. I’m learning so much about my process right now and Hiromi is there to witness, support, and encourage me to keep growing and budding. As well, she can see patterns in my work that I am still discerning. Hiromi is there to push me when I don’t know what to do next. Hiromi also shows me what is possible to accomplish in a writer’s lifetime. She has written seven books, including literary novels, a series of young adult novels, a collection of short stories, a book of poetry, and has a graphic novel forthcoming, which is a dream of mine. Meanwhile, she’s raised two adult children, pursues her hobbies in nature photography, is in a loving partnership, and, from what I can see, enjoys her life. I have respect for her accomplishments as both an artist and overall as a person in the world. I didn’t grow up around professional artists and I think it’s difficult for people who choose a more stable or normative life path to understand how artists work and live. Beyond the writing itself, I’m learning more about how I can structure my life to nourish my creativity and understand the artistic process as a broader way of being in the world. HIROMI I also think intergenerational learning is so important! One of my life-long desires is to keep on learning and not get locked into a place of rigid thinking. Being in conversation with a person who is much younger than me keeps me in touch with the urgent present as experienced by someone who perceives it differently than I do. I have children who are of Erica’s generation, and Erica has her parents too, but with these relations comes an array of familial histories that may bind possible conversations and ways of listening. So I appreciate

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this opportunity to share with Erica outside of family systems. As Erica mentioned, I’m also a writer who has been doing this work for a long time. I’m at a place now where I’m finding it hard to work on new booklength projects, and feeling a little jaded. Is it perimenopause? I ask myself. Is it artistic burnout? I don’t really know. But working alongside Erica who is in the full of exploring, stretching, challenging, integrating and creating, it opens up a space inside me to feel that possibility once more. For this I’m deeply grateful.

shared with me. They were the best teachers.

ERICA I am very grateful for the mentorship of author Kevin Chong, who accepted my application into his fiction cohort of The Writer’s Studio without any actual fiction writing in my portfolio, which is a little wild and probably unheard of. I recognize that What other writers have had the most impact on Kevin took a huge chance on me you, whether as mentors or fellow writers/artists? and I learned so much from him and the other students in my coHIROMI Fred Wah was my first creative writing in- hort, who I continue to learn from structor at the University of Calgary and I arrived in his today. We graduated together in classroom, wide-eyed, angry and very ignorant about 2018, but since then we still meet racism as a system… Through his gruff but generous every two weeks (now through teachings, alongside conversations and learning Zoom). with my writing peers my understanding grew. I also learned a great deal from Aritha van Herk, and several A JC mentor who comes to mind different conversations with Roy Miki at the right time is Kathy Shimizu, who isn’t a writhad a strong effect upon my writing life. A creative er, but is a printmaker, graphic workshop with Lee Maracle in the 1990s also had a designer, taiko drummer, comprofound impact upon my ways of thinking about cul- munity organizer, and a friend. ture, race, colonization, and the body. And SKYE Lee Politically, much of my art is influalso shared important ideas with me regarding being enced by stories of my personal both a writer and a mother of young children. It made history and the history of the JC a deep impression because being able to learn from community. Kathy introduced me someone older than I was who was also a queer POC to the community through her writer meant that the challenges I was facing could be support for the kikiai collaborative (formerly known as the Japaovercome. She was living proof of it. nese Canadian Young Leaders of The writers/artists/cultural workers whom I call friends Vancouver) and informally menare also such important teachers and comrades to tored many of us younger JCs me: Rita Wong, Larissa Lai, Nalo Hopkinson, Michelle who became deeply involved in Sylliboy, Susanda Lee, Dorothy Christian, Christine community organizing, particularStewart, and Anne Stone. I’m also grateful that Wayde ly in 2015, around the same time Comptom invited me to serve as a mentor at The Writ- that the Right to Remain project er’s Studio. I learned so much about writing, teaching was happening at gallery gachet. and listening through everything that the mentees Kathy’s influence has been huge

on how I approach community arts, particularly supporting Downtown Eastside initiatives. Hiromi, I asked you a long time ago how you answer the question, “where are you from?” Your response to the question was long and thoughtful, and really quite beautiful. I was rereading it today as I was putting together these interview questions. Part of your answer contained the line, “social performance of presented identity is like a dance.” Your response acknowledges the reality that the question itself is potentially problematic and answerable in so many ways. So here we are again with a not-easily-answerable question: how do your Japanese Canadian and queer identities inform your work? HIROMI I speak to how my Japanese Canadian identity sometimes figures in my work in the response to the question below, but I’d like to speak specifically about queer identity here. If we flip the question and imagine that this question is being posed to a heterosexual author, would it even be a question? I.e. How does your heterosexual identity inform your work? I can’t recall ever seeing this… So the question is being asked because there’s a sense that there’s something different or other about this subjectivity… This is how normativi-

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ty plays out in conscious and subconscious ways. There is nothing spectacular about my queer sexuality (other than my general middle-aged hotness) – it is my sexuality, no more remarkable than anyone else’s sexuality. The only remarkable aspect of queer sexuality is that there still remains such an entrenched homophobia in so many people, institutions, and organizations. Someone I know in the writing business once asked me why I had to include a gay agenda in so many of my stories. What about the heterosexual agenda? I asked. Why do heterosexual writers include their heterosexual agenda in their stories? If your answer to that is, “Well, that’s because that’s just normal,” then you have a lot of personal work you need to do. Queer content arises in stories when the characters (like many of my friends) are queer, when there’s a love story, or a sex scene…. I have no desire to center heterosexual characters in all of my work—there are many many stories about heterosexual characters and heterosexual life in published works already. I’d also like to point out that in ancient Japan life was very queer indeed and there are classical texts from the Heian Period (like The Tale of Genji) and onward that reference gay love. Homophobia in Japan was a more recent and imported development…. Have I learned important things, been moved to tears, been filled with wonder by stories written by and about heterosexual people? Of course. So, too, should heterosexual readers be open to reading queer content. Queer audiences are also always hungry for queer representation in media. Especially queer people of colour. A lot of gay culture has been dominated by white narratives, because of white supremacy, so I think it is even more important that queer brown people can see positive and complex representations of ourselves on our own terms. A number of JC artists have started out their careers not explicitly addressing their “Japaneseness” before turning their brushes, their pens, or their lenses, to their family histories or their own sense of JC identity. Both of you have jumped right in from the start. Chorus of Mushrooms looks at the relationships between three generations of Japanese Canadian women, and Erica, much of your work-to-date has dealt with your identity as a fourth generation Asian of mixed heritage. Can you tell me more about that? HIROMI As a JC immigrant who grew up in BC and AB in the 70s and 80s white heteronormative culture had always “told” me how I was seen – “exotic” at best, despised “other” at worst. I was sick to death of being misrepresented. As a writer I could speak directly to those misrepresentations, call them out if you will, and also create representations that spoke to my ways of being and seeing. I could center myself. This is a powerful act for a person to be able to do – to name oneself instead of being named. Especially if you have come from a culture that has been systemically marginalized and oppressed.

#dailyquarantinecomic from March 27, 2020 by Erica Isomura (@ericahiroko)

ERICA There is much about my identity that has taken me years to unpack and articulate. There is something about the act of writing that enables me to share my experiences in a way that I am not always comfortable doing with people in person or at the workplace, wherever. It feels safer on the page somehow. Back in 2016, I submitted an article for The Bulletin titled, “Reflecting on racism: why race still matters in 2016,” co-written with my sister Kayla and my friends Lucas Wright, Kendall Yamagishi, Elena, and Ren Ito. These were not necessarily comfortable conversations for each of us to have over Thanksgiving dinner with our families, but they were ideas that we wanted to express as young people who saw the way our community had been historically displaced/discriminated against and made connec-

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tions to the way Black and brown communities were (and are) still being targeted. I could probably re-write that same article today in the context of ongoing police brutality, resource extraction on unceded Indigenous territories, etc. These days, my writing is more literary than journalistic, but the work comes from a similar place of wanting to use creative tools to connect with peoples’ emotions to uncover truths that are difficult to face head on. The stories that live within me and my lineage as a fourth gen JC and Chinese Canadian aren’t always pretty, but writing can make them accessible and easier to share with others. How have you been coping with the quarantine? Have you begun the process of emerging into this fraught new world? ERICA When the pandemic first began, I started creating poetry installations in my living room window, facing the street. Every week or two, I would use various materials in my house (butcher paper, tissue paper, packaging from online orders, pages from the March issue of The Bulletin, actually!) to create a new line of poetry, which was also a “found poem.” Funnily, a lot of those lines were drawn from a phone conversation that Hiromi and I had when the pandemic first began while we were discussing the uncertainties of the coronavirus.

Festival is printing for this year’s festival. I believe they will be mailing copies to their members and donors. HIROMI It’s been a struggle to write consistently for quite some time for me. I’m trying to become more comfortable with these periods of fallow. The pandemic has had a dampening effect upon any kind of creative dreaming. Thoughts would jump, it was hard to focus. I feel scattered. But Erica and I arrange writing dates on Facetime. We’d be at our desks in our own homes, and just write at the same time. This helped to tether us into a form of writing. Holding each other accountable made it easier to actually work on something. Are there any positives that have come out of this upside-down-world for you personally? Have you discovered anything about yourself or the world that has surprised you? HIROMI In some ways the pandemic has made me and my ex-husband better parents to our adult children?? (You’ll have to talk to them to confirm!) The children are both grown and I think we as parents had grown rather comfortable assuming they were okay living separate adult lives. But the children were both laid off and had more spare time. Their father and I made greater efforts to be in more regular touch, take them grocery shopping and out for walks. This has been a surprising renewal of bonds.

I found it incredibly difficult to write when the pandemic began and I first began working at my job from home. I just had no energy to put into writing about what was happening for the first month, as least, but I began drawing comics in my journal to reflect my strange day-to-day life and this bizarre “new normal.” I’ve eased up on drawing diary comics as I’ve begun to work on writing projects again, but from time-to-time I am still drawing and documenting in that way. I call the series my #dailyquarantinecomic and one of them will be printed in the art zine that Queer Art ERICA I was also temporarily laid off from my job in April because of COVID, which means I have had more time to write and live in my creative process, which to be honest, has been pretty great. Although my social circle is much smaller, I’ve become closer to the people I talk with regularly. I talk to my parents 2300 Birch Street and my Popo (my mom’s mom) over the phone more Vancouver • BC • V6H 2T2 often and my extended family chats on zoom every Tel: 604 731 1400 two weeks. A friend who lives within walking distance of me has become my pandemic bestie, which is reFax: 604 733 6700 ally sweet to have. Last year, I faced some difficult www.oakwest.net personal challenges and so I’m extremely grateful for oakwest@telus.net the people and relationships in my life at this moment. Specializing in sales and management of residential, investment and vacation properties.

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Do you see the COVID19 crisis and the subsequent lockdown impacting your writing? If so, how? HIROMI I’m trying to integrate the kind of fragmented state of my mind with some of the photos I’ve been taking. My tech-savvy partner Dana Putnam showed me how I could add text into the photos so I’ve been working some visual poems. There’s something about the materiality of this form that is very satisfying, especially when the long-form ideas are not taking shape. There is always some way to find a shape of creativity. This is good for our mind and spirit. ERICA There is a folder saved on my laptop named “coronavirus” where I have saved various fragments of writing that have come to me since the lockdown. The piece I am currently working on is about distance, both what we lose and what we gain from having it.

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

From fried balogna to fiddleheads by Sandy Usami How I could i not tell of our O-shogatsu? This is a word I only learned as an adult. For our family, it was always New Year’s Day at Ba-chan’s. My grandmother Usami was technically a nisei, among the first born in Vancouver, but her skills were well-steeped in Japanese tradition. She played shamisen, danced o-dori and made sure all of her daughters learned o-dori. My Ba-chan made all of the dishes for our family shogatsu by herself. The table was always decorated with a little snowman consisting of a mikan topped with mochi. We started with ozoni soup with mochi and proceeded to a table laden with everything else. Everything. O-nigiri, age-zushi and maki-sushi arrange artfully in lacquer containers adorned with bright red ginger; dried sardines in a bowl; sweet black soybeans with chestnuts (kuromame); kazunoko; gobo with sesame seeds; Chicken and vegetable soup, usually Japanese potatoes with carrots, daikon and lotus roots (chikuzenni, I learned this term today), kamaboko (store-bought, always a colourful variety arranged on a Japanese platter); shrimp, always with the heads on; kombu in little knots; salmon teriyaki; chow mein (I believe it was a version of the Cumberland style). At that time, the only sashimi we could get was frozen tuna, it was always presented on a bed of thinly sliced iceberg lettuce with a small dish of prepared dry mustard (pre-wasabi times). As a kid, I always looked for my ba-chan’s devilled eggs, each egg half with its own mast and sail, a fleet on a platter. Homemade baked manju, anpan and the halfmoon shaped ones (?) filled with anko. All arranged with either store-bought or Buddhist church-made steamed manju.

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To this day, my aunts wonder how their mother could have made all of this by herself in a tiny kitchen in Toronto.

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This photo from the 1970s was taken at my grandmother Usami’s house on one of many New Year’s day celebrations. Left to right: Elizabeth Nishimura, Eugene Nishimura, Patricia NIshimura, Timothy Nishimura, Ruth Usami

One of my father’s favourite dishes was fried bologna with rice. If memory serves, he would add shoyu (yech, as if it was not salty enough). Sometimes a fried egg would be added. When the rice was particularly hot, we would break an egg on top, add shoyu and mix it all together. Sticking with rice (sorry couldn’t resist the pun), often we would add green tea to rice, I know there is a name for it, but I can’t remember what it was called. As a family we would often have home-made tsukemono, either cabbage, cucumber or the daikon. My grandmother and then my mother would have a large container in the basement weighted down with bricks if memory serves. I think rice with umeboshi was a tradition from my mother’s side, she would have it with rice and tea whenever she did not feel well. My mother’s side. My mother loved telling the story of her father occasionally cooking for the family in Nakanoshu-ku. This ‘settlement’ of Nikkei from Sendai was on the north shore of the Fraser across from

Don and Lion islands. My grandfather seems to have made friends with people of different nationalities. She remembers him making pancakes, a dish he learned from a Sikh man. My maternal great-grandmother had a still in Nakanoshuku. Apparently that was a common thing. My uncle tells the story of her having an agreement with the Mounties. While kids would run through the settlement warning that the mounties were on their way, my great-grandmother would hide her still under floorboards and stand directly overtop. The mounties would check everywhere except where she was standing and leave. Family myth? Maybe. Lastly, I remember walking with my mother and grandmother through woods in Ontario in the 1970s. All of a sudden my grandmother noticed fiddleheads growing among the trees. As a young teenager, I was mortified when she started to pick them with obvious glee. A hakujin woman walking the trail was greeted by my grandmother who, with a giggle and holding a fiddlehead to her mouth in the universal gesture for food, exclaimed in broken English “eat, good, mmm, good eat.” Oh-oh, not the last. I am prompted to remember searching everywhere for matsutake mushrooms in Ontario with my father. He bought and read so many books about mushroom habitat and forest growth. We never did find any. Sandy Usami is a freelance graphic designer. One of the founding members of Isshin Daiko at the Toronto Buddhist Temple, she has now forgotten every song we have ever played and blames it on Covid 19.

2020 TONARI GUMI AND GREATER VANCOUVER JCCA CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC REBOOTED! The 2020 Tonari Gumi and Greater Vancouver JCCA Charity Golf Classic has been rescheduled to take place on Sunday, August 23, 2020 at Meadow Gardens in Pitt Meadows. This year’s tournament will also commemorate the 55th Anniversary of the first JCCA tournament held in 1965. We know that many tournaments have been cancelled because of the novel coronavirus and many of you miss being able to get together with others in the community. We’re pleased that, in cooperation with Meadow Gardens, and fully consistent with the latest COVID-19 guidance, our tournament will be able to go ahead. While the banquet will be socially distanced, we will have a fun-filled day with all the regular tournament competitions (e.g. longest drive, closest to the hole, putting contest, raffle, etc.). We will have both the traditional “Handicapped Flight” (for experienced golfers) and a “Texas Scramble Flight” (for those more interested in a fun time). There will be the same number of prizes for each group. Tee-off times will be based on the number of registrations and whether Fraser Health approves a shotgun start. Please check for event details and updates prior to the tournament at www.tonarigumi.ca/events/tg-golf/. FEES $175 per golfer (includes green fees, power cart for two, prizes, and a socially distanced banquet). REGISTRATION DEADLINE August 15, 2020 at 5pm. Everyone must submit a completed registration form available at www.tonarigumi.ca/tonari-gumi-events/golf-registrations/> PAYMENT On-line payment is available at the registration page above. Cheques should be made out to “Tonari Gumi”, and mailed to #101 – 42 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1M7 SPONSORSHIPS Those interested in being a sponsor should go to www.tonarigumi.ca/tonari-gumi-events/golf-tournament-sponsorships

LIMELIGHT: MARY KITAGAWA AWARDED HONORARY DEGREE FROM UBC The Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program (ACAM) and the Asian Canadian Community Engagement Initiative (ACCE) are delighted to congratulate Keiko Mary Kitagawa on the occasion of being awarded an Honorary Degree from UBC. As an advocate for human rights and racial justice, Mary is widely admired for her tireless efforts to preserve histories of racism in Canada, including the wartime uprooting, dispersal, and incarceration of Japanese Canadians that she personally experienced as a child. At UBC, she is perhaps best known for leading a successful campaign to recognize the 76 Japanese Canadian students who were forcibly removed from the University at the start of the Second World War. After these students were awarded honorary degrees in 2012, ACAM and ACCE were established to advance UBC’s engagement with Asian Canadian communities. Along with her husband Tosh, Mary has mentored numerous students, staff, and faculty over the years and continues to take an active role in anti-racist education. In 2018, she was appointed to the Order of British Columbia. While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic makes it impossible to celebrate Mary’s Honorary Degree in person at the moment, her commitments continue to inform our work during these challenging times. This fall, ACAM will be offering a new course on Asian Canadian history taught by Professor Laura Ishiguro, which will build on Mary’s work as an educator and activist. We look forward to sharing more of her accomplishments with the UBC community in the months to come.

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The Nikkei National Museum online database contains a photo of Thomas Shoyama, circa 1930, putting on an unnamed golf course. Dressed in grey trousers and a white t-shirt with slicked back hair, Shoyama looks every bit the devil-may-care dandy, belying the societal and legal restrictions faced by Asian Canadians at the time. It would be many years before all legal barriers would be lifted, well after the end of World War Two. This year, the Tonari Gumi/GVJCCA golf tournament, in the face of restrictions imposed by a global pandemic continues a 55-year tradition. Originally scheduled for June, the tournament will run August 23, with physical distancing protocols in place. Henry Wakabayashi recollects the origins of the JCCA Golf Tournament in the mid-sixties following the return of Japanese Canadians to the west coast: “This popular event was started by Ken Yada, Arthur Hara, Steve Yamamoto and Mush Saito, I believe in either 1964 or 65 in Chilliwack. For those who remember, Japanese Canadians were not allowed to be members of any private golf clubs and it was also difficult to hold a golf tournament in Vancouver as there was very limited access to public courses. So the first JCCA tournament was held at the Chilliwack Golf Club (18 holes) and a nine hole course owned by a Scotsman (9 holes x 2). We managed to get the full complement of 144 players as we had Nikkei from Kamloops and Boundary, although since we did not have enough originally, we invited our Chinese friends. In fact the Scotsman was so pleased to have all our players come from Vancouver to his little course, he suggested to us, ‘I have 9 holes, property to expand to 18 and this very quaint clubhouse. If you boys (nikkeis) are interested, I will sell it to you for $90,000. So get 90 of you together and put up $1,000 each and you can have your own club.’ We missed a great opportunity, but only making about $400 per month, and all of us with young babies, we did not have the resources. We did so well of course, that we did not have to invite our Chinese friends the following year!” continued on page 19

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By Judy Hanazawa Happy July everyone! I hope now that it is July, life is beginning to provide positive and hopeful steps toward a post-COVID normalcy. In the June message, I reported a racism incident which two friends and I experienced. We reported to the Richmond RCMP by the end of May after some initial hesitancy. After giving our statements we were reassured by the RCMP the incident was a hate crime, but it was uncertain the offender would ever be found. By mid-June Constable Rao who we met when reporting, updated me they had questioned staff at Garry Park where the incident happened, but people did not recall anyone fitting the description we gave. After discussing general concerns about the rising incidents of anti Asian racism, Constable Rao also stated their Community Relations Unit was interested

in participating in a community forum on what can be done about racism incidents. I let him know the GVJCCA would also be willing to participate in such an event. Unsurprisingly, during June there was news of a poll of 500 persons of Chinese ancestry indicating 49 percent confirmed they were targets of racism since COVID-19. Many were worried about further backlash for their children and 60% reported adjusting their daily routine due to the threat of being racially targeted. June 21 was also National Indigenous Peoples`Day. Japanese Canadians stand in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples on justice, land rights, and equality matters which Canada has yet to reconcile and make right. We are aware there have been recent killings of Indigenous people at the hands of law enforcement and more recently it has come to light there have been racist practices against Indigenous patients treated in some BC hospitals. There is so much to do still to achieve lasting change to eliminate hate and systemic racism. continued on page 19

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FREEDOM OR SAFETY: LESSONS FROM JAPANESE CANADIAN INTERNMENT TO COVID-19 by ZoĂŤ-Blue Coates We are in a global pandemic. With social distancing in place, COVID-19 has changed the day to day of all Canadians in a way not seen since the world wars. Our economy and citizens are dedicating their time to fight a virus that could cause irrevocable damage if we do not take the necessary precautions. Usually bustling with tourists, downtown Victoria is deserted due to social distancing.

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As a history student and research assistant on Landscapes of Injustice, I am curious of what parallels can be drawn between the past and the challenges we currently face as we live in this historic moment. Evidently, a common thread between the history of Japanese Canadian internment and the COVID-19 pandemic is whether our collective responsibility to our fellow Canadians presently and going forward outweighs our individual rights to freedom, and who has the authority to tell us that it is our responsibility. The use of the War Measures Act enacted to intern Japanese Canadians, Germans, Italians, and Jewish refugees of German and Austrian descent during WWII mirrors the ways that law enforcement is being used around the world to ensure that people follow social distancing. The municipal government of Vancouver has declared a state of emergency and amended a by-law to fine up to $50,000 for those who fail to comply. This bill has not yet been enacted, but given that Vancouver is the most expensive city in Canada it is likely that this state of emergency will disproportionately affect marginalized communities like the homeless and drug users on the Downtown Eastside. These communities rely on gathering at safe injection sites to keep from overdosing in isolation as we have seen in this Opioid epidemic whereby 439 drug related deaths were reported in 2018 by Vancouver Coastal Health.

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In the case of Japanese Canadian internment, the Special Committee on Orientals in British Columbia shared a report and recommendations on Japanese and Chinese Canadian populations in British Columbia in December of 1940. Summary point 44 argued that the committee was concerned anti-Japanese sentiments in White-Canadian communities would result in riots. The concern over anti-Japanese riots combined with fear of the resources needed to protect the country from Japanese loyalty can be seen as a factor in the internment of all persons of Japanese origin. While the Canadian government allegedly interned Japanese Canadians for their individual safety and the collective safety of all Canadians, they did so through the seizure of land, private property, monetary funds and interruption of civil rights. Unlike Japanese Canadian internment, social distancing is being used for the collective safety and health of all Canadians regardless of their race or nationality, but these measures can have a disproportionate impact. History has shown that internment was used as a tool that hindered the freedom and safety of some for the freedom and safety of all Canadians. Similarly, marginalized people who rely on foodbanks, shelters, and safe injection sites are having to sacrifice their freedom and safety as facilities that keep them alive close to meet the criteria of social distancing. As we continue to stay home to keep COVID-19 at bay and avoid overloading our healthcare system; it is essential that we not take the roofs over our heads for granted, nor the food and supplies that we have in our homes. Our freedom and safety is a privilege that often comes at the expense of others. continued on page 13

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AMID COVID-19 by Jordan Stanger-Ross I think I may have learned something new about the history of racism the other day in a neighbourhood store. Sometime near the beginning of everything now happening, I walked into the Country Grocer by my house. For a grocery, it’s a homey kind of a place, a place of familiar faces and smiles. One of the stock clerks, Neil, is a student at UVic, and once, maybe a year ago now, the two of us helped an older shopper navigate the condiments aisle. It’s that kind of a place.

of people and broad enough to lead them through the various experiences and situations of an average modern life.” Racism worked because it offered normal people a way to interpret the world and to understand their place within it. Historians know that racism is more than just a subjective experience. It gets written into law and it organizes opportunities. It builds walls. But racism is also a way of experiencing the world.

In the short time I spent in the Country Grocer, I felt the tension between two big stories. One was a story So, a day or two after UVic cancelled face-to-face classes, I went to the about a peaceable Canada, a place of goodness and store. Everything looked normal to me. So much so, that, for my first few wellbeing. Another was a story of pathogens and panmoments there, I felt a rush of wellbeing. Canadians will pull through the demics. What has struck me afterwards was not that COVID crisis, I suddenly felt. The shelves weren’t depleted by hoarders. one was true and the other false, but rather how quickly The place felt as it always had. I was reassured by feeling that this was and profoundly the story of COVID could displace a Canada. A place of decency, where people, in quiet fellowship, show story of Canada. respect for one another. We’ll get through this together, I suddenly felt. And looking back on the experience, I feel that perhaps, This image of Canada is of course naïve, even as it also holds some truth. in seeing other people as biological threats, I someBut, for those first few moments in the Country Grocer, I wasn’t making how got inside, as I never had before, the subjective an argument. Rather, I was just feeling something. I was feeling that experience of racism. Of seeing true strangers in the everything would be okay. Like many of us, I had been reading about world. Of desperately wanting to be back home, among partisan rancour in the United States, lock-downs in China, and chaos my own people, safe. The repulsion I felt from others in Italy. But Canada, I felt as walked through the doors of a familiar local was matched by my desire to just be among my own. store, Canada really is different.

My wish for the coming months is for us all to be critical Then, as I pushed my cart through the aisles, starting with produce, then of the collective stories that will be told. I’m pledging baked goods, and on to restock my peanut butter and Nutella supplies to be attentive to how we relate to one another. I’ll (essential goods with three kids shut-in), as I moved through the store, I question what the word “we” means in this context, and who is regarded as a stranger. This, I think, is what began to experience people as I never had before. history calls us to do in the present day. I began to experience them as threats. Other shoppers, clerks, even the familiar ones, they all felt like biological hazards, dangerous, in their Jordan Stanger-Ross is an Associate Professor of bodies, to me and my family. I wanted to get away from them and back History at the University of Victoria and the Project home as quickly as possible. And, in the process of finding others so Director of Landscapes of Injustice. strange, I was also estranged from myself. I felt uneasily self-conscious in my physical movements and in my interactions with other people. It was an experience of fear. The change was, I think, mostly invisible. Perhaps the woman at the checkout realized something was off (it seemed to me that she did, but then again, she was a threat, right?), but for the most part, I proceeded with outward calm, I got what I needed, paid-up, and went home. But inside of me, the story into which the Country Grocer fit, as well as my place in that story, had changed markedly. Racism was one of the big stories of the 19th and 20th centuries. Hannah Arendt described it as “strong enough to attract and persuade a majority

Zoë-Blue Coates is a fifth year undergraduate student at the University of Victoria studying history and Indigenous studies. Her main focus is on history in Canada and the ways that the public learns about lesser known events like Japanese Canadian internment. As a work study student Zoë-Blue worked on the family research case files to ensure that the Japanese Canadian community can learn about their family’s past.

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As theatre venues around the world began to close their doors dues to the COVID-19 crisis Boca del Lupo Artistic Director Sherry Yoon, and Artistic Producer Jay Dodge were forced to confront the question, “What is the essence of theatre?” and from there, “How can we keep the ember burning for those who love performance as much as we do?” Watching from home as productions went online and performances carried on through Zoom and other online platforms, they came to the conclusion that they needed to find a different path in keeping with their answer to the first question: “Theatre is live, theatre is communion, theatre is something to be experienced together, in the flesh.” Drawing on their experience with Micro and Immersive performance and taking every precaution to keep audiences, staff and artists safe, Yoon and Dodge devised two unique ways to breathe “liveness” into theatre during these extraordinary, unsettling times: Red Phone and Plays2Perform@Home, both of which blur the line between audience and performer. Red Phone takes place between two hand-crafted, fully enclosed phone booths outfitted with a vintage red phone and an integrated teleprompter. Two at a time, audience members engage each other in a five-minute conversation written by a Canadian writer. The act of having the conversation with an unseen partner provides an anonymity that adds to the intimacy of the performance, encouraging participants to be the actor in their own theatrical experience. Described as the theatrical equivalent to singing in the shower, Red Phone is free of charge and open three days a week. Anyone can walk up and into the booths with a friend or family member and spend five minutes engaging in some of the most urgent, touching, thought provoking conversations written by some of Canada’s most exciting writers. The current collection of Red Phone scripts includes contributions from Governor General Award-winner Hiro Kanagawa (Vancouver), Metis artist/actor/di-

rector Keith Barker (Toronto), award winning actor/writer/director Karen Hines (Calgary), writer/musician/ filmmaker Ivan Coyote (Whitehorse/Vancouver), and award-winning Boca del Lupo Artistic Producer Jay Dodge (Vancouver) among others. Plays2Perform@Home takes a different approach, with Boca del Lupo commissioning four Canadian playwrights to pen scripts to be performed around the dinner table, picnic blanket or campfire this summer. Working with Valerie Thai, the award-winning head designer and art director of Adbusters, each writer is creating 10 to 20 minute plays with three to eight characters. which will be packaged up in a boutique box set and delivered to your home. P2P@ Home asks the audience to take a leading role in creating a piece of theatre with the close friends and family they have chosen to be a part of their “bubble”. The first playwrights contributing scripts, ranging from “Kitchen Sink Drama” to “Satirical Farce”, are Hiro Kanagawa, Jovanni Sy, and Karen Hines. Red Phone runs on Granville Island, from July 1 to August 22 Thursday to Saturday 1pm to 5pm Admission is free, walk ups are encouraged, and donations welcome Designated timeslots are available through bocadellupo.com Plays2Perform@Home is available for order online through bocadellupo.com and in person at the storefront office on Granville Island #100-1398 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC Hours are Thursday to Saturday 1pm to 5pm, July 1 to August 22 Box Sets available for $30 for 3 plays The Bulletin spoke to actor and playwright Hiro Kanegawa by email.

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HIRO KANAGAWA First of all, like the rest of us, I’m sure your life has been turned upside down by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. How have you been dealing with the current state of affairs? On a practical level, I’m fortunate to have my wife and two kids. On a day-to-day basis, we’ve really done well. We have enough space at home so we can get away from one another, and we’re also fortunate to live in Port Moody – we can be in wilderness very quickly. I’ve stayed in touch with friends and extended family via social media and Zoom. Some poker buddies and I even managed to keep our weekly Friday night poker games going by combining Zoom and an online poker app. As for work, I’m fortunate to have enough of a voice career that I was able to have some work despite the complete shut down of film, TV and theatre. And as a writer, I’ve actually been quite busy working on innovative projects like this one with various companies from across the country. On a spiritual level, I’ve had good days and bad days. But I accepted early on that COVID would be with us for a long, long time, so I got on with life after the first couple of weeks. We’re extremely fortunate to live in BC which has handled COVID as well as anywhere in North America. That makes it easier. Many of us have seen you in your numerous film and television roles, which I suppose is your public face, but you’re a well-respected writer as well. Your works include 2017’s Indian Arm, for which you won the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language Drama. Have you always been a writer, and how does it mesh with your acting experiences? Many people who know me as an actor are not aware that I am also a writer and have been longer than I’ve been an actor. I wrote collaborative pieces with Boca del Lupo, Rumble Theatre and others all through the 1990s. My first professionally-produced play The Tiger of Malaya, premiered at Factory Theatre and the National Arts Centre in 2003. I also spent five years working as a television story editor on shows such as Da Vinci’s City Hall, Intelligence and Blackstone. I probably had an ambition to be a writer long before I considered acting as a career. Obviously, the work that writers and actors do is enriched by various life experiences, so certainly my experience writing informs my acting and vice versa. I think being an actor-writer tends to make me less precious about both. These two projects by Boca del Lupo sound really great. Have you worked with them before? I was a contributing writer on a Boca play called Hold Your Head Tight. I’ve also written short pieces for their Micro Performance Series and another event at the Fishbowl space on Granville Island. Prior to that, Sherry Yoon was actually the lead actor in the play I wrote for my MFA at SFU. I also directed her in a couple other short pieces around that time. So Red Phone and Plays2Perform@Home are continuations of a decades-long collaboration.

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Red Phone sounds like a compelling project. Not only are the participants non-actors, they can’t see each other. How did this impact your writing of the script? I come from a performance art background, so non-traditional theatre is in my blood. I like to go “meta” when I venture outside the confines of traditional theatre and that is most definitely what I did with both Red Phone and P2P. Regarding P2P, you’re again writing for non-actors. What is alive for you in the concept of people performing together in their own homes? P2P arose from the fact that live theatre is cancelled due to the COVID lockdown. That’s the aspect of the project that makes P2P different from Red Phone. Red Phone wasn’t necessitated by any outside events, but P2P is happening because we otherwise can’t have live theatre. My piece for P2P is informed by the awareness of what we’ve lost: the human connection. Do you see this project growing wings, with people recording and/or sharing their performances with others? That’s hard to say. I don’t know that it’s anyone’s intent that these pieces be recorded on video and shared online. My friend Michel-Marc Bouchard shared a poignant image on social media recently: there’s a theatre production happening on a computer screen, and the caption underneath says, “Ceci n’est pas du theatre.” P2P was conceived as a way for audience members to experience something like live theatre in their homes or other spaces in their lives. I think recording that experience on video takes it out of the realm of live theatre. Is there anything else you’d like to add? The live performing arts sector is already in severe distress and many companies and organizations will be struggling for their very survival in the weeks and months to come. The human cost in terms of lives and careers curtailed and put on hold is incalculable. We certainly need more projects like P2P, but we also need theatre-goers and patrons of the arts to support their local theatres and theatre artists as much as they are able to, in any way they can. There is a misconception that the arts in Canada receive so much in government subsidies that they will do just fine regardless of whether there is an audience. In fact, government subsidies account for a small fraction of the operating costs of most performing arts companies. Without ticket revenues, the existence of many of our iconic performing arts institutions is very much in jeopardy. We all have to pull together now and start the work of keeping the arts alive during these dark times so that they can come back in full glory when it’s safe to turn the lights back on.

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The GVJCCA, Toronto NAJC and the NAJC are members of Act2EndRacism. It has been a genuinely positive experience engaging with this network, listening to the stories and working with other Asian Canadian groups to address anti Asian racism. We stand with the Black Community in their time of need. We also acknowledge and stand with Indigenous and First Nations People in their ongoing fight for justice, inherent rights and self-determination. As Asian Canadians it is so important to use our voices, be heard, and join with others in fighting bigotry and systemic racism. Working concretely in partnership with other communities is empowering as we urge government to support, collaborate and partner with civil society. From July 1, 2020 forward, Let us all persevere together for as long as it takes to permanently eradicate systemic racism. The following statement was released on July 1, 2020.

CANADA DAY STATEMENT As Canada celebrates its 153rd birthday with fireworks, we must also acknowledge this day holds another meaning for some Chinese Canadians in history. Canada’s “National Dream” for a railway was realized in 1885, which helped unite and give birth to a nation. The Last Spike ceremony excluded the Chinese railway workers, who blasted through the Rockies, laid the tracks, and by the thousands, gave their lives. The government then moved to restrict Chinese immigration to Canada with a Head Tax, $50 in 1885 and $500 by 1903. In 1923, Parliament passed the Chinese Exclusion Act excluded Chinese immigrants from entering the country. This law passed on Canada Day became known as “Humiliation Day” for the Chinese community. The racist legislation was repealed in 1947. While there is indeed much to celebrate on Canada Day, we should also take the time to reflect and on historical wrongs and racism that form an integral part of Canada. We must continue to acknowledge the devastating impact of Residential Schools on Canada s Indigenous Peoples, the demolition of Africville in Nova Scotia, the Komagata Maru and Canada’s past Anti-Indian Immigration Policies, the Internment of Japanese Canadians in the Second World War, While fear and hatred against the Chinese or “Yellow Peril” has resurfaced with racist attacks throughout Canada during COVID-19, we have also seen hope and courage provided by essential workers, especially of Asian origin, in the health, food and service sectors. We also continue to hear a loud and increasingly vocal and global movement fighting to dismantle systemic racism. We see protesters worldwide continuing to fight for justice after the murder of George Floyd along with other Black lives lost. Indigenous and other racialized groups are pushing even harder to envision a truly more inclusive community for all Canadians. In that spirit, we recommend a National Film Board documentary, In the Shadow of Gold Mountain, telling the story of the alternate meaning of Canada Day for Chinese Canadians.

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by Lorene Oikawa Summer is here and our thoughts turn to festivals. 2020 is looking very different because of COVID-19. Festivals have been postponed, transformed into virtual online events and even a “reverse parade” where people stay in their car and drive through fair grounds to see entertainment at various stations. The NAJC encourages everyone to support the efforts of our member organizations and community organizations who rely on the proceeds from their events. Also, please consider supporting the non-profit organizations providing elder care for Japanese Canadians such as Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing, and Momiji Health Care, and publications like Nikkei Voice and The Bulletin which provide an important connection for our community. The COVID-19 pandemic also slowed down processes for the National Association of Japanese Canadians. The NAJC has used the time to do a considerable amount of work including a deeper dive on the NAJC report, Recommendations for Redressing Historical Wrongs Against Japanese Canadians in BC, which was presented to the BC Minister of Tourism, Arts, and Culture, on November 14, 2019. We conducted provincial stakeholder engagement to further develop and clarify our recommendations. We received a response to our report from the provincial government and incorporated their feedback. Specific asks will include a number of initiatives in health and mental wellness; culture and community building; education; heritage; acknowledgement; and combating racism. These specific asks will be presented to the BC government at upcoming meetings. Your positive response to our online sessions is appreciated and we are continuing our online programming. It’s been a great way to connect during this pandemic. It’s also been a wonderful opportunity to bring people together from across the country to have important discussions such as our NAJC Human Rights Committee’s discussion about racism today and actions we can take. The NAJC Arts, Culture & Education Committee is organizing sessions so we can meet members of our community who are doing great work in the arts and culture fields, and also participate in some fun activities. In the most recent session we learned how to make three types of face masks which will help protect us. We will also continue to have “chats” with some of our partner organizations such as Landscapes of Injus-

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tice and learn about the accessible data base which will help Japanese Canadians access documents about their families’ uprooting and dispossession. We have a webpage listing our online programming and a placeholder for resource information from past sessions. In addition to the NAJC online programming we will also post our member organizations’ programming and speaker events involving the NAJC. Check it out at najc.ca/online-programs. Also, sign up for NAJC e-news at najc.ca/subscribe/ to get updates on our programming and also check for news at najc.ca One of the commemorative days we will be acknowledging this summer is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on August 9. There are about 370 million Indigenous Peoples living in about 90 countries. They represent less than five percent of the world population, but about 15 percent are represented in poverty statistics. In Canada, we also see

the disproportionate representation in poverty numbers and in the numbers of those who are incarcerated in our prison system. Also, a 2019 report by Statistics Canada found a substantial and consistent gap in life expectancy for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit populations compared with Non-Indigenous populations across time periods. Although there is diversity in Indigenous populations, they share disadvantages including the effects of colonization and the trauma and intergenerational trauma of past and present racism, and many social determinants of health leading to poorer health outcomes. We are also calling out for an end to systemic racism and the violence against Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour. We issued a statement

about Black Lives Matter which is posted on the NAJC website: najc.ca/najc-statement-on-black-lives-matter. We stand with the Black community in their time of need and this does not diminish the importance of any other group of people.

website: najc.ca/get-involved-with-your-najc.

Our work on anti-Asian racism continues. The NAJC Human Rights Committee has organized one online session recently and is continuing to collect data on racist verbal and physical attacks against Asian Canadians. The survey is on the NAJC website: najc.ca/confronting-and-reporting-racism-the-najc

The National Association of Japanese Canadians Annual General Meeting will take place on October 3, 2020 and will be a virtual event. The conference has been cancelled because of safety concerns.

Deadlines are coming up for the Young Leaders Fund on July 19, 2020 and the Community Development Fund on July 31, 2020. The Endowment Fund is closed for this year. Next year’s deadline will be March 31, 2021. More info at najc.ca.

As provinces start re-opening, we urge everyone to continue to take precautions. Keep social/physical distancing, wash your hands and avoid touching your face, stay home when sick, and avoid large gatherings. We Volunteers are our strength and help us do all the must do all we can to prevent a catastrophic second wave. important work needed by our community. We still need volunteers for our committees. Learn how you The NAJC National Executive Board wishes you and your loved ones a can make a difference. Information is on the NAJC wonderful, safe summer.

JCCA continued Included here is a letter sent to the Richmond News by my friend Mary Wilson about the killing of George Floyd. Mary is a friend of the Japanese Canadian community. She is a retired social worker who worked for many years at Mt. St. Joseph Hospital periodically assisting Japanese Canadian seniors and their families with long term care services. She established and has organized Richmond Black History Month since 2016. She has volunteered at GVJCCA events and upon our many discussions over the last few years about additional ways for communities to work together to combat racism, her letter presented here makes it clear the time for action and change is NOW. The GVJCCA stands with Black people in Canada, the US and around the world against the oppression, injustice and too often, deadly systemic racism, perpetrated against them. I am hoping for community members that July brings sunshine and time to enjoy the beauty around us. I know it is difficult to focus upon racism but I am also filled with much appreciation and admiration for the fighters, partners, supporters, allies in this battle. The chance which is upon us now, to create a lasting better society – to achieve systemic change, to end systemic racism, I believe, can actually succeed, so long as we keep working and travelling together on the long and hard road ahead.

Editorial continued In the face of the great upheaval roiling North America today, brought about by long-entrenched, systemic racism, it is easy to see the ability to join a golf club as a quaint struggle from a bygone time. In truth, it is part of the same continuum, those small victories serving to highlight how much more work there is to do. It also

Letter to the Editor I grew up Black in America with too many stories like that of George Floyd. Stories of racism, injustice, inequality, police injustice towards my community. No matter how many times it happens, nothing prepares me for the reality of the situation. To turn on the TV and watch George Floyd being killed by policemen in public, dying in the street, in pain, begging for breath left me speechless, extremely sad and in a state of disbelief. Is this what they’re saying, that Black men are expendable!!! our fathers, brothers, husbands, friends??? What was once done to us by the police in the dark is now done for all to see. Is the killing of Black people being normalized!!!!! The Civil Rights Movement of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X continues, RACISM, INJUSTICE AND INEQUALITY MUST STOP. WE NEED TO SPEAK OUT WHERE EVER WE SEE INJUSTICE, INJUSTICE TOWARDS ONE GROUP IS INJUSTICE FOR ALL. The death of George Floyd has been a call for action to the world. We all need to stand together to fight RACISM AND INJUSTICE. Thank you to the responders against racism directed toward the Black Community and all communities. Whoever and wherever you are. Non-violence is the key as spoken by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. COMMUNITIES NEED TO JOIN TOGETHER WE NEED TO DO MORE TO FIGHT RACISM, INJUSTICE AND INEQUALITY Mary Wilson Richmond Black History Month Organizer

reminds us that we, as a community that has suffered under the yoke of racism in its many guises, must stand up for those who suffer today under a system that may appear fair and just on the surface, but hides layer upon layer of inequality and injustice.

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPANESE CANADIANS

by Terry Watada

NAJC.CA

TERRY WATADA

A COUNTRY DOG In a recurring dream of mine, I am in total darkness. I can’t move; can’t see a thing, but I hear a dog barking in the distance. It is an anxious and persistent barking. Like a hungry dog, not for food, but affection. I feel a tingling in my stomach, which soon goes away for I know where I am: the Takahashi farm.

I once approached the dog to pet him, but Harry stopped me. No affection was ever shown to the dog, it was only fed and watered. It was a guard dog and needed to be starved of affection to make it react to any strangers on the property.

I believe there was barbecued or teriyaki chicken legs as well. To top it all off, there was homemade cake and cold, fresh watermelon from the nearby fields. Lloyd’s and my face literally dripped with the juice. What a mess, but it was good mess.

I thought the practice cruel, but it was common, I was told. Harry, a man I should’ve called Uncle but Takahashi, Mizuno, Ito, these are the families my par- never did, said all the farms in the ents knew who owned farms around the Toronto area. area did the exact same thing. When I was a kid (from about eight to my early teens), I spent a few summers there since we used to visit them from time to time to catch up and their son, my cousin Lloyd, could enjoy dinner together. keep me company, and my father I later found out that Harry Takahashi, Mizuno-san, and wanted me to learn farming ways, Billy Ito (a nisei and two issei) used to work for my dad hard labour in other words. Picking in the Jikemura logging camp in BC before WWII. My vegetables was backbreaking work. dad was the foreman. Harry consequently addressed I also learned to ride a bicycle, shoot him as boshin. to get rid of field rodents (something To honour their friendship, the farmers used to come I didn’t enjoy), and attend drag racto Toronto during the harvest to drop off bushels of es at the local track. I went to see produce for our family. Potatoes, cucumbers, corn, Lloyd play baseball. Harry and his beets, egg plant, tomatoes, and other vegetables. I nisei wife, Irene (who could speak helped Dad take the bounty down to the cold storage English flawlessly), apparently owed area under the basement stairs. In celebration, my mom my father a great deal. He lent them and the other moms cooked a wonderful meal of okazu $1,000 to buy the farm in the first (usually beef and chopped cabbage flavoured with place. Hence the free produce and shoyu), maguro, and gohan (of course). I was told to close ties. Besides, Harry’s mother order a few dishes from Eden Chinese Food down the was my mother’s cousin, our only street: char shiu tofu (my dad’s favourite), Cantonese real relatives.

The parents spent the evening talking and laughing about old times. Lloyd and I played with his toys or later, we listened to his Elvis Presley record collection. He was not a Beatles fan. He was appalled during our adolescence when I played him the first Led Zeppelin album. He commented with a certain amount of disdain, “This is the kind of music you like?” Then again, he learned to play the accordion.

photo: Tane Akamatsu

chow mein, and sweet and sour pork. Japanese chow mein was also on hand with brown noodles from the Ogino Trading Company in town. Ogino also made kamaboko, tofu, and other products. All available at Dundas Union Grocery Store downtown. It was quite a feast.

The highlight of all the visits with the Takahashis was the corn roast on August evenings. An abundance of the golden cobs of corn boiled in a tub over a wood burning fire. I can still taste the crunch of the corn My most vivid memories revolved around visiting the flavoured by oozing and melted butTakahashi farm. Their ranch style house was up a long ter. Mom and Mrs. Takahashi (never dusty driveway off a side road. As we approached the called her Aunt or Irene) made the place, a dog always greeted us with loud barking as maze gohan with gobo or steamed it pulled against its chain solidly fixed to a doghouse. rice, along with inari sushi (we called it age zushi) and maki zushi.

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When the evening ended, I was piled into the backseat of the car, and with no seatbelt, I fell asleep listening to the dull voices of the CBC, though once I heard Hockey Night in Canada. It was very soothing. But as we left the farm, I heard the dog barking frantically, not so much bidding us farewell, I’m sure, but begging for attention. The fate of a country dog. These days, my parents, Harry and Mrs. Takahashi, the Mizunos and the Itos are all gone, and I seldom, if ever, see their children and grandchildren, not even Lloyd. And as I walk the neighbourhood streets at night, I’ll hear a dog barking in the distance, unseen but very present. I am instantly transported to those days of family, abundant and delicious food, and a poor, sad, suffering dog.

CrossCurrents

with Masaki Watanabe

TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN ESPECIALLY COUPLES LIVING IN ISOLATION A Japanese brain specialist and a best-seller writer has come up with brilliant techniques for greatly improving communication between males and females, especially between couples living in forced isolation due to thre Covid-19 pandemic.

asked “Do I to take them all by myself?” The woman says, “Normally, I would have gotten upset, telling him ‘What are you talking I’m doing all the cleaning inside!’” But she remembered what Dr Kurokawa wrote about, and thought maybe he was just confirming. So she just said “That’s right,” and her husband said “OK” and took the other two bags right away.

gush out at once as if “strung together like beads. The triggers can be divided into “positive triggers,” such as happy, delicious and cute, and “negative triggers” like scary, hard to bear and deplorable. Because of maternal instinct that tells them they cannot raise their children properly unless they protect themselves, so the tendency is that “negative triggers” for evading dangers are more likely to function.

Ihoko Kurokawa is an IT researcher and author of two best sellers, Tsuma no Torisetu (Handling Manual of Wives) and Otto no Torisetu (Handling Manual of Husbands). Dr Kurokawa discussed her techniques in the June issue of the monthly Bungei Shunjuu that was aptly entitled “Handling Manuals for Husbands and Wives for Preventing Corona Divorce.” One man noticed that his wife was She starts out by saying “Unfortunately, ‘Corona Di- wearing a new skirt, so he asked The male brain has evolved while vorces’ are sure to increase.” She warns that the risk her “When did you buy that?” But encountering dangers in the wild, of Corona divorce is far more serious than the risk of “when” was a NG words as it is so it has no time to feel sympathetsenior-age divorce. Reports of growing numbers of one of the five Ws. The wife then ic in dangerous situations. Thus divorce cases among couples forced to spend more replied “I bought it because it was its tendency is focus on people’s time together because of Covid-19 have appeared in a bargain” and became upset. What weaknesses without hesitation. This he should have said was “Wow, it’s is called “goal oriented problem North America, as well as Japan and elsewhere. nice” or “That looks cute.” Then solving type.” In contrast, the female Tsuma no Torisetu, which has won over many female his wife would have said “I bought brain as a female mammal is more readers, explains the reasons for wives’ unhappiness it at a bargain sale the day before likely to survive by exchanging and anger from the standpoint of brain science and yesterday. It’s nice right?” and they ideas for child rearing through close offers counter-measures from husbands’ perspectives would have enjoyed that bit of communication with other females. based on the working of the female brain, thus serving conversation. This is how they acquire their ability as a ‘handling manual of wives.” The female brain is said to be good to sympathise. The background to its publication was the state of at retaining emotional memories At any rate, communication beJapanese society that is seeing a rapid rise in cases over a long period. Experiences are tween males and females is not where husbands cite their wives’ “mental cruelty” as sorted and deposited in different easy, even in normal times. All the their reason for seeking divorce. An increasing number “drawers” according to their “emo- more, Dr Kurokawa’s wise counsel of husbands are saying they are “afraid of our wives.” tional colour tones.” should prove very useful for couples By “cruelty,” husbands mean their wives’ words and forced to live in isolation because of actions that are to them completely unreasonable, When certain triggers are pulled, the Corona virus epidemic. such as “they are always irritated,” they “speak harshly,” certain memories and emotions “they become angry all of a sudden,” they “become angry no matter what we do,” “they stop talking,” “they don’t do any housework for us” or “they throw words at us that insult our dignity.” In journalism, and in business too, one of the basics is Congratulations to Yayoi Theatre Movement Society on receiving a the so-called five Ws and one H, that stands for “who, Pan-Asian Recognition Award during the 2020 explorASIAN Virtual when, where, what, why and how.” But according to Dr Awards Ceremony. The Yayoi Theatre Movement Society has taken a Kurokawa, they are “NG words, that husbands should leadership role in promoting cross-cultural exchange between many Asian arts societies and Canadian audiences who are not familiar with not utter to their wives all of a sudden.” A female director at a TV station who lives in a high- Japanese traditional dance and movements. Over the decades, Yayoi rise apartment was cleaning out her home one day. Theatre Movement Society has collaborated with many Canadian dance She put out three big bags of garbage, so she asked companies and artists that exist outside of the traditional Japanese her husband “Will you take these downstairs?” He community, with the goal of creating meaningful cultural exchange took one bag downstairs and came back up, and through the theatre experience.

LIMELIGHT: YAYOI THEATRE MOVEMENT SOCIETY RECEIVES EXPLORASIAN AWARD

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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!

Nikkei national museum & cultural centre

All Nikkei Centre Events at 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC phone: 604.777.7000 info@nikkeiplace.org I www.nikkeiplace.org

Tonari Gumi Facility Limited Re-opening from June 22, 2020 The facility is open for Library use and to provide Community Services by appointment. Please call Tonari Gumi, 604,687,2172 national to make anmuseum appointment. Open Monday to Thursday 10am to 2pm Closed on Canada Day July 1 and BC Day August 3 For VCH guidelines and opening details, please visit www.tonarigumi.ca

Nikkei Nikkei

2020 July – December Membership available $25/person. Please call 604.687.2172 for detail.

cultural centre

First Friday of each month 7:30pm – 10pm First Friday Forum Tonari Gumi, 42 West 8th Avenue Music, diverse genres and cultures. Standards, jazz, pop, classical, folk, world music. Poetry and other readings. Enjoy an evening of music, discussion, friendship. Admission by donation, net proceeds go towards the Aoki Legacy Endowment Fund, UBC. The First Friday Forum will be on hiatus until Tonari Gumi re-opens. We look forward to seeing you all again!

July 16 - 26, 2020 12th annual Queer Arts Festival 12th annual Queer Arts Festival (QAF), Vancouver’s artist-run, professional, multidisciplinary roister of queer arts, culture and history. “Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.” ― Oscar Wilde

Rose Butch | The Darlings

From “zines to screens”, #QAF2020 promises a queerly-digital-visual experience across varied platforms ensuring everyone the opportunity to participate in this year’s Queer Arts Festival. WICKED features streaming art tours, on-line presentations of the performances, installations throughout the city, and a hard copy QAF free zine that encompasses the entire festival with artist and programming notes, behind the scenes commentary and additional art content for the reader. queerartsfestival.com FEATURE PROGRAM A Conversation on Queer Mentorship Saturday, July 25, 12pm PST | Lunch Discourse Hiromi Goto and Erica Isomura explore the nuances of intergenerational mentorship as queer POC writers.

Saturday, August 1, 2pm to 7pm Powell Street Festival Online Telethon Our community – vendors, community groups, artists and festival-goers – comes together to celebrate Japanese Canadian art and culture. Using the hashtag #powellstfest, send your well-wishes and connect with folks you normally see during the festival weekend! This event will raise funds for our Downtown Eastside programming. We are seeking pledges for the Telethon fundraiser now! You can also make donations throughout the duration of the Telethon. If you would like to donate or have questions, please contact june@powellstreetfestival.com.

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TO MEMBERSHIPGVJCCA A GVJ C CNOTICE GVJCCA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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

Vancouver Buddhist Temple 220 Jackson Avenue, Vancouver, BC Telephone: 604-253-7033 www.vancouverbuddhisttemple.com Rev. Tatsuya Aoki, minister

2020 Obon Service, Bon Dance, cemetery services, and August Shotsuki Memorial are cancelled. We are currently suspending our services and activities until further notice. Private and small group Obon or memorial service can be arranged, please contact Rev. Tatsuya Aoki rev.aoki@gmail.com | 604-253-7033 BC Shizuoka Kai Summer Picnic Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic our annual summer picnic in July has been cancelled. We look forward to seeing everyone at the New Year’s Party on January 23, 2021 at the Nikkei Centre. Please stay safe and continue to practice social distancing. For more info, please contact: Dave Kobayashi 604.961.8170 Mike Saito 604.574.7898 Tracey Valente 604.329.3780

ONLINE DISTRIBUTION

We usually distribute The Bulletin via a number of Nikkei businesses and other outlets in addition to membership mail and web distribution. We understand many of you are staying home and doing your part in physical distancing. We heard your concern that essential information from our community will not be accessible due to COVID-19 and our board and editorial team decided to release issues online for everyone. For access to the online issue, please visit our website at jccabulletin-geppo.ca or issuu.com/ bulletin.geppo. We hope to continue sharing information with our community during these uncertain times.

Ongoing NAJC Chats – online programming Visit najc.ca/online-programs for a full listing of programming as it become available, with new programs being added all the time.

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Alice Bradley CommunityKitchen with and Lea Ault

lea@hapaizakaya.com

Barbecue Rub for meats and chicken

Another month of socially distancing, wearing masks, washing our hands every five minutes. Also watching with open mouths the horror unfolding south of the border. I’ve run out of words on that one, and I’m really A basic rub is a nice easy way to season meats for the barbecue. It can be mad that Trump has spoiled red hats for the rest of us. used for beef, pork, chicken or ribs. It adds a piquant flavour to any grilled Mom has written most of this month’s column; she’s meat and can be kept in the cupboard. Other seasonings can be added so excited for barbecue season. Whenever it feels like such as garlic powder, onion powder, oregano, rosemary and cayenne arriving, that is. Has there ever been such a wet June? pepper if you like heat. Sprinkle your favourite mix on the meat, cover Ugh. Anyway, in hope and optimism, here are some and keep in the fridge for a few hours or overnight. Use as little or as summery treats for socially distanced barbecues. much as you like. Try a small amount to start, use more if you like a lot of spice. Finish grilled meat by brushing with your favourite barbecue sauce towards the end of the cooking time so that it does not burn.

Barbecued Beans 5 slices bacon, diced 1 large onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 Tbsp dry mustard 1 tsp dry thyme 3/4 cup ketchup 1/3 cup cider vinegar 1/3 cup molasses 1/2 cup water 1 bay leaf 1 tsp or more Tabasco or other hot sauce, to taste 1 tin ( 540 ml size) kidney beans, rinsed and drained 1 tin ( 540 ml ) black beans, rinsed and drained 1 tin (540 ml) pinto or cannellini beans, rinsed and drained Fry the bacon until crisp, drain and set aside. Remove most of the bacon fat, add 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, then sauté the chopped onion over moderate heat until translucent. Add the garlic and sauté for a minute. Add the beans, mustard, thyme, ketchup, vinegar, molasses, water, bay leaf and Tabasco or hot sauce. Simmer over low heat for about 1 hour; add more water if the mixture becomes too dry. Add the reserved bacon, then simmer for another 5 minutes. Taste for seasoning. This can be prepared the day before and warmed up before serving.

3-4 Tbsp coarse salt 2 Tbsp brown sugar 1 Tbsp ground thyme 1 Tbsp dry mustard 2 Tbsp chili powder 1 Tbsp paprika 1 Tbsp black pepper (optional, add 1 tablespoon of : Garlic powder, onion powder, oregano or rosemary. If you want more heat, add a pinch or more of cayenne pepper) Mix together, keep in a jar for anytime you want a real barbecue flavour.

Southern Barbecue Spice Rub This recipe is good for beef and pork barbecue, has a spicier flavour and is preferred by many. 2 Tbsp salt 3 Tbsp paprika 1 Tbsp cumin 1 Tbsp onion powder 1 Tbsp garlic powder 1-3 tsp cayenne (this gives a lots of heat, modify if you prefer less heat) 2 tsp black pepper 1-2 tsp oregano 2 tsp thyme 3 Tbsp brown sugar Rub a little or a lot onto meat, cover and let marinate a few hours or overnight.

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Orzo Salad with Roasted Vegetables and Feta Cheese

Easiest Strawberry Dessert

This raises eyebrows when I bring it to potluck dinners but it’s such a good combination and fun to eat that Orzo is the rice shaped pasta that is widely available at the supermarket everybody adopts it. You need local strawberries or at but you could use any short pasta like farfalle, ditalini, rotini or even elleast good sweet fruit for this. Wash them well, leave bow macaroni. I think it works best with smaller pasta. This salad can be the stems on, then heap them in a bowl and serve with prepared the day before and tossed together with the dressing an hour brown sugar and sour cream on the side. Everyone or so before serving. It travels well and like all fresh foods in summer, takes some sour cream and some brown sugar. Dip should be kept cold during transport. your fruit into the sour cream and then into the brown ½ pound Orzo pasta sugar, then eat! 1 Japanese eggplant, cut in 1 inch chunks 1-2 zucchini, cut in 1 inch chunks 1 medium red onion, sliced 1 red pepper, in 1 inch cubes (Optional but adds nice colour and flavour if you like peppers) Summer brings fruit, and one good way to use fruit is to 2 large cloves of garlic, finely chopped make a fruity cake. This easy recipe uses rhubarb, but 2-3 Tbsp olive oil I’ve also made it with blueberries and strawberries and 4 green onions, chopped it’s excellent, although I did reduce the sugar because ¾ pound feta cheese, cut in ½ inch cubes or crumbled rhubarb needs more sugar, as it is actually not a fruit but 15 basil leaves, thinly sliced a mouth-puckeringly sour vegetable. Isn’t it a wonder ¼ cup chopped parsley someone thought to add sugar and make it pie? Dressing Oven: 350. Grease and partially line a 9” x 13” pan. 2 Tbsp lemon juice Prepare 3 cups of rhubarb - wash well and dice 2 Tbsp cider vinegar or white wine vinegar 1/3 cup olive oil Streusel 1 tsp honey In food processor, combine 1 tsp salt ½ cup flour ½ tsp black pepper ⅓ c. brown sugar Garnish: 2-3 Tbsp toasted pine nuts, halved cherry tomatoes ⅓ c. butter.

Rhubarb Cake

Boil the orzo in salted water for about 7-8 minutes according to package directions, check for doneness, don’t let it get mushy. Drain well, rinse with cold water and drain, toss with a teaspoon of oil to keep it from clumping. Mix the garlic with the olive oil in a large bowl, add the eggplant, zucchini onion, pepper to coat the vegetables, sprinkle with a little salt and pepper. Bake in a 425 degree F oven for about 40 minutes, mixing once. Cool. Add the roasted vegetables to the pasta, add the chopped green onion, chopped basil leaves, and parsley, mix, cover and store in the fridge. Prepare the dressing by whisking the lemon, juice, vinegar, honey, salt and pepper and olive oil. Mix into the pasta mix, add the feta cheese. Sprinkle with the toasted pine nuts and a few cherry tomatoes just before serving.

Whiz until it’s crumbly and set aside. In a large bowl whisk together dry ingredients: 2 c. flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 ¼ c. sugar (if using sweet fruit reduce sugar to ¾ cup) ½ t salt Whisk together wet ingredients: 2 eggs 1 c. sour cream (I’ve used lower fat sour cream in this and it’s fine) 2 tsp vanilla

I find I often make baked potatoes to go with grilled meats and ribs, and then I have all this leftover sour cream; I’m guessing I’m not the only one. Add the wet into the dry, stir until just combined, then add fruit and fold through. Spread in pan, top with Here are two recipes that use sour cream. streusel. Bake 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick tests cleanly. Note: You can just sprinkle the top with cinnamon sugar instead of streusel; you can also combine nuts into the streusel – I’m thinking cherries with almonds in the streusel. And peaches are coming in August! Plums in September! Can’t wait to try this recipe with all of them, and then there will be apples in the fall...

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VANCOUVER SHINPO JAPANESE WEEKLY CLOSES THE END OF AN ERA by Sleepless Kao Photo: Manto Nakamura

How many years did you continue the magazine? Forty-one years and a few months, it’s a long time. And no breaks, it’s incredible. This discontinuation is connected to the Coronavirus? It was already decided in advance to discontinue the publication. Even though there are many people who want us to continue, I think the generation is not a paper one anymore, and also I’m at the retirement age. Please let me take a rest (laughs). Mrs. Tsuda, you have too much energy to retire (laughs) but it’s sad that we won’t have any Japanese language newspapers in Vancouver.

Yes it’s sad, but it’s the Internet generation. People, especially young people, don’t read papers. Many people our age still prefer paper to the Internet and some said please don’t stop... Back then, there was no place you could ask questions in Japanese, so if you wanted to speak in Japanese, it was the Shinpo. So sometimes people came to the office to ask things (about housing or laws). Later, when Japanese language services like I interviewed Mrs. Saeko Tsuda, president and founder of the Vancouver Tonari Gumi and Nikkei Centre opened, we started to Shinpo Japanese weekly newspaper as it was slated to shut down at the introduce those to people, then we were no longer a end of April. consultant or handyman. I first met Mrs. Tsuda in 1994, when I arrived in Canada. When I advertised It wasn’t a consultation, but I also visited your office a desktop computer called Mackintosh LC in the Vancouver Shimbun to chat about publication of my children’s books or community section (buy and sell), it was Mr. Tsuda, the president, who exhibitions. You were always smiling and listening came to buy the computer! to me (laughs) Did you work in writing before you At that time, Vancouver Shinpo had just completed its own building, and when I visited, many employees were working on Mac computers in a spacious and beautiful office, and I thought that the newspaper company was cool. One of the computers being used was my old computer, which made me a bit proud of (laughs). When I called the office, Mrs. Tsuda was cheerful as always. It’s been a while, this is Kao from The Bulletin/Geppo magazine. Thank you for talking with me today. It might be a light reading like a weekly magazine (laughs).

came to Canada? I was not a writing professional. After the war, there was nothing in Vancouver. The Bulletin/Geppo was there but it was a newspaper for JCCA members and didn’t have general news for everyone. There was no Japanese TV or radio. We wanted to tell what was happening in Japan through the Shinpo.

I collected information from reports on ships that arrived at five ports near Vancouver. They were sent through facsimiles but the ships threw them away. I What are you saying, don’t worry about that (laughs) asked them to give them to me instead of throwing I was nervous to interview the president of a newspaper company, but I them out and then I selected and edited news from it. was able to enjoy the interesting history of Vancouver Shinpo thanks to We began to write in pencil on paper and print in ink, the friendly nature of Mr. Tsuda. using gari ban (mimeograph). According to her, the The Vancouver Shinpo began publishing in 1978. At that time, there were no Japanese-language newspapers in Vancouver, and Japanese-speaking Nikkei in Vancouver had to subscribe to newspapers from Toronto, Seattle and other cities.

Note: mimeograph was a printing method that used a stencil and stylus to print. When printing, it made a noise that sounded like ‘gari gari’, thus, it was called gari ban in Japanese (ban means stencil in Japanese)

It seems that the name of the newspaper became Vancouver Shimpo How did you think to use reports from the ships? after going through Vancouver, Bankaha, and Bankapa. A person at a souvenir shop told me that reports were sent to cargo ships. I heard that on ships they threw them away and I thought, what a waste. Then

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I thought, let’s get information from there! That was No, I didn’t have any purpose at all. At first I thought about going around the beginning. the United States and returning to Japan. I had no intention of doing It’s impressive that you had the energy to start a anything (laughs). It’s neat to say now (laughs). newspaper.

Let’s learn English or learn about the world?

At that time, there were many Japanese shops on Powell Street, which was Vancouver’s Japan Town. I asked to put 500 newspapers for free at Mihamaya, a Japanese merchandise shop, and they disappeared quickly. I didn’t think I would print in paper in the beginning. But when I did, it went out so fast from the shop. At first, we used a mimeograph, and then we got two portable Japanese typewriters from Japan, after that regular Japanese typewriters, then word processors, and finally now we have Mackintosh computers.

Ah, there wasn’t anything at all (laughs). I was thinking about going on a trip and going home. It was so spontaneous. I didn’t think about starting a business. I think you shouldn’t write this kind of story (laughs).

between Japan and Canada.

What will you do next?

It’s very interesting that you left Japan aimlessly and started a newspaper business that has lasted for 41 years! I got divorced, in fact. When the Vancouver Shinpo was started, I had two children and I was working as a sushi chef at a restaurant at night to be able to feed my family, as it wasn’t enough just working for the newspaper.

You had some tough times. One of those computers is from me, so I will be That was the time I was working hard. (laughs) I would try anything. I am added to the Shinpo’s history (laughs). I also have a curious person. I’m “Hachikin” (laughs). a lot to remember. Note: Hachikin is a person who speaks and acts straight, is cheerful, There was a Japanese TV channel, ICAS, and they generous and stubborn but simple-minded and easily flattered. The word and the Shinpo worked together and co-hosted describes women from Kouchi prefecture who are stubborn and active, events like “Shinpo Karaoke Championship”, “Sumo and keep going forward without seeing the past. It describes exactly who Championship in Canada”, “NHK Karaoke contest”, Mrs. Tsuda is! etc. Those events were very successful and brought the community together. The visits by the Emperor of I’m very normal, an ordinary person. I wanted to be in the same position Japan and his Imperial Majesty in 2009 and the 2010 as immigrants. I wanted to help connect people to Nikkei Centre or peoVancouver Olympics are memorable. In the immediate ple to people through the newspaper. In addition, I wanted to tell people aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, things that helped on their daily lives. Basically, we are newspaper for the Vancouver Shinpo organized the Ganbare Nippon ordinary people (laughs). (cheer up Japan) campaign and provided space for Are there any memorable articles or events that you look back on? advertisements, and donated the total of CAD $13,340 I got a call from a man who inquired about posting a wanted person ad. to the Canadian Red Cross. There were numerous He visited here with his then-girlfriend but they split up during the trip, articles about charity concerts in Vancouver in support and only he went back to Japan. A few years later he got married and of the victims. had a family but wondered how she was doing, after being left behind by It was fun to watch the Nikkei Star Talent Search at him. So he wanted us to search. Two days after the ad ran, she contacted Nikkei Matsuri with you. him and told him that she is married in Canada and lives happily with her The Shinpo became a media sponsor at the Nikkei family. He sent us a thank you letter. When something like this happens, I Centre’s events and not only supported the community feel happy that I can help, feel proud to do this job. Anyway, I have been but also contributed to building friendly relationships working on this paper for 41 years and I feel it has taught and raised me. Mrs. Tsuda has been praised for her many achieve- I want to think about it for a while, then I will start the next chapter. I won’t ments and received the Minister of Foreign Affairs do anything big as I am retired (laughs). Award in 2014. Thank you very much for 41 years. I am grateful to have been able Did you come to Canada because you wanted to run to learn the history of the Vancouver Shinpo. Thank you very much! a newspaper company? This article first appeared in Japanese in The Geppo. It was translated into English by Akiko Cheng.

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TONARI GUMI BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2020/2021 The 2020 Annual General Meeting was held via Zoom for the first time, smoothly and successfully, much to the relief of our staff. Thank you to all our 2019 members who participated online and mailed in ballots prior to June 6. Tonari Gumi’s 2020/2021 twelve Elected Board of Directors are Chair, David Iwaasa; Vice-chair, Kyoko Manabe; Treasurer, Larry Okada; Secretary, Michael Beaty; Directors Mamiko Van Horn, Patrick Li, Martin Kobayakawa, Kanako Motohashi, Tamako Copithorne, Manabu Ogawa, Makoto Inuzuka, and Lisa Hirose-Cameron. Volunteers busy at work making much-appreciated masks Our dedicated senior volunteers who are creating oneof-a-kind cloth masks are busy with the overwhelming response. Our senior volunteers have created over 300 masks so far and have received numerous messages of appreciation and support from those who have received them. Our sincerest gratitude to all the volunteers involved and those who have donated during May, June and, by popular demand, until July 17.

The Japanese Community Volunteers Association, “Tonari Gumi” gratefully acknowledges and thanks the following people for their generous donations received from May 18 to June 18, 2020. Although we try our best, we may miss your name. Please contact us and we will make correction in the next issue. Monetary Donations Sumiko Nishihama, Sharon Seki, Suki Wada, Yasuo Takizawa, Masako Nakazawa, Noriko Plimley, Minoru Asaoka, Yoshiko Uwasa, Masayoshi Mineta, Shuko Kuno, Les Fugeta, Tom Kusumoto, Shoko Shimizu, Harumi Kimura, Geraldine Fujisawa, Tsutae Suzuki, Tazuko Mochizuki, Toshie Aoki, Keiko Watanabe, Fumiko Woloshyn, Tomiko Noda, Rick Shiomi, Masako Ezawa, Judy Hamanishi, Sachiko Okazaki, Yoko Toki, Masako St. Jame, Miwako Minato Monetary Donations Programs Machiko Nakahori Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) Yasuyo Bosshardt, Michael Vlasman, H. Ueda, Randy Enomoto,Kai Mark Wing, Lorie Naylor, Akiko Ikeuchi, Don Nishio, Tamami Li, Hiroko Greenholtz, Wendy Gao, Joyce Takeshita, Tokiko Kadonaga, Chiho Myojin, Haruji Mizuta, Naomi Kameya, Sumiko Watanabe, Kimiko Higashi, Yuko Shibata, Akira Takeda, Sau Ian Yan, Mayumi Spry, Iso Yamamoto, Koichiro Yagi, Kyoko Manabe Notary Public Corporation, Peter & Shelly Kutney, Miki Hira, Ramses Miki-Hansen, Miwako Tateishi, Tamotsu Nagata, Karen Okada, Pauline Cooper, Cynthia Ishikawa, Stan Yip, Mieko Ujiie, Yoshiharu Maeda, Anonymous (8) Monetary Donations (Canada Helps - MIAHF) Canada Helps COVID-19 Community Care Fund In memory of the late Gordon Kadota Machiko Nakahori In memory of the late George Otokazu Matsui (Canada Helps) Nancy Henderson In memory of the late Yoshiko Uyeyama (Canada Helps) Peter Uyeyama In memory of the late Motoi Iwanaka (Canada Helps) Don Iwanaka

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A TALK WITH MICHIKO HIGGINS

by Makiko Suzuki MS: Where in Japan did you grow up? I was born in Sendai in 1943 in the heat of the WW2, but the city was bombarded with air raids. So dad moved us to his ancestral village of Tajiri 田尻 in Mayagi. I spent my childhood years there until the time to go to junior high in Sendai. MS: Do you remember what kind of vegetables your mother grew? Did you help her or was it just her ‘job’? I assumed my parent’s marriage was not a happy one and she spent all the waking hours there. I think it was her therapy. She grew everything you can think of: napa, daikon, cabbage, kabocha, cucumber, eggplant, corn, edamame, sweep pea, carrots, onion, green onion, shungiku, celery, sweet potato, mitsuba, asparagus, shiso, gobo, spinach and most of what you can think of. She also grew fruits – grapes, watermelon, honeydew, strawberry, fig, peach, persimmon, pear, etc. and flowers – hibiscus, cosmos, roses, azalia, magnolia, zinnia, etc. So many of them.

Tonari Gumi Garden Club normally focuses upon the Red Shiso Project during May and June. Covid 19 and cancellation of the Powell Street Festival has deferred the project. The focus of the garden club now is to observing and notating the growth of selected Japanese vegetables seeded at several ‘test gardens’. Recently, Michiko Higgins emailed asking if green shiso seeds or seedlings were available, as seeds had become scarce. At the time, both 2018 and 2019 seeds were being tested for viability (green shiso can be a germination nightmare). To encourage germination the seeds were frozen for a few days and then soaked overnight before being planted in sterile soil inside a tray placed on a heated seedling mat and under LED grow lights. A week later (May 14) our 2020 shiso seed order finally arrived. They also were sewn indoors and placed under LED lights. By May 20, the 2019 and 2020 seeds had germinated and new plants were emerging through the soil. The 2018 seeds failed to germinate. The shiso plants left outside last fall in pots ‘went to seed’ and produced a few seedlings. As a result, next spring the potted shiso plants will be brought inside to encourage ‘volunteers’. Being curious about Michiko’s growing experience, along with an offer of complementary shiso plants I asked a few questions. Michiko generously replied. A magical story of ‘old Japan’ emerged.

I did not help her much in the garden as a child, but I spent tons of time in the garden with my sister. We didn’t have an outdoor outlet for water for the garden at that time, and I remember fetching water for her from the community well with, you know these balancing pole on shoulders you see in Chinese paintings with two buckets hanging from both ends. I did that. Imagine the amount of water she needed for the ½ acre garden! These photos are from the iMovie I am creating. MS: Did your mother enjoy gardening? I think she did. I believe she found peace there. It was not her job. Dad provided for us extremely well. So she never did “work” outside her home. Dad also owned a mountainside property. So we used to go bamboo shoot harvesting every year. When I had a house in East Van with a decent size backyard, I used to grow mostly flowers. That was my thing. I used to grow allium, Easter lily, clematis, iris, hydrangea, impatience, morning glory called “Heavenly Blue”, Japanese anemone etc. Then my grandchildren came along and I started travelling to help out my daughter work (in film) and travelled tons for the past 13 years! I just came back from London in March a month earlier than expected due to the pandemic. Anyway, I stay put now – I didn’t want to travel anymore because it disrupts my other interests so much – and hoping to become a happy gardener though my patio is tiny. I am in the process of acquiring a garden plot. Don’t know how long it is going to take to actually get one.” MK: I see you have a full patio – it must face south – lucky you! I see tomatoes and some herbs, what else do you grow? In addition to shiso are you growing other Japanese vegetables? My patio faces west and gets sun only from 3:00 to sunset. Probably not enough, but will have to do. Two cukes were given to me, but I bought continued on page 30

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Higgins continued one more to get better chances of pollinating. Other vegetables: tomatoes, zucchini, Greek oregano, jasmine and that’s about it. Not much, but they are already occupying lots of my time! I also have indoor plants. MK: My dad grew lovely cucumber in our backyard in Toronto. It was impossible at that time to get Japanese cucumbers then, only boring field cucumbers. Japanese cucumbers are productive, crunchy and tasty. The members of our church were grateful for the armful of surplus cucumbers he would share with all. I wasn’t interested at all in gardening and never learned anything plant-wise! When Dad moved into his condo he kept on growing plants. I regret not talking to him about growing those cucumbers. I wasn’t interested in gardening either. I witnessed mom working hard at it but I didn’t want it for myself. If things become ‘work’ I do not continue. That’s my philosophy in life. So everything I do, I do with much passion and joy. iMovie is one and gardening is the other. Spending time with family and grandchildren is the priority. I don’t have much, but I feel like I’ve won a million. I appreciate your generosity and look forward to the pick up soon. Strangely in the time of COVID, when people are forced to slow down memories, thoughts and ideas emerge. How many of us have considered organizing our photo albums, or writing about our childhood memories or making an iMovie? Something to think about. Meanwhile, here in the West we have been experiencing January-like weather. Heat will arrive soon and our warm weather vegetables will leap to life. Thanks again to Michiko Higgins for sharing her story, photos and illustrations.

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Tonari Gumi continued Gardens Golf Club on Sunday August 23. This year we celebrate the 55th year of the Japanese Canadian Community Golf Tournament. The fun event is guaranteed to be enjoyed by both serious and recreational golfers and all required health and safety guidelines will be followed to ensure a safe and healthy event as well. The proceeds from the event will help to support isolated seniors and maintain our facility. The sponsorship and registration details are available Tonari Gumi – JCCA Charity Golf Classic on August 23 on the Tonari Gumi website at www.tonarigumi.ca/ The annual fundraising event will take place at the beautiful Meadow events/tg-golf. services and facility use. The Staff has increased cleaning frequency using hospital grade supplies with scheduled professional cleaners. All visitors are kindly required to make an appointment prior to visiting the facility. There are no Drop-ins at this time. The VCH Guidelines in English and Japanese are available on the Tonari Gumi website. The prevention and protection of our senior members is our number one priority at this time. We appreciate your patience and understanding. Please see Tonari Gumi website “TG RE-OPEN” for detail.

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9609: MEETING MY OJII-SAN (GRANDDAD) by Laura Saimoto When I first opened my grandfather’s case file (about 500 pages) from the Office of the Custodian, there was a handwritten number: 9609. What did this mean? It dawned on me that 9609 was my grandfather’s Internee number, assigned by the Office of the Custodian, the government authority that organized and implemented the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians from 1942 – 49. Out of the 15,000 case files on every single Japanese Canadian adult who was interned, grandfather Kunimatsu Saimoto was 9609. I had heard stories about my grandfather, but had never met him. Both he and my grandmother died before I was born. I had seen family photos of his four seiner boats, of the family, of his house and car in Steveston before the war. Like every granddaughter, I wanted to know more about who my grandfather was. Then I thought, what could these government documents tell me? As I read every page, tears began streaming down my face. Like any government authority that aims to systematically erase a people while telling themselves they were doing nothing wrong, they took meticulous, detailed records to an astonishing degree. The Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians was a machine of organization and administration, and everything was documented. As I continued to read, I started to read into the mountains of legal, financial and administrative details – the measurements of his boats, the age of the new diesel engine he had bought just prior to the war, how many lots the family house in Steveston sat on; the number of bedrooms, etc. Gradually, as I connected the dots, a clear picture started to emerge about who my grandfather was as a person. What I knew from my family was that Kunimatsu was born in 1890 in a tiny poor fishing village in Wakayama prefecture. His older brother, who was a torpedo gunner in the Japanese navy, advised him to immigrate to Canada at age 16 in 1907 to avoid conscription and to build a fortune in the land of opportunity. With a grade 6 education and not knowing a word of English, he settled in Steveston and became a fish buyer, owning

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four seiner boats, and having 200 fishermen under contract working for him. As a fish buyer, he bought and consolidated individual fishermen catch to sell by volume contract to the canneries. He married my grandmother and had ten children. They lived in a detached house in Steveston and he drove a new 1939 Dodge. He sponsored many friends from his hometown to immigrate to Canada. He had guts, he was business savvy, he was honourable, and he was a family man. As I continued to read, what emerged was that Kunimatsu was an activist. Not in the modern sense, holding up placards chanting anti-this or “Occupy Powell Street”. He did not riot in the streets, loot stores, nor burn down police stations, although I’m sure he felt the same kind of anger at the injustices being perpetrated. As a new Canadian, he thoroughly learned and adapted to Canadian power structures and institutional systems rooted in democracy. He was street smart, stood up for what he believed in, and had a strong and embodied sense of his own value and the value of what he had built. For him, this was manifested in the incredible detail and deep knowledge he had on how the Canadian ‘system’ worked. He used the system to peacefully stand up for himself, for what he believed was fair, for what he believed was just. Bottom-line, he did not become a victim to injustice. By using the system within the system, he valiantly challenged it. Kunimatsu took meticulous business records of his assets. He knew the power of information and its documentation, not just costs and revenues, but insurance for replacement costs, valuations, appraisals, landlord tenant arrangements with notarized lease agreements, depreciation etc.. He understood what Canadian business, financial and legal structures were built on. He understood what citizenship was built upon. In 1948, he and other Japanese Canadians sued the Canadian Government in what was called the Bird Commission. These are extraordinary records of Japanese Canadian activism, of my grandfather’s activism. They did not directly challenge the government for the confiscation of their properties and forced sale of their assets in and of itself. The claimants challenged the devaluation of their assets and the low compensation received for them. For my grandfather, this was their house in Steveston, his four boats, his car and his biggest asset, his largest boat, the May S. A 60’ long seiner, the May S was confiscated by the Canadian navy on Feb. 15, 1942. The navy used it to round up smaller Japanese Canadian fishing boats for the “Japanese Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee” The construction cost (see attached document) tallied up to a total of $16,825.80. The replacement value according to his insurance was $18,000. The insured value was $11,000. Present value, according to the Canadian navy that took it over was $10,500. The government appraised value in 1942 was $8,750. He received compensation of $8,057.50.

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Milestones BANNO, Robert Tadashi March 9, 1943 – June 16, 2020. It is with great sadness that we remember Robert Banno. He left us unexpectedly and left for his family, friends, colleagues and community, memories and legacies that were created through a happy, meaningful and full life. He is remembered for his upbeat, principled, honest, kind and fair nature to all the people he interacted with. Robert was born in Tashme, BC at a tumultuous time for people of Japanese ancestry. From those internment towns to Kamloops and Vancouver, he lived his life with dedication to those around him and he was a visionary in his legal work and community work. Robert was predeceased by his parents Edward and Mata Banno, and he is survived by and missed by his wife, Cathy Makihara, his son Kevin (Christine and granddaughter, Eva, Kevin’s mother Aline (Ian)) and his brother Victor (Debbie, Brian, Katherine) and Dale, and the nephews he looked after Emil and Matthew. He will be remembered for his gentle soul that influenced us all to be better. Robert was of unfailing good humour, and he leaves behind many close and lifelong friends, colleagues across Canada and the globe, and a Japanese Canadian community he served for over 35 years. Thank you to DLA Piper Canada for his 50 year career. A tribute page honouring Robert’s community work is at Nikkei Place Foundation www.nikkeiplacefoundation.org/ Robert was a friend to all. With the present situation of COVID-19 restrictions, he will have a private family celebration, will be interred in the future at Mountain View Cemetery, and there will be a video to share with his many friends. We thank everyone who shared with us their sorrows and messages of condolences, flowers and tributes – it is of tremendous help. YOSHIOKA, Hideko Hideko Yoshioka passed away in her sleep at Langley Lodge on June 14. Hideko was born in Miyajima, Japan on February 12, 1920. She married Jack Asao Yoshioka in 1940. Together they raised three sons, Sam (Pat) grandsons Jason, Chris (May) and Tyler (Hong), son Stan (Lucy) grandsons Michael (Miriam), Richard (Susan) and son Kenny (deceased). She was predeceased by her husband, Jack, in 1999. Hideko leaves behind six great grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews. Many thanks to the staff and friends at Nikkei Home where she spent 15 years until she moved to Langley Lodge in 2018. A special thank you to the caregivers at Langley Lodge where she resided for the last year and a half and celebrated her 100th birthday on February 12, 2020. A private funeral service was held at Valley View Funeral Home on June 24. A memorial will be held later with extended family and friends. No koden or flowers please. Donations may be made to the Fraser Valley Buddhist Temple or Nikkei Home if desired. NOMURA, Isamu Sam July 13, 1927 – June 12, 2020. Our father and grandfather, Sam, passed away @ the Scarborough General Hospital on June 12, 2020, following his major hip surgery with a massive heart attack. He was born to Sosuke and Koto Nomura as the 3rd son on July 13, 1927, in Vancouver, B. C. His 2 older brothers were Ronnie and Tom. The family repatriated to Shiga-ken, Japan, in 1935. Until he died Sam was the only survivor of this Nomura family. After the Pacific war, as a kika-nisei, he was allowed to return to Canada.

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In 1951, he joined another family from Hikone, Japan, to board an American President Line ship to sail for San Francisco and by train to Toronto. Then, living with the Watanabe family with two daughters whom he befriended, he enrolled at the Radio College of Canada, where he took up television repair trade. He apprenticed in this trade for a few years before he started his own business. In 1955, he married the older daughter, Fumie, at the Downsview United Church, Toronto. From this union were born Michael, Richard and Cathy. He is now survived by Michael (Terry), and their sons, Michael Jr. and David, second son, Richard, and his daughter, Cathy (Mark) Davies and their two boys, Mathew and Ryan. A graveside Service was held on June 17 at Churchill Rd. Cemetery in Brampton, Ontario, with the Rev. Edward Yoshida as the officiant. YAMAMOTO, Harold May 29, 1935 to June 11, 2020. Harold passed away peacefully at Trillium Hospice in Parksville, BC on June 11, 2020. Harold was born on May 29, 1935 in Mt. Lehman BC. The youngest of four children. He is survived by his daughter Gayle Yamamoto of New Westminster, BC.

Harold was an avid golfer and curler. He was a member of The Fraternal Order of the Elks Parksville-Qualicum No.589 Harold worked for the government of BC until his retirement. A Private service was held on Monday June 29, 2020 at Yates Memorial Service. For those wishing to attend virtually we will have Facebook live on the Parksville Yates Memorial Facebook Page.

TANAKA, Shizuo (Jerry) December 27, 1927 - June 9, 2020. It is with heavy heart that we announce the passing of Shizuo Jerry Tanaka on June 9, 2020 after a short battle with advanced gastric cancer. Shizuo was born on December 27, 1927 in Steveston, BC. He is survived by his loving wife of 62 years, Akemi Jean Tanaka (nee Yamamoto). Children Patricia Kazuyo Keizer, Stephen Yuji and Sandra Akiko and grandchildren Bryan Masaru (Natasha), Graeme Hiroshi (Lauren), Spencer Minoru, sister in law Kazumi Tanaka and many extended family members. He was predeceased by his brothers Kaoru and Roy (Alice). Many thanks to the compassionate medical staff at George Pearson Hospital, Ward One. A cremation service presided by Bishop Tatsuya Aoki was held on Saturday June 20, 2020. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, a celebration of life will be held sometime in the future. In lieu of flowers and koden, donations can be made to the Vancouver Buddhist Temple in Shizuo’s memory. SHOJI, Shirley Kiyomi (nee Kawagoye) February 23, 1937 - June 20, 2020. It is with much sadness that we announce the passing of our loving mother, Shirley Shoji. She was predeceased by her parents Roy and Frances Kawagoye, husband Edward Shoji and brother and sister-in-law Yosh and Terry Shoji. Survived by her children Sharlene (Brent) Baxter, Stuart, Bryan (Brenda) and Geoffrey (Lisa); grandchildren Liam, Matthew, Megan, Rachel, Nicholas, Taylor and Lauren; siblings Judi, Linda (Bob), Evelyn (Mike), Richard; brother and sister-in-laws Vic , Kuts (Carol), Elmer (Ginger), Shelagh (Terry) and many adored nieces and nephews. Mom was born in Vancouver, interned in New Denver and raised her family in North Burnaby. She was a natural athlete and excelled at every sport she tried. Mom enjoyed travelling and golfing around the world with dad. Singing karaoke with the Enkatainers brought her such joy. She was a talented artist, knitter, cook, singer Japanese dancer, bowler, golfer and although she was the “best” at everything she did, she remained humble, modest and selfless. Mom preferred to shine the light on others and nothing made her happier than celebrating the success of others. Her grandchildren were the light of her life. The mutual love and respect they had for each other was a joy to watch. She had a special way of bringing everyone together and our extended family will always remember her fabulous meals, generosity, love of games and the laughter that filled every room she was in. The family would like to thank the staff at St Michaels Care Home and Burnaby General Hospital for the wonderful care they provided. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. If so desired, contributions in memory of Shirley may be made to the Alzheimer Society. Condolences may be offered to the family at www.bellburnaby.com

welcoming personality brought her to the service industry. Few will forget her smile and her natural and warm demeanour which was so appreciated by patrons of The Salmon House in West Vancouver where Nora worked for years. Karl Heinz Stittgen, the renowned jeweller, was drawn to her artistic talent. Her innate understanding of colour and texture in all areas of design was also expressed in her own signature, fashion style. After they married they designed and built their architecturally noted home on Pender Island. This home proved to be a centre for endless entertaining and salons; hosting international guests from different walks of life, all of whom deeply appreciated and fondly remembered the experience. World travel with Karl and close friends was extensive and took Nora to South Africa, Europe and Japan, all feeding her creative endeavours. Nora’s cooking and entertaining skills were equalled by few. Her never-ending generosity of spirit was well known and she was much loved by friends and clients. Visitors were thankful to be on the receiving list for Nora’s famous jams and other items from her prolific garden but, mostly, you simply wanted to be in her company. Nora was a thoughtful listener, a supportive, positive and loving friend who possessed a quiet strength and a solid understanding of people and life. Nora’s greatest legacy is that of kindness, gentleness, compassion and beauty which will remain with all those touched by Nora’s loving soul. She was devoted to her beloved dogs and to the end, Kasper, who brought her much joy. Special thanks are due to the Pender Island Medical Centre for outstanding daily assistance. So many loving friends have lent a helping hand to Nora and Karl throughout Nora’s illness. To them we wish to say how immensely grateful we are. Nora’s passing leaves an irreplaceable void in our lives Karl Heinz Stittgen Irene, Howard and Brian Kagawa Robert Nishino

In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Nora’s memory to the B.C. Cancer Clinic, Victoria or to a charity SASAKI STITTGEN, Nora Noriko 1942 -2020. Nora passed away of your choice. A Celebration of Life to be announced peacefully, after a long illness, on June 5, 2020 on Pender Island, with at a later date. her loving husband, Karl Heinz Stittgen at her side. “Come sit with me, when I close my eyes Nora was born in Vancouver on July 27, 1942 to Yuji and Sakayo Sasaki And tell me about love and eternal sunshine” while her family was interned in Hastings Park. Her entire family was moved Karl Stittgen during internment to Kaslo and then to New Denver, in British Columbia’s interior, where her profound connection with nature was nurtured during NISHI, Kazumi June 13, 1926 - June 10, 2020. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing those early war-shadowed years. of Kazumi Nishi. He is survived by his wife Chizuko Predeceased by her sister Katherine Nishino and brother Stanley, Nora is of 63 years and daughter Ruby. Predeceased by his survived by her devoted sister Irene Kagawa and her husband Howard, parents Kichijiro and Tsuta Nishi, brother Isamu Nishi brother-in-law Robert Nishino and her close nephew Brian Kagawa along and sisters Taneko Tanimoto, Masayo Hamanishi and with many other nieces and nephews. Kimiko Kariya. Survived by brothers Denis (Pat), Greg Internment moved Nora’s family again to Tashme near Hope and upon (Mary) and John (Nancy), sisters Hanako Oye, Miyoko release they moved to Toronto where she eventually graduated from Yamanaka, and many nieces and nephews. He was a the Ontario College of Art. Returning to Vancouver, Nora’s warm and continued on page 39

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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE by Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi Dear friends, We miss you and hope this note finds you regaining some normalcy to your routines and that you and your loved ones are healthy and connected. We were pleased to present a trio of webinars in May and June in response to the constraints of the pandemic. All three can be viewed on our website at www.torontonajc.ca/photosvideo-2 The most recent, Burning Province, was an emotional experience, a multi-generational safe space where in the midst of the urgent crises of Black Lives Matter our community came together to experience works of art by Julie Tamiko Manning, Matt Miwa and Michael Prior which transmute the pain of our particular experience into the artistic gold of universality. The Bystander Intervention Training was notable for its insight into the psychology of the targeted person. While some methods suggest creating a ruse for dialogue as a distraction such as “I think I saw you at the library the other day?” this is not recommended as the targeted individual is under stress and a comment like this could create more confusion. Rather, first asking permission to engage and then beginning a conversation by asking if the individual has seen a certain movie is more grounding as a method of ignoring the perpetrator. At our June Board meeting we discussed anti-black racism by asking ourselves what influenced our attitudes. It was apparent that the values we were exposed to were quite varied and topics raised included other forms of discrimination such as homophobia and anti-Semitism. We plan to host online events to begin community discussion and are considering as a first step to learn about and assess “unconscious bias”. Stay tuned. The Toronto NAJC has been invited to sit on a committee to advise on Toronto For All, a City of Toronto Anti-Asian Racism Campaign to launch later this summer. Ken Adachi, in The Enemy That Never Was, sets out the challenges Japanese Canadians faced in resettling east of the Rockies in the chapter titled “The New Frontier”, page 287 where he refers to a 1942 City of Toronto resolution banning Japanese Canadians from the city as well as preventing them from holding business licenses. A meeting with Mayor

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John Tory’s office, City of Toronto, to discuss an acknowledgement or apology for this historical wrong will take place on July 14. Please contact torontonajc@gmail.com for more information. Please check our website or Facebook page for regular events updates and watch for details of the September launch of the digital version of Japanese Canadian Redress: The Toronto Story. Smiles, hugs and love!

Bystander Intervention Training Delivered cross culturally and trans-continentally by Les Takahashi In recent months the COVID 19 pandemic has caused a rise in anti-Asian racism and specifically, public acts of harassment. In response, the Toronto NAJC hosted a webinar on Thursday, June 4 at 7:30pm on Bystander Intervention Training given by Courtney Mangus of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). This program normally given through in-person workshops was delivered by ZOOM making possible a cross-continental workshop with participants from across Canada and elsewhere. The webinar attracted over 700 registrants, attendees, and requests for a copy of the 90-minute webinar which covered principles bystanders could follow in support of persons on the receiving end of verbal harassment. Key points in lending support to a person targeted by a harasser were to focus on the targeted person by approaching them; asking whether your presence was welcomed; speaking to that targeted person, not the harasser, in a calm supportive manner; talking to draw the focus away from the harassment; and if desired by the targeted person accompanying them away from the situation if it was on a bus or some other public setting. Meanwhile the supporting person would ignore the harasser to reduce the impact of the harassment. There was cautioning advice that any support should not include verbal or physical engagement with the harasser, but some attention should be paid to whether the situation had potential to develop into a physical confrontation. If this were the case, the supporting person is not expected to engage physically which might escalate the severity of the harassment and endanger all concerned. From what Ms. Mangus was saying, it seemed that ignoring the harasser would, in most cases, diffuse the situation and give support to the targeted person. Later, in talking to others about the bystander training, I recognized that some of the same ideas are used in defusing a bullying situation and supporting a person who is being bullied. In that moment, a person targeted by a harasser is seen to lack equal status to the harasser. A bystander who lends gentle support is providing that targeted person

power to withstand and ignore the verbal assault in the way one might ignore a pesky fly. Of course, this is not a full description of the webinar. Some details have been missed and hopefully the information here does not misrepresent the presentation. Hopefully, this provides enough information to give a general picture. The CAIR bystander training is normally given to small groups who can engage in role playing to practice the processes. Despite the restrictions of the online event, the webinar taught us the basic tools to help others. It is a good demonstration of the resistance against racism shared by a variety of communities.

BLACK LIVES MATTER The Toronto NAJC affirms our support for demonstrators and hope for their safety. We denounce the violence perpetrated by those in positions of power, and long for their hearts to be moved for those harmed. We lament our own complacency and complicity; for staying silent in times when we should have done more, and ask forgiveness from those whom we have neglected and harmed.

Michael Prior

Kerri Sakamoto is a well-known Toronto writer whose most recent novel Floating City won the 2018 Japan-Canada Award for Literature and follows on the success of One Hundred Million Hearts and The We commit to speaking out against all forms of racism, anti-black violence, Electrical Field. Of Julie, Matt and Michael she said, “My and changing our own structures, our own anti-Black racism, and ways time spent with the book (Burning Province) has been such an embodied experience. I felt a familiar ache of being with one another. and anxiety in the heart but also a sense of bittersweet We reject the racist status quo and commit to speaking against injustice communion and commonality. I felt the same intense because justice is what love looks like in public. tangle of emotions when I saw The Tashme Project. We call for increased funding to under-served communities and the re- There was the pain and pleasure of recognition and structuring and re-imagining of law enforcement. familiarity. The authenticity and the painstaking fidelity (with thanks to Kim Uyede-Kai and the Shining Waters Regional Council, to the nisei spirit and sensibility was so artistically rendered.” The United Church of Canada) We speak from our own experiences of anti-Japanese racism in Canada from the day our people arrived as settlers and that we still experience today as Asian Canadians.

BURNING PROVINCE Poems, Poetry and Prose during a time of a pandemic and protests Where are my people? Past the cannery sloughing into oceans and the maples reddening shallows under the overpass, you say, Its all water under the bridge. So, I wonder which bridge. – from the poem Richmond, by Michael Prior On Tuesday, June 23rd, the Toronto NAJC hosted a webinar featuring poet Michael Prior and the actor/playwright team of Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa, who read from their recent works and then took part in a discussion moderated by Toronto author Kerri Sakamoto. We were pleased to know that in bringing this talented trio together we were introducing Julie and Matt to Michael and vice versa, for the first time. The discussions that ensued in planning the event, and the success of the evening lead us to believe that friendship and potential creative partnerships can be expected.

Michael read from his latest book of poetry, Burning Province, and Julie and Matt performed readings-incharacter by from their play The Tashme Project. The powerful words of Michael’s poetry reflect his discovery of Japanese Canadian displacement from his Japanese grandmother of whom he said, “I was very close to her. She was like a mother to me, and while I was writing this book she passed away, so this is an elegy for her.” “Once I watched her feed sugar to a honeybee with a spoon. Silver coins she couldn’t afford slipped from her hand to mine.” (from the poem “My Pronunciation Was Wrong”) Julie and Matt performed excerpts from The Tashme Project which was based on their personal interviews with nisei who had been interned. Their portrayals had the cadence and accent of nisei characters and captured the anguish, hardship, trauma, and conflicting emotions of those caught in the turbulence of forced evacuation, exile and imprisonment. Their selections included a scene where a memory surfaces of being singled out, along with another student, as Japs by a high school history teacher at Central Tech. “How can you forget, even if it’s 60 years, how can you forget!”

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After the readings Kerri led an insightful and wideranging discussion in which each disclosed how the process of creation has deepened their understanding of their heritage and strengthened their feeling of “connectedness” to the community and how the personal, in these times of crisis is intimately connected to the political. The 75 attendees enjoyed pre and post event slides of community landmarks and a few familiar and contemporary Japanese songs which enhanced the experience of community. Hearing the voices of younger generation who understand that they stand on the shoulders of their elders and are using their considerable talent to embody love and respect for parents, grandparents and the Japanese Canadian community, was a powerful experience that moved many in attendance to tears. Michael Prior is a yonsei, a BC native, a graduate of University of Toronto and Cornell University and now, an assistant professor at Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota. His poetry has earned many awards and appear in numerous publications. His first book of poetry, Model Disciplines, was recognized by the CBC as one of the best of the year. Burning Province, his second book of poetry, was released this spring. “My time spent with the book has been such an embodied experience. I felt a familiar ache and anxiety in the heart but also a sense of bittersweet communion and commonality. I felt the same intense tangle of emotions when I saw The Tashme Project. There was the pain and pleasure of recognition and familiarity. The authenticity and the painstaking fidelity to the nisei spirit and sensibility was so artistically rendered.” In addition to writing, Kerri Sakamoto has a strong interest in visual arts and has published articles and essays on visual artists. She is a sansei, residing in Toronto and has been a visiting scholar at University of Toronto and juror for the Toronto Film Festival.

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Matt Miwa

J u l i e Ta m i k o M a n n i n g h a s played numerous roles in plays ranging from the contemporary to Shakespeare. She is an awardwinning actor and playwright. Her first play, Mixie and the Halfbreeds, a play about mixed identity in multiple universes, was co-written with Adrienne Wong and is on the list 49 Plays by Women of Colour. Her second play, The Tashme Project: The Living Archives, co-created with Matt Miwa, is a verbatim performance about the Japanese Canadian internment camps told through the childhood memories of community elders. (www.thetashmeproject.com)

Matt Miwa is a bilingual theatre, performance and video artist based in Ottawa. He works to build bridges and collaboration between cultural communities. He is the author of an article called “Revitalizing Japanese Canadian Identity” where he says, “Internment was a defining collective experience, yet the ways in which we do or do not remember it remain at odds between generations”. Despite the gap, there is love. Re a d M a t t ’s e s s a y a t w w w. intermissionmagazine.ca/author/ matt-miwa

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longtime fisherman in the Skeena and Queen Charlotte area. The family wishes to extend special thanks to Richmond Hospital doctors, nurses and staff as well as Dr. Chin. There was a private Memorial service to at the Steveston Buddhist Temple. Flowers and Koden gratefully declined. Donations may be made to Steveston Buddhist Temple. HIGASHITANI, Kachiko May 1, 1932 - June 5, 2020. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mother, Kachiko Higashitani. Kachiko passed away peacefully on June 5, 2020 in the hospital with her sons by her side. She was born in Sunbury (Delta), BC on May 1, 1932. She married Isamu Higashitani in 1965 in Vancouver, BC. She is survived by her siblings, Tak, Toshiko, Dick (Sheryl), and Shirley (Gerry); her children, Lillian (Thomas), Sandy (Marichelle), and Danny; her grandchildren, Ashley, Connor, and Justin; and nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her father Fumio, her mother Tomio, her husband Isamu, and her brother Hisashi. Kachiko will be lovingly remembered for her kindness and generosity. She enjoyed cooking for family and friends, gardening, and knitting. We are thankful to the kind and compassionate caregivers at the Nikkei Home where Mom spent her last year. A memorial service will be held at the Glenhaven Memorial Chapel, 1835 East Hastings Street in Vancouver, BC on Saturday, June 27, 2020 followed by a reception. Flowers and koden are gratefully declined. If you wish, donations can be made to the Arthritis Society, the Nikkei Place Foundation or to a charity of your choice in Kachiko’s memory. SAWADA, Koichi William (Bill) June 22, 1935 - June 13, 2020. Koichi “Bill” Sawada of Abbottsford B.C. passed away on June 13, 2020 in Abbottsford hospital. He was 84 years old. Bill was born in Ruskin B.C. on June 22, 1935. In the spring of 1941 Bill and his family moved to Picture Butte Alberta. Later moving to Cranford and then Coaldale Alberta. Bill married Irene Anne Kalynchuk of Vancouver B.C. on October 29, 1964. Bill is survived by his sons Matthew of Abbottsford and Gregory and wife Tammy and grandson Chuk of New Westminster B.C., brother Harry of Calgary and sister Terry of Edmonton. Bill was predeceased by his wife Irene, parents Toshiaki and Tamaye, sister Betty and brother Gary. At Bills request there will be no memorial held. HAMANISHI, Yoshio (Bo-San) Born in Nanaimo, B.C. and passed away in Richmond, B.C. on June 21, 2020. Survived by spouse Etsuko (Betty), 2 sons Brad (Rose) and Daryl. Predeceased by sisters Kazue Tateyama, Fumiko Yoshida, Umeko Kozai and Nobuko Morimoto. Survived by many nieces, nephews and relatives. Private Service was officiated by Rev. Grant Ikuta. Many thanks to the staff at Rosewood Manor for their loving care. Koden and flowers gratefully declined.

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Place comprises Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society and Nikkei Place Foundation.

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

WELCOME BACK! Nikkei Centre re-opened to the public on June 2, in time for our book sale to start on June 3. We are always working to enhance our health and safety measures to match them to federal, provincial, and municipal guidelines around preventing the spread of COVID-19. Please reschedule your visit if you are sick, and consider “visiting” us online instead of in-person. Many staff are still working remotely, so make an appointment if there is someone you want to see. When at Nikkei Centre, follow posted signage to keep your distance from others not in your household, wash your hands, and consider wearing a face mask. For more information about what to expect at the centre, and to check out our online offerings, visit our website at centre.nikkeiplace.org. The following programs are back at Nikkei Centre Line dance Chibi Taiko Iaido Badminton (all groups) Satsuki-kai Japanese dance Igo Club Nikkei Karate Vancouver Shomonkai Aikido Other programs not listed are working on additional health and safety guidelines, and/or waiting until fall or later to resume. For more information on our programs, visit centre.nikkeiplace.org NNMCC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Saturday, July 18, 2020, 11am Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre members are invited to attend our Annual General Meeting. Details regarding access and changes due to COVID-19 will be announced to members, and on our website. If you’re a member, you have a vote! To sign up for NNMCC membership, or to renew in advance of the meeting, visit centre.nikkeiplace.org/support-us/ membership/, or call 604.777.7000 to reach our Reception: Tuesday – Saturday, 9:30am – 5:00pm.

NNMCC Reception & Museum Shop Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00am – 5:00pm; Sunday & Monday Closed. NIKKEI NATIONAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTRE 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC, V5E 4M7 Tel: 604.777.7000 Fax: 604.777.7001 E-mail: info@nikkeiplace.org NIKKEI SENIORS HEALTH CARE AND HOUSING SOCIETY 6680 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC, V5E 4N3 Tel: 604.777.5000 Fax: 604.777.5050

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Friday Nights at Nikkei Garden, August 2020, 5pm – 9pm presented by Nikkei Matsuri Bring the joy of Nikkei Matsuri to your own home this summer by joining us online as we share Japanese traditions, Matsuri Memories, and creative activities for the whole family. In response to restrictions and guidelines due to COVID-19, this year our Nikkei Matsuri mini-committee will host Friday Nights at Nikkei Garden, 5pm – 9pm, during the month of August. Take-out Japanese food, visit the outdoor museum pop-up shop, and enjoy our beautiful Nikkei Garden. Outdoor and indoor access will be limited based on capacity and any restrictions in August. Stay tuned for updates throughout the summer.

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Nikkei 日系 10am – 1pm, 2 – 5pm, Tuesday-Saturday (closed Sunday, Monday). Last entry 4:30pm. The term nikkei originated in Japan during the Meiji imperial restoration, beginning in 1868, to identify Japanese immigrants and their descendants residing in foreign countries. In this exhibit, you will find stories by and about Japanese Canadians – nikkei in Canada – drawn from the Nikkei National Museum’s archive. Meet the people behind stories of arrival, the Tent coverings in Nikkei Garden resilience of community, and the experience of generTelus has kindly loaned a number of their open-air (roof-only) tents to ations through the intersections of migration, racism, the NNMCC to allow us to move some of our summer programs outside. identity, and belonging. Gallery admission $5 or free Thanks to these tents, our Tanabata Flea Market and Manga Camp can run to NNMCC members in the Nikkei Garden, improving airflow and safety for all who attend while also protecting people and materials from sun and rain. Thank you, Telus!

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Remembering Shoji Nishihata (1933-2020) Shoji was one of the museum’s most dedicated and beloved volunteers for over 24 years. His easy-going nature brought a lot of comfort and joy to those of us who worked with him, and rain or shine he came to help every week. His contributions to the museum were many, including drawing the Powell Street map and providing his family photographs for our Powell Street Monogatari exhibit and publication (2011). Join us in paying tribute to Shoji by watching the documentary “Shoji” by Jon Chiang www.jonchiang.com/shoji. Our sincere condolences to Shoji’s children James, Paul, and David, to his grandchildren, and to the Nishihata family and friends.

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NEW Family History One-on-One Trace your family history with expert personal assistance from Nikkei National Museum’s Research Archivist Linda Kawamoto Reid. Currently, as our Charles Kadota Resource Center adapts to new pandemic protocols, we remain closed for in-person research, but for the first time, we offer new and unique distanced individual sessions. Private sessions are one hour in length, by telephone, skype, whatsapp, google meet or zoom, to guide you in your research of your family history. $25/hr + GST. 20% discount for members. Please pre-pay online, and we will contact you to make an appointment. Questions: jcnm@nikkeiplace.org 604.777.7000 ext.109 Tue-Sat centre.nikkeiplace.org/family-history-one-on-one Nikkei Poem Thank you to those who submitted a poem, image, and recording. Artist collective Tasai will premiere the project online in July. Please check our website and social media channels for updates.

Asahi on Powell Grounds; Vancouver, BC, circa 1925. Ed and Muriel Kitagawa collection, NNM 2010.30.1.1.124, part of the Home Run at Powell Street project.

Charles H. Kadota Resource Centre Visit NIKKEIMUSEUM.ORG to explore over 31,000 items! The Resource Centre is available by appointment only and with added safety measures. Please contact our Research Archivist Linda Kawamoto Reid at lreid@ nikkeiplace.org for research inquiries or our Collections Manager Lisa Uyeda at luyeda@nikkeiplace.org for donation inquiries. Thank you to the Adhoc Redress Committee for their support.

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society IN APPRECIATION TO THE COMMUNITY by Ruth Coles, President NSHCHS The following article is written by Ruth Coles on behalf of the Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society to express our appreciation to individuals and community organizations during these difficult times for their support and encouragement to frontline staff, and the residents of the Robert Nimi Nikkei Home and New Sakura-so.

long hours. But they have responded with determination and courage, for which we are forever grateful. We have had considerable support from the community since the coronavirus outbreak , and often from unexpected places. For example

• A local distillery has made available the hand sanitizers that are needed by staff and residents Throughout the world, we have been experiencing the outbreak of the coronavirus. There have been millions of cases of individuals diagnosed • Family members and children/grandchildren have with the virus and tragically thousands of deaths as a result of the illness. been sending in special notes or drawings to cheer It is unimaginable to think of the pain and sorrow that this has caused up their relatives throughout the world. And while our thoughts and prayers go out to • Gladstone Language School teachers and students those individuals and families who have suffered through loss or severe have been sending in many drawings with words of illnesses, we are thankful that both the Robert Nimi Nikkei Home and New encouragement and support Sakura-so have been spared. • Van Noort Bulb Co. provided sleeves of tulips to There have been many outbreaks of the disease within our health region, support our Front-Line Workers but our staff, over the weeks, and with guidance from the Fraser Health Authority, have instituted severe precautionary measures in order to prevent • Bento Sushi has provided a sushi lunch for the staff the introduction of the virus into our residence. There have been many • Global TV has aired several notices of the need by changes to the care, activities and daily schedules for both the seniors our Society for contributions from the community and the staff and the closure of Hi Genki Restaurant to the public. Some • Special treats such as cupcakes, cookies and other of these have been mandated by the Fraser Health Authority, and have edibles have been provided for staff in appreciation added substantially to the cost of our operation. of their work Increased isolation, more frequent sanitation measures, reduction in group • Financial donations have been received to support activities, changes to meal times, are just a few of the adjustments that the Society with the increased costs that dealing with have been made to the daily routine of our residents. Change can be this pandemic has incurred stressful, particularly for seniors, and that has also had to be managed. It has not been easy. Staff have altered their schedules, and often worked These demonstrations of support are encouraging, and provide moral as well as material support to the staff for their continued care of our seniors. It shows that the community cares about the work they are doing, OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT and community support is vital. NIKKEI NATIONAL We thank all of you for your support and understandMUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTRE ing, and look forward to your continued support as we • Purchase a membership for yourself or a loved one. • Volunteer! Download an application at: centre.nikkeiplace.org/ volunteer. • Shop at the Museum Gift Shop. • Attend one of our upcoming fundraising events. • Consider us as the venue for your next party, meeting, or special event. • Donate to the Tree of Prosperity or Nikkei Place Foundation. Please contact Nikkei Place Foundation at 604.777.2122 or gifts@ nikkeiplace.org if you would like information on becoming a donor.

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battle the current pandemic. As the restrictions begin to be eased, new and creative methods will have to be instituted to care for our seniors. Our staff are up for the challenge, but need your encouragement as we move forward. We ask that you care for each other, and especially for those who are vulnerable in the community. We all look to the day, when the pandemic subsides, and we can return to our daily lives without anxiety or fear. We hope that day will not be too far into the future. For more information please visit our website at seniors.nikkeiplace.org.

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

THANK YOU! Gifts from May 26, 2020 — June 29, 2020 inclusive In Memory of Tsuruko Hosaka Anonymous (3) In Memory of Robert Banno Archie & Yasuko Kamiya Jaroslava Belava Donald Cooper Frank & Naomi Kamiya Ruth Cridland Masako & Stanley Fukawa In Memory of Peter & Louise Doi Keiko Funahashi Ristuko Veronica Imai Akiko Gomyo Dr. Anita Gartner Irene H Imai & Family Thomas Hara The Kaminishi Family George & Elaine Homma Frank & Naomi Kamiya In Memory of Yeiji Inouye Randy Iwata Paul & Diana Kariya Shaun Inouye Takashi Iwata Yukiko Kojima In Memory of Jack Gin Family Foundation, Yuki Kurozumi Tosh Nakamoto’s held at Vancouver Foundation Roger Lee 10th Anniversary Frank & Naomi Kamiya Mizue Mori Arlene K. Mayede Yoshiko Karasawa Jane Nimi Mitsuko Kawashima Howard Shimokura In Memory of Edmund & Doris Kimura Tom Teranishi George Oshiro George Koyanagi Tara & Alan Twigg Emily Yakashiro Lorna T. Koyanagi Norine K. Yamamoto In Memory of Kay Kazue Kozaka Mas & Kaori Yano Gordon Ohtsuji Maison Pilates Studio In Memory of George & Kaz Koyanagi Cathy Marumoto Dorothy Cruickshank Roberta H Nasu Terry Matsumoto Catherine Tagseth Nancy Miki & Adam Smith In Memory of In Memory of Frank Fukui Marianne Natsuhara Setsu Miyanishi Frank & Naomi Kamiya Tony Naets Anonymous The Murakami Family Alan Nakamoto In Memory of Roberta H. Nasu Ken & Junko Shinozaki Terry Sakai Norman Shuto & Patricia Wallace Denis & Pat Nishi Bruce & Nan Tasaka Peter & B. Masako Stillwell In Memory of Roy Itaru Irene L. Yano Sandra Sugimoto Hamaguchi & Audrey In Memory of Reiko Suda Akira Takeda Atsuko Hamaguchi Nancy Suda Chris Ullens Estate of the Late Roy I Dan Uyesugi Hamaguchi In Memory of Estate of Akiko Wakabayashi Marie Teraguchi In Memory of Yuichiro Watanabe Sam Yamamoto Kachiko Higashitani Dr. Michael C. Wilson Zeb Andre In Memory of Mercedes Wong Anonymous (2) Mary Yamada Sam Yamamoto Justin Hutchison Yoshiharu & Fumiko Aura Irene L. Yano Shirley Hutchison S. Hinada Mas & Kaori Yano DONATIONS

HONOURS & TRIBUTES

Terry & Mari, Jason, Kristiane & Tyler Sam Yamamoto In Memory of Masako Linda Tanaka-Yada Carina Abe Harry & May Chan Preston & Joyce Chan In Memory of Hideko Yoshioka Sam Yamamoto MONTHLY GIVING Anonymous (2) Carina Abe Ian & Debbie Burgess Brian & Marcia Carr Patricia H. Chan Michael & Ruth Coles Grant Dustin Junichi & Atsumi Hashimoto Tad & Mitsuko Hosoi Kenneth & Bernadine Isomura Tomoko Ito Mary F. Kawamoto Satoko Kobayashi Katsuko (Kitty) Kodama Greciana Langamon Tommy Li Stewart Kawaguchi Ted Kawamoto Catherine Makihara Masako & Ken Moriyama Anne Motozono Daigo Naito Roberta H. Nasu Takeshi & Mizuho Ogasawara Chris Oikawa Hanako Oye

Linda Kawamoto Reid Jim & Norma Sawada Audrey Shimozawa Eva Shiho Barbara Shishido Charlotte Takasaki Sharlene A. Tabata 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 Gwendolyn Yip & Santa Ono HERITAGE ESTATE GIVING CIRCLE Tamiko Corbett Yoshiharu Hashimoto Mitsuo & Emmie Hayashi George & Elaine Homma Betty Issenman Sato Kobayashi Gordon Kadota Cathy Makihara Robert & Jane Nimi Carrie Okano Linda Kawamoto Reid Richard & Gail Shinde Norman Shuto Haruko Takamori Sian Tasaka Fred & Linda Yada Sam Yamamoto

THANK YOU for your support of Nikkei Place! We apologize for any errors or omissions on this list.

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Nikkei Place mourns the loss of Robert Tadashi Banno The Nikkei Place Foundation (NPF), the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNMCC), and the Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society (NSHCHS) are deeply saddened to share the news that Robert Tadashi Banno, the founding Board President of the Nikkei Place Foundation, passed away unexpectedly on June 16, 2020. A memorial site honouring his life and work can be viewed at: www.nikkeiplacefoundation.org/banno.

Robert was a beloved, respected, and generous leader of the Japanese Canadian community. His contribution to Nikkei Place was far reaching. He led the efforts to unite four distinctly different organizations together to create Nikkei Place, consisting of a museum, cultural centre, senior’s housing, and assisted living residence for seniors. He was also instrumental in identifying the land where Nikkei Place is now situated and served as the NNMCC’s Founding President. Ruth Coles, Board President of the NSHCHS, reflects on these efforts, noting that Robert “was a quiet, unassuming man who had a vision, and his commitment and style of leadership in which he would seek common ground, appreciating the contribution of each of the organizations and providing guidance where conflicts occured, turned his vision into reality.” In 2002, Robert founded the Nikkei Place Foundation to support the fundraising efforts of both the NNMCC and the NSHCHS. He served as the Foundation’s Board President until his death. Craig Natsuhara, NNMCC Director, recalls that “one achievement of the NNMCC Robert was particularly proud of was the Museum’s making Japanese-Canadian history available online for people to access across Canada, in Japan and globally.” Robert practiced aboriginal law, corporate law, and commercial law for over 50 years at DLA Piper Canada (previously Davis LLP). Craig notes that “Robert was appreciated by younger lawyers since he was friendly and supportive to everyone. He was well known for his walking throughout the firm’s hallways each morning and afternoon, catching up with colleagues professionally and socially.” Robert was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2013 and in the same year, he was also awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions towards the Japanese Canadian community. In 2016, Robert was honoured with Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun. Prior to his death, Robert was informed that he would be awarded with a Meritorious Service Cross (Civil Division), one of the highest honours in the country, by the Governor General of Canada. He felt grateful, and remarked, “It feels really good to be recognized by Canada”. Naomi Kawamura, Executive Director of the Nikkei Place Foundation, shares, “I learned a great deal about

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leadership from Robert. He commanded the room, not by being the loudest or the most critical, but because he always centered the community in decision-making, and led with a great deal of integrity, kindness, and humility. He also always greeted you with a smile. The staff and I will miss him greatly.” Ruth Coles reflects, “I worked alongside Robert for approximately 30 years, during the continuing development of Nikkei Place, and can say without fear of contradiction that he will be missed. I will miss him. But his legacy will live on.” The Board and staff of the Nikkei Place Foundation, the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, and the Nikkei Seniors and Healthcare & Housing Society offer our deepest condolences to his wife Cathy Makihara, his son Kevin (Christine), his granddaughter Eva, his brothers Victor and Dale, his extended family, and to his many friends. Please keep them in your thoughts at this time. NPF has created a memorial site to honour Robert’s life and work at www.nikkeiplacefoundation.org/banno. Here, you can share some of your memories, stories, photographs, or condolences with the family, or make a donation in his memory. A fund will also be established in Robert Tadashi Banno’s name to be held at the Nikkei Place Foundation. Robert will be greatly missed. 日系プレース基金より、当基金理事長 Robert Tadashi Banno （ロバート・タダシ・バンノ）が、2020年6月16日、急逝致しましたことを謹んでお知らせ致します。故人の生涯及び功績を偲び、追悼サイトを立ち上げました。故人との思い出や写真、ご遺族へのお悔やみのお言葉などありましたら、こちらのウェブサイトにてシェアいただけますよう、よろしくお願い致します：www.nikkeiplacefoundation.org/banno また、日系プレース基金では、ロバート・タダシ・バンノの名前を冠した基金を設立する予定です。日系プレース基金、日系文化センター・博物館及び、日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会の理事並びにスタッフ一同より、故人へのご冥福をお祈りするとともに、キャシー・マキハラ夫人、ご令孫のエヴァ、ご子息のケビン・クリスチーヌご夫妻、ご兄弟のビクターとデール、その他ご遺族の皆様、ご友人の皆様に、心からのお悔やみを申し上げます。

Celebrating Japanese Canadian Art and Culture Program Guide Table of Contents しおり President’s Message 会長のメッセージ ............................................................ 46 Covid 19 Pivot................................................................................................... 47 Paueru Mashup パウエルマッシュアップ............................................................ 48 DTES Community Care Program ダウンタウンイーストサイド、コミュニティケアプログラム...... 50 Powellstfest Kids’ Camp 2020 パウエル祭キッズキャンプ２０２０...................... 51 Special Event 特別イベント: Ed Nakawatase with images by Tamio Wakayama.................. 51 Program Schedule プログラムスケジュール & Emcees 司会............................. 52 Opening Ceremonies 開会式............................................................................ 53 The Giving Ceremony ギフト贈呈式.................................................................. 54 Donate 寄付...................................................................................................... 54 Telethon Artists 注目アーティスト...................................................................... 55 Community Directory コミュニティディレクトリー.............................................. 61 Membership メンバーシップ.............................................................................. 78 Powell Street Festival Merchandise パウエル祭関連商品................................ 79 Special Thanks 特別な感謝.............................................................................. 80 About Us 私たちについて................................................................................... 81

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President’s Message 会長の挨拶

by Eddy Takayanagi エディ・タカヤナギ

On behalf of the Board of Directors, staff and volunteers, I want to extend our hope that everyone is safe and healthy during these unprecedented times.

Unfortunately, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the 44th Powell Street Festival is not occurring as a public gathering event. We remain committed to our vision of a society enriched and interconnected through Japanese Canadian arts and culture. To further our vision this year’s celebration takes the form of an online streaming Telethon. You will find many of your favourite local Japanese Canadian artists, our food and craft vendors, and our community partners and stakeholders taking part in the weekend’s online celebration and affirmation of our resilient spirit. While we are physically separated, we remain connected as a community. We have deep historic ties to the Paueru Gai neighbourhood and acknowledge that it is the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and TsleilWaututh nations. We return each year to the neighbourhood to strengthen our relationship with the current residents and demonstrate our commitment to empowering the community.

The current residents of the neighbourhood have been particularly impacted by the pandemic with urgent need for basic human necessities. Towards our goal of empowering the community and fostering our connections all of the proceeds of this weekend’s telethon will fund our PowellStFest Community Kitchen Program. Throughout the weekend we will be providing meals, personal hygiene items and supplies to those who are most in need. It is our hope that we are sowing the seeds for resilience and self-sustainability in the community. The well-being and vitality of the current residents of the neighbourhood and our ongoing relationships are key elements for success of our annual festival. With your help and support we will ensure that the Powell Street Festival and our community will persevere into the future. Your financial support will help to reinvigorate the neighbourhood and ensure our annual return to the historic area to celebrate our extended community. We hope you enjoy this year’s offerings, our streaming performances, online marketplace and demonstration of our indomitable spirit. and thank you for your support demonstrating our collective resilience, solidarity and commitment to community.

Sakura Singers Photo: Noah Photography

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理事会、スタッフ、ボランティアを代表して、私はこの前例のない時代の中、みなさんが安全、健康であることを願っています。

残念ながら、新型コロナウイルスのパンデミックにより、第44回パウエル祭は一般向けの集まりとしては開催されません。私たちは、日系カナダ人の芸術と文化を通じて豊かになり、相互に結びつく社会のビジョンに引き続き貢献していきます。私たちのビジョンをさらに広げるために、今年のお祭りではオンラインテレソンを行います。週末のオンラインテレソンでは、お気に入りの地元の日系カナダ人アーティスト、多くの飲食や工芸品のベンダー、コミュニティパートナーや関係者に会い、我々の打たれ強さを再確認することができます。

私たちは物理的には離れていますが、コミュニティとしてつながっています。私たちはパウエル街地区との深い歴史的な繋がりがあり、それがマスクイアム、スコーミッシュ、およびツレイウォートゥスの領土であると認識しています。私たちはコミュニティに力を与える取り組みの一部として、毎年地元を訪れ、現在の居住者との関係を築いています。

地域の現在の居住者は、パンデミックの影響を特に受けており、基本的な生活の必需品を緊急に必要としています。コミュニティを活性化し、つながりを育むために、テレソンの収益すべてがDTESコミュニティケアプログラムの資金となります。週末を通して、私たちは食事、個人の衛生用品、物資を最も必要としている人々に提供します。コミュニティが回復し、自立する手助けが出来ればと願っています。地域の住民の幸福と活力、そして私たちの継続的な関係は、毎年恒例のお祭りを成功させるための重要な要素です。パウエル祭とコミュニティが今後も変わらないように、皆様のご協力とご支援を賜りますようお願い申し上げます。みなさんの金銭的支援のおかげで、地域を活性化し幅広いコミュニティを祝うパウエル祭を、歴史的なエリアで毎年開催することが出来ています。今年のプログラムに含まれるストリーミングパフォーマンスやオンラインマーケットプレイスをお楽しみいただき、我々の不屈の精神を見ていただけたら幸いです。我々が信じる共同的回復力、結束そしてコミュニティーへのコミットメントへの、皆様のサポートに感謝します。

Our COVID-19 Pivot

Because we are unable to present all the amazing acts, demonstrations and vendors who were selected to participate at this year’s festival, we have created multiple platforms to showcase them and to create opportunities for community members to connect. • Check out our pre-Telethon programs. There are activities for all ages! • The Telethon featured artists are included in this print program. Visit our website for updates regarding the detailed schedule of appearances. • Peruse our Community Directory to connect with our crafters, artists, martial arts groups, food vendors and grassroots organizations.

COVID-19ピボット今年の祭りに参加者として選ばれた素晴らしいパフォーマンス、デモンストレーション、ベンダーのすべてを披露することはできないので、コミュニティメンバーがつながる機会を設け、彼らの紹介を行うために複数のプラットフォームを作成しました。 • テレトン前に行われるプログラムをチェックしてください。あらゆる年齢層向けのアクティビティがあります！ • テレソンの注目アーティストはこのプログラムに含まれています。出演の詳細スケジュールについては、ウェブサイトをご覧ください。 • コミュニティ名鑑を熟読して、クラフト製作者、アーティスト、武道グループ、飲食ベンダー、地域の団体と繋がりましょう。

Pre-Teleth on Activities

get invol ved!

Paueru Mashup Dance パウエルマッシュアップ DTES Community Care Program ダウンタウンイーストサイド、コミュニティケアプログラム PowellStFest Kids’ Camp 2020 パウエル祭キッズキャンプ２０２０ Public Zoom Talk: Ed Nakawatase with Images by Tamio Wakayama 講演会

エド・ナカワタセ、タミオ・ワカヤマの写真とともに

Teleth on

support!

Live stream!!

Opening Ceremonies 開会式

sχɬemtəna:t, St’agid Jaad, Audrey Siegl and Vancouver Taiko Society

Giving Ceremony ギフト贈呈式 Teleth on Artists 注目アーティスト

Pledge!!

connect!

Community Directory

Connect with community organizations, food vendors, crafters, artists and martial arts groups #powellstfest

Paueru Mashup Dance

Pre-Telethon

パウエルマッシュアップ

The 44th Powell Street Festival brings a new celebratory community dance, Paueru Mashup. Learn it from your own home, then join the final digital performance! Onibana Taiko and Lisa Gelley (Company 605) have integrated classic Powell Street Festival sounds and gestures, namely borrowing from the traditional Tanko Bushi dance and Radio Taiso morning exercises, to create a fun and accessible collective line dance. This 3.5 minute piece will suit participants of all ages and experiences. Learn Paueru Mashup at your own pace through an instructional video, and join us live for four online lessons throughout July. Free live online lessons on July 7, 9, 14, and 16 from 5 to 6pm. Visit powellstreetfestival.com to find out more. 第44回パウエル祭では、新しい形のコミュニティダンス、パウエルマッシュアップを開催します。それぞれご自宅で練習して、本番のデジタルパフォーマンスに参加しましょう！鬼束太鼓とリサ・ゲリー（Company 605）が、パウエル祭の伝統的な音楽と踊りを組み合わせました。この3分半の作品は、年齢・経験を問わずに楽しんでいただけます。練習ビデオを見ながら自分のペースでパウエルマッシュアップを練習して、7月を通して行われる4つのオンラインレッスンに参加してください。無料のオンラインライブレッスンは、7月７日、９日、１４日と１６日の午後５時から６時に行われます。詳細については、powellstreetfestival.comをご覧ください。 Onibana Taiko 鬼束太鼓 Formed in 2016, Onibana Taiko are three veterans of Vancouver’s Taiko community, whose depth of performance and taiko experiences combine to over 100 years. The group is comprised of Eileen Kage, Noriko Kobayashi and Leslie Komori. Onibana Taiko’s performances and presentations draw on traditional Japanese folk rituals, such as minyo and matsuri, and combine them with its member’s unique and varied experiences as Nikkei settlers. With roots in radical feminist punk and political activism, Onibana Taiko aims to empower various communities, including QTIBIPOC, Nikkei and Asian Diaspora. They would like to acknowledge that they are settlers of Japanese ancestry who are privileged to live and work on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. Through performance, Onibana Taiko seeks to re-examine and reinterpret musical and movement elements from Shinto and Buddhist ceremonies. Onibana Taiko allows audience members to commune with our ancestors via obon dance, song, sensu (fan) cheerleading, fue, shamisen and kick-ass taiko. 2016年に結成された鬼束太鼓は、バンクーバーの太鼓コミュニティのベテラン3人で構成されており、パフォーマンスと太鼓の歴史は100年以上、受け継がれています。メンバーは、アイリーン・カゲ、ノリコ・コバヤシ、レスリー・コモリです。鬼束太鼓のパフォーマンスとプレゼンテーションには、民謡やお祭りなどの日本の伝統的な民俗儀礼が取り入れられ、さらに日系カナダ人であるメンバーのユニークで多様な体験が織り交ぜられています。鬼花太鼓のルーツは、過激なフェミニストパンクと政治活動で、QTIBIPOC、日系、アジアのディアスポラを含むさまざまなコミュニティをエンパワーすることを目指しています。彼らは、自分たちが、スコーミッシュ、ツレイウォートゥス、マスクイアムの人々の土地に開拓者としてやってきた日系人の子孫であり、そこに原住民の許可なく居住し、働く特権を享受する立場にあると認識しています鬼束太鼓はパフォーマンスを通じて、神道や仏教の儀式から音楽や運動の要素を再検討し、再解釈することを目指しています。観客は、鬼束太鼓のお盆踊り、歌、扇子のチアリーディング、笛、三味線、蹴り太鼓などを通じて祖先と交流することができます。

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Company 605 カンパニー６０５ Lisa Gelley is an artist living and working on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She is the descendant of a third generation Japanese Canadian Mother and a French/Polish Father. She is Artistic Co-Director of Company 605, an arts organization in Vancouver, producing various dance projects and performances through a shared creative process. The artists place emphasis on rigorous choreographic propositions and movement invention, building physically demanding work that juxtaposes raw energy with precision, and highlights effort, risk, and interconnection. 605 is an ongoing exchange between separate people, bodies, and ideas, recognizing and celebrating the unique possibilities created in their attempt to co-exist. Valuing collaboration as an essential tool for new directions in dance, Company 605 continues to awaken a fresh and ever-evolving aesthetic, together building a highly athletic art form derived from the human experience. With an expanding repertoire of diverse works, the company has performed from coast to coast in over 30 cities across Canada, as well as in the US, Central America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Their collaborations with filmmakers have allowed 605’s work to be shared globally, with short dance films shown at dance-on-screen festivals around the world. www.company605.ca リサ・ゲリーは、マスクイアム、スコーミッシュ、ツレイウォートゥスの先住民族が伝統的に先祖代々受け継いできた先住民族の領土に住み、活動するアーティストです。母親は日系3世のカナダ人、父親はフランス/ポーランド人です。彼女はバンクーバーの芸術団体であるカンパニー605の芸術共同ディレクターであり、チームワークを通じてさまざまなダンスプロジェクトやパフォーマンスを制作しています。参加アーティストたちは、綿密な振り付けと動きの創造に重点を置き、生々しくも正確な、肉体的には極めて厳しい動きを実現しながら、努力、リスク、および相互接続を強調します。605 は、異なる身体やアイデア交流をもたらし、他と共存する可能性を認識、祝賀します。また、カンパニー605は、ダンスの新しい方向性にとって不可欠なツールとしてコラボレーションに重点を置き、人間の経験から生まれた高度に流動的なアートの形を構築しな

がら、新鮮で進化し続ける美学を呼び起こし続けています。当社はレパートリーを拡大しており、カナダの30を超える都市だけでなく、米国、中央アメリカ、ヨーロッパ、アジア、オーストラリアの各地でも公演しています。映画製作者とのコラボにより、605の作品は世界中で共有されており、短編ダンス映画は世界中のフェスティバルで上映されています。www.company605.ca Sophia Wolfe is a contemporary dance artist who also works in visual media including photography, film, and video art. She is currently based out of Vancouver, Canada on unceded Coast Salish territories. Sophia graduated from Modus Operandi in 2014, and has since been dancing and touring with companies and independent choreographers such as Company 605, Co-Erasga, Chick Snipper, Zahra Shahab, Cindy Mochizuki, Antonio Somera, Kelly McInnes, The Only Animal and New World Theatre. Outside of dance performance, Sophia has a regular practice in documentation of live performance through video, video editing and photography. She

is the Artistic Director of F-O-R-M (Festival Of Recorded Movement) that includes international film screenings, community engagement, and commissioning youth artists to create new short movement films. (www.f-o-r-m.ca) ソフィア・ウルフは、写真、映画、ビデオアートなどのビジュアルメディアでも活躍するコンテンポラリーダンスアーティストです。彼女は現在、原住民コーストセーリッシュ族の領土であるカナダの北西海岸地域、バンクーバーを拠点としています。ソフィアは2014年にモダスオペランディを卒業し、その後、カンパニー 605、Co-Erasga、チックスニッパー、Zahra Shahab、シンディ・モチズキ、アントニオ・ソメラ、Kelly McInnes、The Only Animal and New Worldなどの企業や独立系振付家と一緒にダンスやツアーを行っています。また、劇場、ダンスパフォーマンス以外にも、ビデオ、ビデオ編集、写真を通じたライブパフォーマンスの記録も定期的に作成しています。彼女はF-O-R-M（Festival Of Recorded Movement）のアーティスティックディレクターで、国際映画上映会の開催やコミュニティ活動を行うほか、若者のアーティストによる新しい短編映画の制作を監修しています。（www.f-o-r-m.ca）

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Pre-Telethon

DTES Community Care Program ダウンタウンイーストサイド、コミュニティケアプログラム 100% of the Telethon proceeds will fund our new PowellStFest Community Kitchen that will service the DTES neighbourhood. The Powell Street Festival currently produces and supports multiple DTES events as part of our DTES Community Care Program, such as the Hanami Cherry Blossom Event and the Asahi Tribute Game. These programs raise awareness of Japanese Canadian history and culture, while creating inclusive, capacity-building experiences that foster economic and social equity for everyone. The money raised during the Telethon will allow us to enhance our DTES Community Care Program, continue our collaborative role in the DTES Community Kitchens Network, and establish our own PowellStFest Community Kitchen.

The PowellStFest Community Kitchen program will provide meals, nourishing low-income communities who have insufficient food, and cooking programs, imparting new skills and building community. This not only offers a social support system and positive mental health experience, but it also gives people financial and personal fulfilment. These programs provide meaningful and sustainable connection to the historic location of the early Japanese settlers prior to their forced removal during the Second World War. Through our practice of social justice, we honour this heritage while seeking to be accountable as settler-colonizers and acknowledging the larger narrative of displacement on these unceded territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam peoples.

Behind the scenes, we are delivering 1,500 care packages to unhoused and precariously housed people living in the Powell Street neighbourhood the week of July 27. This is a large undertaking, which we could not do without the logistical support from our DTES partner organizations and financial support from Vancouver Foundation.

Eddy Takayanagi serves Japanese curry at Oppenheimer Park, 2019

テレソンによる収益の全ては、パウエル・ストリート・フェスティバル・コミュニティキッチン・プログラムに充てられ、ダウンタウンイーストサイドのコミュニティのために使われます。

パウエル祭は、花見イベントや朝日トリビュート試合など、イーストサイド・コミュニティ・ケア・プログラムの一環として数々のイベントをプロデュースしています。これらのプログラムは、日系カナダ人の歴史や文化に対する認識を高めることを目的としながら、同時に社会経済的平等の促進や、あらゆる人々に開かれた場所づくりを目指しています。

パウエル祭コミュニティ・キッチン・プログラムは、食料のアクセスの限られた低所得コミュニティに食事や料理教室を提供し、コミュニティの絆を強めます。これにより、社会的なサポートシステムが強化され、参加者に精神健康的にポジティブな時間を提供できるだけでなく、彼らに経済的、個人的充足を感じてもらうことができます。

このようなプログラムを通じてこそ、パウエル祭は日系開拓移民が第二次世界大戦で強制移住させられる以前に住んでいた地域との関係を意義ある、長期的なものにすることができます。社会正義の活動により、我々は自分たちの遺産を祝福しながら、開拓移住者として、入植者としての責任をもち、ツレイワトゥース、スクオミッシュ、マスクエムの人々の領土において継続する強制移住の歴史を認識します。

セレモニーの裏舞台では、7月の最終週に1500点のケアパッケージを、住む所がないか住む場所を転々とすることを強いられているパウエル街の住民に届けます。これは、イーストサイドのパートナー組織の後援なしには実現することのできない大きな試みです。

We thank our DTES community partners, including Aboriginal Front Door, Carnegie Community Centre, Carnegie Community

Action Project, DTES Neighbourhood House, Health Through Spirit, Muslim Care Centre, Overdose Prevention Sites, PACE, WISH, Right to Remain, SRO Collaborative, VANDU, Watari, WePress Community Art Space, Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society, Vancouver Buddhist Temple, Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall, Vancouver Womens Health Centre.

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PowellStFest Kids’ Camp 2020

Pre-Telethon

パウエル祭キッズキャンプ２０２０ Activities at Home お家で楽しめるアクティビティ

This summer is unlike any we’ve experienced before! For many families, this means finding new activities for kids at home. Powell Street Festival is here for you!

As a Pre-Telethon offering, we are releasing an at-home Japanese-themed summer camp plan with bilingual resources for kids, ages 5-7, K-Grade 1. Minimal parent supervision required!

Get into the Matsuri spirit and immerse yourself in Japanese cultural activities during the five-day lead up to the Telethon, July 27 to July 31.

Register by July 24, and you’ll receive a PDF Activity Kit, with daily themes and supporting video links, book recommendations, and suggested print material. These resources are structured like a five-day summer camp but can also be done at your own pace! If you are interested, please register at: https://bit.ly/2BqhClz Follow our social media channels to stay updated!

If you have any questions at all, feel free to email Samantha, at samantha@powellstreetfestival.com.

この夏は、これまで経験したことのない夏です。多くの家族の方々

にとっては、お家でできる新しいアクティビティを見つけるということですよね。パウエル祭が協力します！

テレソン前のオファリングとして、5〜7歳の子供（Kグレード1）のバイリンガル教材を備えた、日本をテーマにした在宅サマーキャンププランを提供します。保護者の方々の参加は最小限で大丈夫！テレソンが行われる前の5日間、7月27日から7月31日まで、祭りの精神に触れ、日本の文化活動を思う存分にお楽しみください。 7月24日までに登録した方に、PDFアクティビティキットを送らせていただきます。 PDFアクティビティキットには、毎日のテーマとサポートビデオリンク、おすすめの書籍、印刷して使える教材が含まれています。これらの教材は5日間のサマーキャンプのように構成されていますが、自分のペースで行うこともできます。興味がある方は、こちらで登録をしてください。 https://bit.ly/2BqhClz

我々のソーシャルメディアをフォローして、最新情報をチェックしてください！何か不明な点等がありましたら、サマンサにsamantha@powellstreetfestival.comまでメールでお問い合わせください。

Special Events 特別イベント

Public Talk: Ed Nakawatase with Images by Tamio Wakayama エド・ナカワタセ講演会、タミオ・ワカヤマの写真とともに Saturday July 18 1pm – 2pm PST 7月7月18日（土）午後1〜2時 Join us for this live Zoom talk in tribute to photographer Tamio Wakayama!

ライブZoomイベント、写真家タミオ・ワカヤマ追悼講演会に参加しませんか？ In the 1960s Ed Nakawatase and Tamio Wakayama volunteered with the SNCC (Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee) during the American civil rights movement in the deep south. Bearing witness to the social justice movement that unfolded before their eyes; the events shaped the identities of both these men and impacted their activist work in the future.

1960年代、アメリカ南部における公民権運動のさなか、エド・ナカワタセとタミオ・ワカヤマは、SNCC (学生による非暴力統率委員会)にボランティアとして参加しました。目の前で社会正義運動を目撃したことは、二人のその後の活動家としての人生を決定づけることとなりました。

Zoom!

In honor of photographer Tamio Wakayama, special guest Ed Nakawatase will speak about his memories and experiences with Wakayama and making connections to this present moment in relationship to building alliances and the ongoing social justice work with Black, Indigenous and POC communities.

スペシャルゲスト、エド・ナカワタセ氏が、現在の黒人、原住民、有色人種コミュニティの社会正義活動や連帯作りに触れながら、故写真家タミオ・ワカヤマとの過去の活動を振り返ります。 This talk will be recorded, and a portion shown at the Powell Street Festival Telethon.

当講演会の録画の一部がパウエル祭テレソンにて公開されます。

Please visit to our website for more information and contact info [at] powellstreetfestival.com to register.

当イベントの詳細、お問合わせ先、参加登録については、パウエル祭ウェブサイト（powellstreetfestival.com）でご確認

ください。

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Program Schedule

SATURDAY AUGUST 1 2PM – 7PM

プログラムスケジュール

Join us for our LIVE online Telethon August 1, 2020 from 2pm to 7pm! Hosts Tetsuro Shigematsu and Yurie Hoyoyon will take us on a fun and heart-warming journey, presenting live performances, messages from festival vendors and friends, and opportunities to express your support for Powell Street Festival in its 44th year. Drop in and stay for a while! Tune in to our website with your family and friends to experience the spirit of the festival right from your home!

The program features taiko drumming from the rooftop of the Vancouver Japanese Language School, a Giving Ceremony to honour our connection to the Powell Street neighbourhood, a physical-distance-respecting Paueru Mashup dance, and performances from several local Japanese Canadian artists. Interspersed throughout the day, we’re bringing the festival’s sounds, excitement, and sumo to you through Spirit of Nihonmachi, a 35th Powell Street Festival anniversary film by Greg Masuda. Check out our website and Featured Artists section to learn more about our live performances and special contributions!

2020年8月1日、午後2時から7時まで、ライブオンラインテレソンにご参加ください。司会の重松てつろうさんとゆりえほよよんさんがライブパフォーマンス、お祭りの商店や関係者からのメッセージを楽しめる心温まる旅へ連れて行ってくれるでしょう！そして44年目のパウエ

ル祭を応援する絶好の機会でもあります。立ち寄ってお楽しみください！ご家族やご友人と一緒にウェブサイトからアクセスして、ご自宅からお祭りの精神を体験してください！このプログラムでは、バンクーバー日本語学校の屋上からの太鼓、パウエル街地区とのつながりを称賛するギビングセレモニー、ソーシャルディスタンスを尊重しながらのパウエルマッシュアップダンス、地元の日系カナダ人アーティストによる公演が行われます。グレッグマスダによるパウエル祭35周年記念の映画「日本町のスピリット」を通して、祭りの音、感動、相撲などを一日かけてお届けします。私たちのライブパフォーマンスとスポンサー、寄贈者、出演者の詳細については、パウエル祭協会のウェブサイトと注目アーティストページをご覧ください。

Emcees 司会

Tetsuro Shigematsu 重松てつろう

Described by The Georgia Straight as “one of the city’s best artists,” Tetsuro Shigematsu tells stories across an array of media. He is an author, playwright, broadcaster, and filmmaker. A former writer for CBC Television’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes, in 2004, he became the first person-of-colour to host a daily national radio program in Canada when he took over The Roundup on CBC Radio. His solo-work, Empire of the Son, has played in 18 cities to over 20,000 people, and was described by Colin Thomas as, “one of the best shows ever to come out of Vancouver. Ever.” His most recent work, 1 Hour Photo, published by Talonbooks, won a Jesse Award for Significant Artistic Achievement, and was nominated for a Governor General’s Award. Tetsuro recently signed a book deal with Penguin Random House to write his memoirs.

ジョージアストレートで「街で最も優れたアーティストの1人」と称えられた重松てつろうはさまざまなメディアでストーリーを語ります。彼は作家、劇作家、放送局、映画製作者です。CBCテレビの「This Hour Has 22 Minutes」の元作家で、2004年に彼はCBCラジオのラウンドアップを引き継ぎ、カナダ初、欧州人以外で毎日放送される全国ラジオのホストとなりました。

彼のソロ作品「エンパイアオブザサン」は、18の都市で2万人以上に鑑賞され、「バンクーバーで作られた作品の中で史上最高だ。」とコリン・トーマスに言われています。Talonbooksによって発行された彼の最新の作品である1 Hour Photoは、素晴らしい芸術的な功績に対してジェシー賞を受賞し、総督賞にノミネートされ

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Tetsuro

Yurie

ました。最近では、彼の回顧録を書くためにペンギンランダムハウスと本の契約を行いました。

Yurie Hoyoyon ゆりえほよよん

Yurie is a voice actress, her biggest role includes the Mobile legend character voice, which is a 75 million downloaded game. She has been a MC for poetry events for the poet Soramaru Takayama & Joy Kogawa, Nikkei Matsuri, Nikkei Talent Search, and Cherry Blossom festival. She also acts as MC for Japanese companies or community events such as MUJI and the Okinawa taiko group Chijinshu Wakatiida.

現在声優として活動しており、一番知られているのは世界一ダウンロードされている携帯ゲーム・モバイル・レジェンドのキャラクターボイスになると思います。詩人高山宙丸の詩のイベント、ジョイコガワ氏とのコラボレーションイベント、日系プレース祭り、日系タレントサーチ、桜まつりなど数々のMCを担当させていただきました。日系企業やコミュニティでは、無印良品のグランドオープンイ Peter Wong ベントMCや沖縄太鼓イベントMCなどを担当しました。

Opening Ceremonies 開会式 Coming to you live, from the rooftop of the Vancouver Japanese Language School, we begin the festivities with a greeting by PSFS President Edward Takayanagi and First Nations’ blessing by sχɬemtəna:t, St’agid Jaad, Audrey Siegl. These shall be followed by warm video hellos from government oﬃcials, including MLA Melanie Mark and Vancouver East NDP MP Jenny Kwan. The Vancouver Taiko Society will be bringing together members from diﬀerent groups to awaken the spirits in a grand sociallydistanced drumming circle.

バンクーバー日本語学校の屋上からライブでお送りする、パウエル祭協会会長のエドワード・タカヤナギからのご挨拶と、ssχɬemtəna:t, St’agid Jaadオードリー・シーグルによるファーストネーションズの祝賀でお祭りが始まります。その後、メラニー・マーク議員やバンクーバーイースト新民主党ジェニー・クワン議員などの政府関係者からの暖かいビデオが続きます。バンクーバー太鼓協会は、さまざまなグループのメンバーを集め、ソーシャルディスタンスに基づいた太鼓の演奏で精神を呼び覚ますでしょう。 sχɬemtəna:t, St’agid Jaad, Audrey Siegl sχɬemtəna:t, Audrey Siegl, an independent activist from the unceded lands of the Musqueam. She has been active on grassroots environmental and social justice-political frontline movements. Audrey has worked on raising awareness on MMIWG, the housing crisis, the Fentynal crisis, forced displacement and the connection between extractive industry projects and violations of FN, Land & human rights.

ムスクアムの譲渡されていない土地からの独立した活動家、オードリー・ジーグル。彼女は基本的な環境、社会正義、政治に対して最前線で積極的に活動しています。オードリーは、ファーストネイションの女性の行方不明・殺害、住宅危機、フェンティナル危機、強制退去、および採取産業プロジェクトとファーストネイションの侵害、土地、人権に関する意識向上に取り組んできました。

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Vancouver Taiko Society Vancouver is the birthplace of taiko in Canada and home to numerous taiko groups, each with a unique identity. The Vancouver Taiko Society (VTS) was formed in 2002, with a board made up of members of Chibi Taiko, Katari Taiko, Onibana Taiko, Sawagi Taiko, Sansho Daiko and Vancouver Okinawa Taiko. VTS has organized several Regional Taiko Gatherings for taiko players from the Pacific Northwest and has instigated/taken part in a number of large-scale collaborative projects including Taiko for Tohoku, in support of victims of the 2011 tsunami and earthquake; Against the Current, a collaboration with Indigenous artists on the theme of salmon that was performed at the 2015 Powell Street Festival and Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival; and taikotronics, in partnership with the Vancouver New Music Society. VTS is currently undertaking a feasibility study to look into the creation of a permanent Taiko Centre. www.vancouvertaiko.ca

バンクーバーはカナダの太鼓発祥の地であり、それぞれが独自のアイデンティティを持つ数多くの太鼓グループの本拠地です。バンクーバー太鼓協会（VTS）は、ちび太鼓、語り太鼓、鬼花太鼓、さわぎ太鼓、さんしょう太鼓、バンクーバー沖縄太鼓のメンバーで構成されるボードで2002年に設立されました。VTSは、太平洋岸北西部の太鼓奏者のために地域太鼓の集まりを組織し、 2011年の東北での津波と地震の犠牲者を支援するために、東北のための太鼓を含む多くの大規模な共同プロジェクトを設立しました。アゲインスト・ザ・カレントでは、 2015年のパウエル祭とダウンタウン・イーストサイドHeart of the City Festivalで行われたサーモンをテーマに先住民のアーティストとコラボレーションしました。また、バンクーバーニューミュージックソサエティと提携してタイコトロニクスを行いました。VTSは現在、太鼓センターの創設の実現可能性を調査・検討しています。

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The Giving Ceremony

SATURDAY AUGUST 1 2PM – 7PM

ギフト贈呈式 The health of the DTES neighbourhood is directly linked to the health of the Powell Street Festival. To symbolize this reciprocal relationship, we are staging a ceremony which will offer furoshiki-wrapped gifts to our DTES friends and community partners while respecting physical-distancing protocols. This presentation will be shared during the live Telethon to honour our ancestor’s connection to the Powell Street area and acknowledge the larger narrative of displacement that continues today.

ダウンタウンイーストサイドの健康衛生は、パウエル祭の健康衛生と直結しています。この相互関係を象徴し、今年のパウエル祭では敬意ある物理的距離を祝うセレモニーを行い、イーストサイドの友人やコミュニティパートナーに風呂敷包みのギフトを贈ります。この相互関係を象徴し、今年のパウエル祭ではソーシャルディスタンスを守しながらセレモニーを行い、イーストサイドの友人やコミュニティパートナーに風呂敷包みのギフトを贈ります。

Donate 寄付

Now is the time to show our collective resilience, solidarity, and community care to support those in need during this challenging time. All the funds raised from the Telethon between now and August 1st, 2020 will be used to launch our new program, the PowellStFest Community Kitchen. Starting in the fall of 2020, four peers from the neighbourhood will be employed to cook 200 meals for the unhoused and the precariously housed in the DTES. $50 will help provide 10 meals for people in the DTES $200 will help purchase ingredients for 1 day of the program $500 will help cover the cost of staffing for 1 day of the program $1000 will help cover the cost of 1 day of the entire program

You can support with a one-time donation, or by becoming a monthly donor. To donate, visit our website or email emiko@powellstreetfestival.com for e-transfer details. Cheques can be mailed to Powell Street Festival Society, Suite 410 – 111 W. Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4 今こそ、コミュニティの強さ、結束力、そして思いやりを示し、助けを必要としている人々を支援する時です。

現在から2020年8月1日までの間にテレソンを通して集められたすべての資金は、新しいプログラムパウエル祭コミュニティキッチンの発足に充てられます。2020年の秋から、地域の4人の住民が雇用され、ダウンタウンイーストサイドで、住居のない人々と安定した住居のない人々のために200の食事を調理します。 50ドルはダウンタウンイーストサイドの人々に10食を提供するのに役立ちます。 200ドルは、プログラムの1日分の食材を購入するのに役立ちます。 500ドルは、プログラムの1日分の人件費をカバーするのに役立ちます。 1000ドルは、プログラム全体の1日分の費用を賄うのに役立ちます。

1度のみ、もしくは月々の寄付を通してご支援いただけます。寄付をするには、ウェブサイトをご覧になるか、emiko@powellstreetfestival.comにメールをして、e-transferの詳細をお問い合わせください。また、パウエル祭協会に直接チェックを郵送していただくこともできます。住所はこちらです：Powell Street Festival Society, Suite 410 – 111 W. Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4

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McGregor-Verdejo Duo

Live stream!!

Teleth on Artists 注目アーティスト Throughout the Telethon, we will be showcasing these featured artists. Does a particular artist catch your eye? Visit our website to find program schedule updates and links to artists’ work. テレソンではフィーチャーアーティスト達がパフォーマンスをします。気になるアーティストはいますか？ウェブサイトでは最新のプログラムスケジュールやアーティストの作品へのリンクがチェックできます。 McGregor-Verdejo Duo マックグレガー・ヴェルデホデュオ The McGregor-Verdejo Duo was formed in 2016 by flutist Mark Takeshi McGregor and guitarist Adrian Verdejo. The Duo’s dedication to fostering new music has resulted in the premieres of many new works by Canadian and international composers. The McGregor-Verdejo Duo’s 2020 activities include their first residency at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras in Morelia, Mexico, and performances for the Strata Festival in Saskatoon and the Regina Classical Guitar Society.

マックグレガー・ヴェルデホデュオは、フルート演者のマーク・タケシ・マックグレガーとギタリストのエイドリアン・ヴェルデホによって2016年に結成されました。彼らは新しい音楽の育成に力を注いでおり、カナダ国内外の作曲家による多くの作品の初演を実現してきました。 2020年の活動としては、メキシコのモレリアにあるセントロメキシカーノパララムジカイラスアルテスソノラスでの初めてのレジデンシー、サスカトゥーンのストラタフェスティバルとレジーナクラシックギター協会の公演などがあります。

Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre 日系文化センター・博物館 The Nikkei National Museum has digitized 56 historical home movies from its moving image collection. These short clips portray the personal and public lives of Japanese Canadians from the 1920s to the 1970s on the west coast, throughout Canada, and abroad. This presentation provides a unique perspective on Canadian history highlighting generations of the Japanese Canadian community and their resilience in a time of discrimination. Financial support from Library and Archives Canada and the NNMCC Auxiliary.

国立日系博物館は、動画コレクションから56の歴史的なホームムービーをデジタル化しました。これらの短編ホームムービーは、1920年代から1970年代にかけての西海岸、カナダ国内外の日系カナダ人の私生活および公共生活を描写します。数世にわたる日系カナダ人コミュニティが差別に苦しんだ時代にも打たれ強く生きた様子が描かれており、カナダの歴史をユニークな視点から捉えます。 Library and Archives CanadaおよびNNMCC Auxiliary後援。

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The Deep Cove

Shion Skye Carter

The Deep Cove ザ・ディープコーブ The Deep Cove is excited to premiere their music video for “Pills” at Powell Street Festival! This dream-like video is animated by beloved Tokyo-based artist, Ryo Inoue, known for his animated series on NHK, Bijutune!. The Deep Cove is

Kisyuu & Shion: Calligraphy & Dance 姫州＆詩音：書道＆ダンス Kisyuu’s brush movement and Shion’s body movement will correspond to each other and synchronize to create the art piece together. A close-up of Kisyuu’s brush movement will be captured and projected on the screen while Shion is dancing with the projected calligraphy art as a background. Later Kisyuu will move on to the bigger canvas to create a bigger piece. Kisyuu is a Japanese calligrapher, born and raised in Japan. Her brush with sumi-ink dances on paper to create shapes and letters to express herself and communicate with the others. She believes in the power of art which creates peace both inner and outer. Shion Skye Carter is a performing artist originally from Tajimi, Japan, and based in Vancouver. Shion’s own choreographic projects are influenced by her personal ethnographic history and merge her interests in other creative disciplines with physical performance. Her new solo work is called Residuals (住み・墨). 姫州の筆の動きと詩音の身体の動きが一致し、同期してアート作品を作ります。姫州の筆の動きをクローズアップで撮影してスクリーンに映し出し、それを背景に詩音が踊ります。その後、姫州はより大きなキャンバス上で、より大きな作品を作ります。姫州は、日本で生まれ育った日本人の書道家です。紙の上を墨で踊る彼女の筆は、自己表現の方法でありながら、他とコミュニケーションするための手段でもあります。彼女は身体の内と外の両方に平和を生み出す芸術の力を信じています。詩音・スカイ・カーターは、日本の多治見出身で、バンクーバーを拠点に活動するアーティストです。詩音自身の振付プロジェクトは、自身のな民俗的歴史に影響を受けており、身体的なパフォーマンスを他の創造的な分野と融合させます。新作ソロ作品はResiduals（住み・墨）です。

an art-pop band led by multi-disciplinary artist Leanne Dunic. “Pills” is the first song off their latest release, The Gift: A Story and Music. www.thedeepcove.com ザ・ディープコーブは、パウエル祭で「ピル」のミュージックビデオをプレミア公開することを楽しみにしています。この夢のようなビデオは、NHKのアニメ番組「びじゅチューン！」で知られる東京を拠点とするアーティスト、井上涼によってアニメーション化されました。ザ・ディープコーブは、様々な分野を手掛けるアーティストのリアン・デゥニックが率いるアートポップバンドです。「ピル」は、最新リリースの The Gift：A Story and Music に収録されている最初の曲です。www.thedeepcove.com Wind in the Pines by Aretha Aoki and Ryan MacDonald アレサ・アオキとライアン・マクドナルドによるウィンド・イン・ザ・パインズ This video of Wind in the Pines is an edited version of a 60min live performance at KCAI Crossroads Gallery in Kansas City, MO on October 25 & 26, 2019. Wind in the Pines weaves memoir, Noh theater, digital animation, sound and dancing to create an immersive excavation of a mysterious family past. Centering around Aretha Aoki’s Japanese family history during World War II, Wind in the Pines attempts to make the past feel present, despite language barriers, geographical and cultural distances, and the imperfection of memory. Multiple mediums, references and images create a space where history, fiction, imagination and embodiment can co-exist. ビデオ作品「ウィンド・イン・ザ・パイン」は、2019年10月25日と26 日、ミズーリ州カンザスシティのKCAIクロスロードギャラリーで公演されたの60分のライブパフォーマンスを編集したものです。回想録、能、デジタルアニメーション、サウンド、そしてダンスがミステリアスな家族の過去を発掘し、オーディエンスを引き込みます。第二次世界大戦中のアレサ・アオキの家族が日本で体験した歴史を中心に、ウィンド・イン・ザ・パインは、言語の壁、地理的および文化的な距離、記憶の不完全さを超えて、過去を現在に呼び起こします。複数の媒体、参考資料、画像を通じて、歴史、フィクション、想像力、および肉体的経験が共存できる空間を作り出します。

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Wind in the Pines

The Mending Circle

The Mending Circle Carolyn Nakagawa and Laura Fukumoto ザ・メンディングサークルキャロリン・ナカガワとローラ・フクモト Carolyn Nakagawa and Laura Fukumoto host an intimate evening in the home of Muriel Kitagawa in 1940s Vancouver to knit socks for Canadian soldiers overseas. Conversations weave through the complications of an enduring history, and the frustrations of maintaining connection across time and displacement. Carolyn Nakagawa is a poet, playwright, and cultural organizer whose practice is deeply informed by history and her work at the Nikkei National Museum. She is currently developing a musical titled The New Canadians. Laura Fukumoto is a writer and designer. Her debut writing and directing project, Where the Quiet Queers Are, was honourably mentioned for two awards at the Vancouver Fringe 2019. Both graduates of UBC, the Mending Circle is their first collaboration. キャロリン・ナカガワとローラ・フクモトは、1940年代バンクーバーのムリエル・キタガワ家を設定とし、海外に駐屯するカナダ人兵士のために靴下を編みます。会話は、絶え間ない歴史の複雑さと、過ぎてゆく時間や強制収容の中で人とのつながりを保つ難しさを描きます。キャロリン・ナカガワは詩人、劇作家、そして文化イベントのオーガナイザーであり、その実践は歴史と国立日系博物館での仕事の経験に深く根ざしています。彼女は現在、The New Canadiansというタイトルのミュージカルを制作しています。ローラ・フクモトはライター兼デザイナーです。彼女のデビュー作品、および監督プロジェクトであるWhere Quiet Queers Are は、Vancouver Fringe 2019で二つの賞を受賞し、高く評価されました。二人ともUBCの卒業生で、ザ・メンディングサークルが、初めてのコラボレーション作品となりました。

De Couto/Say/Arai Organ Trio デ・クト／セイ／アライ・オルガントリオ The de Couto/Say/Arai Organ Trio is a Vancouver ensemble led by Jason de Couto on Hammond B3 organ and features local jazz legends Dave Say on saxophone and Bernie Arai on drums. All three members are active and integral musicians in the local music scene and work in a variety of ensembles as leaders and sidemen. They have come together to form a unique and dynamic sound rarely heard in Vancouver, featuring the mighty Hammond Organ. The group plays a mix of jazz, funk, pop, Latin, and blues music, with influences ranging from Jimmy Smith, and Jimmy McGriff, to Larry Goldings and Sam Yahel. デ・クト／セイ／アライ・オルガントリオは、ハモンドB3奏者のジェイソン・デ・クトを筆頭に、ローカルの有名ジャズ・ミュージシャンであるデイブ・セイのサックス、バーニー・アライのドラムをフィーチャーしたバンクーバーのアンサンブルです。メンバーはそれぞれバンクーバーの音楽シーンで活躍しており、普段は様々なアンサンブルで主奏者として、またサイドメンバーとして演奏しています。パウエル祭では3人が集結し、バンクーバーでは滅多に聴くことのできない、ハモンドオルガンをフィーチャーしたユニークでダイナミックな音楽を作り出します。ジミー・スミス、ジミー・マクグリフ、ラリー・ゴールディングス、サム・ヤヘルに影響を受け、ジャズ、ファンク、ポップス、ラテン、ブルースを組み合わせた演目となっています。

Jason de Couto

Dave Say

Bernie Arai

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Clala Dance Project

Emergency!! – Clala Dance Project 緊急！！-クララダンスプロジェクト Emergency!! is a comical piece illustrating the frustration, impatience and hopelessness everyone must have experienced at least once in their lifetime by rushing to the bathroom — Only to find it occupied!! Dancers take you through dreams, memories, and hallucinations of their anxious experiences in public bathrooms. Recently adored by a variety of audiences at Dancing on the Edge (2019) and at Open Stage, it is a perfect mix of theatre and dance topped with light comedy. Clala Dance Project was co-founded in 2016 by Chihiro Nukuto and Tomoyo Yamada, both graduates from Mukogawa Women's University in Hyogo, Japan. Following Tomoyo's relocation to Vancouver Canada, the project-based collective is currently run by dancers Charlotte Telfer-Wan, Ana Daria Vieru and Tomoyo Yamada. Clala creates work shedding light on cultural identities and identity politics. Their works have been presented in festivals such as REVERBdance Festival (New York), Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver), and Open Stage at The Dance Centre (Vancouver). Choreographer: Tomoyo Yamada Dancers: Jen Aoki, Kestrel Paton, Tomoyo Yamada, Charlotte Telfer-Wan Music by: Julian Telfer-Wan 緊急！！は誰もが一生のうちに一度は経験するであろう、トイレに急いで駆け込もうとしたらすでに誰かが入っていた、というような状況で感じる欲求不満、焦り、絶望感を描いたコミカルな作品です。ダンサーはオーディエンスを、公衆トイレでの不安な体験を夢、思い出、幻覚で表現して導きます。ライトコメディーの要素が加わった演劇とダンスの完璧なミックス作品です。最近では、Dancing on the Edge（2019）とOpen Stageでさまざまなオーディエンスに親しまれています。クララダンスプロジェクトは、2016年に兵庫県の武庫川女子大学を卒業したチヒロ・ナツトとトモヨ・ヤマダによって共同設立されました。プロジェクトベースの団体で、トモヨがカナダのバンクーバーに移転した後、現在はダンサーのシャーロット・テルファー・ワン、アナ・ダリア・ヴィール、トモヨ・ヤマダによって運営されています。クララは、文化的アイデンティティとアイデンティティ政治に焦点を当てた作品を制作します。彼らの作品は、リバーブダンスフェスティバル（ニューヨーク）、ダンシングオンザエッジ（バンクーバー）、ザ・ダンスセンターのオープンステージ（バンクーバー）など数々のフェスティバルで公演されてきました。振付師：トモヨ・ヤマダダンサー：ジェン・アオキ、ケストレル・ペイトン、トモヨ・ヤマダ、シャーロット・テルファー・ワン音楽：ジュリアン・テルファー・ワン

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Kaya Kurz

Kaya Kurz カヤ・クルズ Kaya is a vocalist and songwriter based in Burnaby, BC with a Bachelor of Music in Jazz from Capilano University. As a queer woman of colour, she values diversity and representation, and strives to create inclusive spaces in the Vancouver music scene. Kaya will be joining the de Couto/Say/Arai Organ Trio for this Telethon showcase. Kayaは、バーナビーに拠点を置くボーカリスト兼ソングライターです。キャピラノ大学でジャズ専攻で音楽学士を取得しました。有色クィア女性として多様性を重視し、バンクーバーの音楽シーンに様々なアイデンティティのアーティストが受け入れられ活躍できるよう取り組んでいます。テレソンでは、Couto/Say/Arai Organ Trioと一緒に演奏します。 Banana Bread バナナ・ブレッド Banana Bread is a Pop / R&B choral group comprised of 3 first generation Japanese Canadians. Now residing in Vancouver, this Japanese multi-instrumental group combines English and Japanese lyrics with a touch of ukulele sound. バナナ・ブレッドは、バンクーバーに住む4人の日本人によるポップスとR&Bの合唱バンドです。ウクレレを含む多様な楽器を使用します。3部からなる美しいハーモニーは、まるでバナナ・ブレッドの材料を完璧に混ぜ合わせて焼き上げたような仕上がりです。リーダーは、バンクーバーのプロのギタリスト、ユージ・ナカジマで、リード・シンガーは、IVAの認定を受けたボイス・トレーナーのコウ・ナカムラです。

Banana Bread

360 Riot Walk

360 Riot Walk by Henry Tsang 360 ライオット・ウォーク 360 Riot Walk is an interactive walking tour of the 1907 AntiAsian Riots in Vancouver that traces the history and route of the mob that attacked the Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities following the demonstration and parade organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League in Vancouver. Participants are brought into the social and political environment of the time where racialized communities were targeted through legislated as well as physical acts of exclusion and violence. The soundtrack is available in four languages of the local residents of the period: English, Cantonese, Japanese and Punjabi. Henry Tsang’s projects explore the spatial politics of history, language, community, food and cultural translation in relationship to place. His artworks employ video, photography, language, interactive media, food and convivial events in the form of gallery exhibitions, public art, pop-up street food offerings, curated dinners and more. Henry teaches at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. 360 ライオット・ウォークは1907年のバンクーバーの反アジア暴動に関するインタラクティブなウォーキングツアーで、バンクーバーのアジア排斥同盟が主催したデモとパレードに続いて、中国系カナダ人と日系カナダ人のコミュニティを襲った暴徒の歴史とルーツをたどります。オーディエンスは、特定の人種コミュニティが法律、物理的な排除および暴力を通じて、標的にされた時代の社会的および政治的背景について学びます。サウンドトラックは、当時、地元の住民が使っていた4つの言語である英語、広東語、日本語、パンジャブ語で提供されています。ヘンリー・サンのプロジェクトは、地域の歴史、言語、コミュニティ、食べ物、文化的翻訳における空間的な政治作用を探求します。彼の作品には、ビデオ、写真、言語、インタラクティブメディア、食べ物、ギャラリー展示、パブリックアート、ポップアップストリートフードの提供、キュレーションディナーなどが含まれます。ヘンリーは、エミリーカー美術大学で講師をしています。

The Spirit of Nihonmachi by Greg Masuda グレッグ・マスダ「日本町の魂」（スピリット・オブ・ニホンマチ） The Spirit of Nihonmachi shows the Powell Street Festival from a perspective not often considered: that of the residents of the community in which it takes place. This documentary follows the festival experience of two of its Downtown Eastside volunteers who answer the question, “What is it that brings you back to the festival every year?” Segments of this documentary will be shown throughout the Telethon, providing a reminder of the festival’s magic and ability to connect and uplift communities. Nikkei filmmaker Greg Masuda was commissioned to create this short film for the festival’s 35th anniversary. He is a visual storyteller interpreting real-life stories through immersion in the worlds of his subjects, striving to connect his audience through genuine experiences. Greg’s approach to storytelling invokes emotional responses and inspires reflection on topics that affect the human, and society’s, condition. ドキュメンタリー「日本町の魂」は、パウエル祭を、会場となるコミュニティの住民という普段意識されない視点から捉え直す試みです。「どうして毎年このお祭りに参加するのか」という問いかけに答えた二人のダウンタウンイーストサイドのボランティアに注目し、二人のパウエル祭の体験を描きます。ドキュメンタリーの一部がテレソン期間中に公開されます。それを観ると、パウエル祭の持っている、コミュニティの繋がりを生み出す力を再確認することができるはずです。日系映画監督グレッグ・マスダは、第35回パウエル祭の際にこのショート作品を作ることを委託されました。マスダ氏は、映画の対象となる人々の世界に自ら身を浸すことで彼らの経験を解釈し、それを映画を通じて伝えることで観客との関係性を創造する映像ストーリーテラーです。このアプローチは感情的な反応を呼び起こし、人間や社会に深く関わる事がらについて振り返るきっかけを与えてくれます。

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Jeff Chiba Stearns ジェフ・チバ・スターンズ Jeff Chiba Stearns is an Emmy® nominated animation and documentary filmmaker. He is also an accomplished author and illustrator. Born in Kelowna, BC of Japanese and European ancestry, Jeff’s work often focuses on themes of multi-ethnic identity. His feature length documentary, One Big Hapa Family (2010) became the quintessential film on mixed Japanese Canadian identity. Jeff wrote and illustrated his first children’s book, Mixed Critters, in 2018 and just released his second children’s book, Nori and His Delicious Dreams, featuring a mixed Japanese Canadian main character. Jeff is currently working on his first graphic novel, an intergenerational Japanese Canadian story entitled On Being Yukiko , with Japanese Canadian artist Lillian Michiko Blakey. For the Powell Street Festival Telethon, Jeff will be presenting his latest work, a reading of Nori and His Delicious Dreams, and a drawing lesson on how he created his ‘hapanimation’ style. ジェフ・チバ・スターンズは、エミー賞へのノミネート経験があるアニメーションおよびドキュメンタリー映画製作者です。また、優れた作家およびイラストレーターでもあります。日系とヨーロッパ系の両親のもとにブリティッシュコロンビア州ケローナで生まれたジェフの作品は、多民族アイデンティティに焦点を当てています。長編ドキュメンタリー「ワン・ビッグ・ハパファミリー（2010）」は、日系カナダ人の多重なアイデンティティに関する代表的な映画となりました。ジェフは2018年に初めて子供向けの本「ミックスド・クリッターズ」を書いて、 2冊目の子供向けの本「ノリとおいしい夢」をリリースしました。ジェフは現在、彼の最初のグラフィックノベルである日系カナダ人の物語「On Being Yukiko」を日系カナダ人アーティスト、リリアン・ミチコ・ブレイキーと共同で取り組んでいます。パウエル祭テレソンでは、ジェフの最新作品である「ノリとおいしい夢」の朗読、近日公開のグラフィックノベルの先行公開、および「ハパニメーション」スタイルの作成方法に関する描画レッスンを行います。

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Nori and His Delicious Dreams

Community Directory コミュニティ名鑑

For many, the festival is an important networking and revenue generating opportunity. Check out this impressive listing of Japanese Canadian artists, artisans, community groups and purveyors of Japanese art, culture and cuisine. 多くの人々にとって、パウエル祭は重要なネットワークを広げ、収益を得る機会です。日系カナダ人アーティスト、職人、コミュニティグループ、日本の芸術、文化、飲食の提供者の素晴らしいリストをご覧ください。

Community Food コミュニティフード

The following Japanese Canadian community groups typically run food booths at the Powell Street Festival as a major fundraising activity. Please be sure to support these groups throughout the year! 以下の日系カナダ人コミュニティグループは、通年、主な運営資金調達のために、パウエル祭でフードブースを運営しています。これらのグループを一年を通してサポートしてください！

Japanese Canadian Citizen’s Association グレーター・バンクーバー日系カナダ市民協会 www.gvjcca.org The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA) is a non-profit organization that builds communities, and advocates for social justice primarily for people in Canada of Japanese heritage, and their families. All proceeds go to support the work of our non-profit society and to publish The Bulletin Geppo monthly magazine. グレーター・バンクーバー日系カナダ市民協会（GVJCCA）は、コミュニティづくりをする非営利組織で、主に日系カナダ人とその家族の社会的正義を提唱しています。すべての収益は、非営利団体の活動をサポートし、The Bulletin・げっぽうの月刊誌を発行するために使われます。

Otowa Ryu Dance Group 音羽流日本舞踊 The Otowa Ryu Dance Group has been participating at the Powell Street Festival both performing, and running a food booth since its inception. The group consists of dancers of all ages. 音羽流舞踊団は、第一回パウエル祭から、パフォーマンスとフードブース運営の両方で参加しています。幅広い年齢のダンサーで構成されたグループです。 Tenrikyo Yonomotokai 天理教よのもと会 Tenrikyo teaches and promotes joyous life, which is cultivated through acts of charity and mindfulness called hinokishin. 天理教は、ひのきしんと呼ばれるマインドフルネスと慈善活動によって育まれた喜びに満ちた人生を教え、推進しています。

Vancouver Buddhist Temple バンクーバー仏教会 www.vancouverbuddhisttemple.com Vancouver Buddhist Temple is the first Buddhist temple in Canada, established in 1904. We humbly strive to lead a life of gratitude and invite others to join in the joy. バンクーバー仏教会は1904年に設立されたカナダで最初の仏教寺院です。私たちは感謝する人生を送り、他の人々と喜びを分かち合えるよう、謙虚ながらにも努めています。 Vancouver Japanese Language School (VJLS) バンクーバー日本語学校並びに日系人会館 vjls-jh.com The VJLS-JH has been participating in the Powell Street Festival as both a Community Booth and Food Booth. As a non-profit, community-based and driven organization, they are committed to education, culture and community. バンクーバー日本語学校並びに日系人会館はコミュニティーと飲食ブースの両方としてパウエル祭に参加しています。彼らは非営利の、コミュニティベースで運営されている組織で、教育、文化、コミュニティの橋渡しに携わっています。

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Konko Church of Vancouver 金光教会 www.konkofaith.org The Konko Faith was born within the tradition of Shinto, however its doctrines are original and independent. The Konko Faith teaches the eternal life of the Universe. 金光教は神道の伝統の中で生まれましたが、その教義は独創的で独立しています。金光教は宇宙は不死であることを教えています。

Tonari Gumi 隣組 tonarigumi.ca Tonari Gumi has been involved in the Powell Street Festival since its inception. We are a non-profit charity that has served the needs of the Japanese Canadian community for over 45 years. Volunteers have been and continue to be critical to provide our programs and services, largely for senior citizens. 隣組は、パウエル祭の創設以来関わってきました。45年以上にわたって日系カナダ人コミュニティのニーズに応えてきた非営利の慈善団体です。主に高齢者向けのプログラムとサービスは、長年ボランティアの大きな協力で運営されています。

Food 飲食

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In addition to our community food groups, we feature many commercial food vendors! Please be sure to support these local groups! コミュニティフードグループに加えて、数々の飲食店を紹介します！これらのローカルグループをサポートしてください！

Artisan Sakemaker アーティザン酒メーカー artisansakemaker.com

Established in 2007 on Granville Island, Artisan SakeMaker is known as “Canada’s first local producer of fresh premium sake.” Specializing in small-batch, handmade junmai sake and sake kasu products. Sake kasu is soy, gluten and salt free. Plus it’s vegan!! Our products include icecream (matcha, ginger & raisin), apple juice, hot sauce and salad dressing. アーティザン酒メーカーは、2007年よりグランビルアイランドを拠点として「カナダ初のローカル高級酒造店」を営んでいます。手作りの純米酒と酒粕を使った商品を少量ずつ販売しています。当店の酒粕には大豆、グルテン、塩が含まれていません。そしてビーガンです！！商品として、アイスクリーム（抹茶、生姜、レーズン）、りんごジュース、ホットソース、ドレッシングがあります。

Baker & Table Café www.bakerandtablecafe.com

Squid takoyaki, octopus takoyaki. いかたこ焼き、たこ焼き

Ichiyo’s Matcha Bar いちよう茶屋 www.ichiyos.com

ICHIYO’S Matcha Bar was born out of a sincere love and healthy respect for Japanese tea culture, as well as all things matcha! Literally meaning “one leaf” in Japanese, ICHIYO’S captures the cultural origins of matcha as well as the essence of tea in a single word. We believe in uncompromising quality and the continual pursuit of excellence in what we offer. いちよう茶屋は日本茶文化と抹茶への敬愛から生まれたお店です。「一枚の葉」という言葉通り、いちよう（一葉）は抹茶の起源とお茶の本質を一言で表現しています。妥協のないクオリティと最高の味を追求します。

Baker & Table Café is the only Japanese peanut-free bakery JAPADOG ジャパドッグ in Vancouver. We offer fresh, handmade, from scratch mochi www.japadog.com melonpans, breads & cakes. We use the best LOCAL natural We specialize in Japanese-style hot dogs called “JAPADOG” products! such as the terimayo that comes with teriyaki sauce, Baker & Table Café は、バンクーバーで唯一のピーナッツ無使用ベ Japanese mayo, and seaweed on top of a regular hot dog. ーカリーです。全て手作りで、作り立ての餅メロンパン、その他パン、 We have a bunch of JAPADOGS!! ケーキを販売します。商品には地元の自然素材を使用しています。「ジャパドッグ」は和風ホットドッグの専門店です。ホットドッグに照り焼きソース、日本のマヨネーズ、そして海苔のかかった「テリマヨ」 Coconama Chocolate ココナマチョコレートのほか、様々なジャパドッグを取り揃えています。

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Local handmade Japanese flavored ganache type chocolate. It is Japanese nama chocolate. The flavours are matcha, yuzu, mango, coffee, dark etc. ローカルで手作りの和風ガナッシュ系チョコレート。日本の生チョコです。抹茶、ゆず、マンゴ、コーヒー、ダーク味があります。

Damien’s Belgian Waffles ダミアンズベルギーワッフル www.damienswaffles.ca

We sell Liege Belgian waffles (original, maple, cinnamon, matcha, caramel, yuzu, cranberry, apple, dark/milk/white chocolate, banana chocochips, black sesame, savoury) made from scratch using fine ingredients by Philippe. No preservatives, no oil, egg free, real butter, pearl sugar and chocolate from Belgium. 手作りでフィリピンの最高食材を使用したリエージェ・ベルギーワッフル（オリジナル、メープル、シナモン、抹茶、キャラメル、ゆず、クランベリー、りんご、ダーク／ミルク／ホワイトチョコレート、バナナチョコチップ、黒ごま、塩味）。保存料、オイル、卵は使わず、本物のバター、パールシュガー、そしてベルギー産チョコレートを使用します。

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Japanese Crepe Sasuke クレープサスケ www.facebook.com/Japanese-Crepe-SasukeRichmond-Night-Market-106974516058610

Tokyo-style Japanese crepes that you will never regret. 東京スタイルのクレープサスケは、あなたを決して後悔させま

せん。

Osaka Ball 大阪ボール osakaball.com/wp

Osaka Balls are packed with flavour. They’re satisfying but not greasy or overly filling. Takoyaki are so popular in Japan. At any outdoor gathering you fill find takoyaki vendors, as common as the hot dog stand here in North America. Traditionally, takoyaki is filled with octopus but we use shrimp and scallop. 大阪ボールは味の宝庫です。満足感がありながら、脂っこくなく胃に負担がありません。日本では、たこ焼きの屋台は北米でいうホットドックスタンドに匹敵するほどポピュラーです。伝統的なたこ焼きとは違い、大阪ボールではエビや帆立を使用します。

Potato San ポテトさん www.instagram.com/thepotatosan

Japanese style spiral shaped potato – local yellow potato deep fried in Japanese tempura batter, finished with misobased aoli, furikake, aonori (Japanese seasonings). 和風のスパイラルポテト。地元の黄色いじゃがいもに天ぷらの衣で揚げ、味噌ベースのソースと、ふりかけと青のりをかけます。

Republica Coffee Roasters リパブリカ・コーヒー・ロースターズ www.republicaroasters.com

Coffee, iced coffee, lattes, iced lattes, organic agave syrup, cold brew, roasted coffee beans, and t-shirts. コーヒー、アイスコーヒー、多種類のラテとアイスラテ、有機アガベシロップ、水出しコーヒー、焙煎コーヒー豆、オリジナルTシャツ

Taka Catering Inc benkeiramen.ca

Best ramen catering in Canada. Traditional Menu, Tokyo Shoyu, negishio tonkotsu, kokumiso, spicy miso. You must try it!! カナダで一番のラーメンのケータリングビジネス。東京しょうゆ、ネギ塩とんこつ、コク味噌、辛味噌。是非お試しあれ！

Tea Lani ティー・ラニ www.facebook.com/pages/category/Food--Beverage/Tea-Lani-360061730689240/

Organic loose leaf tea made in Vancouver. メイド・イン・バンクーバーのオーガニックお茶っ葉専門店。

Our product is a traditional stall of Japan. Taste, skill, passion, and costumes, are reproduce faithfully, and combined with a new era. A fun-to-look-at, delicious-to-eat, touch on culture makes everyone smile. 日本の伝統的な屋台を商品としています。新しい時代の中で、昔ながらの味、技術、情熱、衣装を再現します。見ても良し、味も良し、日本文化も味わえて、全ての人を笑顔にします。

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Our mission is to bring tasteful Japanese food for Vancouverites! 私たちのミッションは、美味しい日本料理をバンクーバーの皆さんに提供することです！

Vankoji Foods バン麹フーズ www.vankoji.com

Japanese traditional natural pro-biotic seasoning products. shio-koji,shoyu-koji and Koji seasonings. 日本の伝統的な自然プロバイオティックスの調味料。塩麹、醤油麹、麹の調味料があります。

Vegan Pudding And Co www.veganpuddingco.com

We’re the one and only vegan custard pudding store. Our custard pudding is certified organic, vegan, gluten free, nut free, soy free and white sugar free. We source local ingredients

as much as possible. Our cups and packaging are BPA free and compostable. 世界で唯一最高のビーガンプリンのお店です。当店のプリンは、オーガニック且つビーガンで、グルテン、ナッツ、大豆、白糖は無使用。できる限りローカル素材を使用します。プリンのカップとパッケージは、BPAフリーでコンポースタブルです。

Wak Wak Burger www.facebook.com/wakwakburgerdesu

We feature Japanese-style hamburgers, providing unique, satisfying, and enjoyable combinations of Japanese-style toppings, seasoning, spices, with tasty hamburger options. We promote affordable and trendy hamburgers and other menu options, and have gained popularity among many Vancouverites and lunch goers. In fact, our brand has won multiple food truck awards and have been featured in different articles 和風のトッピング、調味料、スパイスを使った、ユニークで楽しく満足感のある和風ハンバーガー。お手軽でトレンディなハンバーガーやその他のメニューで、バンクーバーではランチのオプションとして人気です。これまでフードトラックの賞を複数受賞し、様々な記事で紹介されました。

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Teriyaki Boys 照り焼きボーイズ www.teriyaki-boys-squamish.com

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There are many community groups involved with the festival! Please support these Japanese Canadian and DTES organizations doing important work within the community. パウエル祭には多くのコミュニティグループが関わっています。コミュニティ内で重要な仕事をしているこれらの日系カナダ人および DTES組織をサポートしてください。 Canadian College of Shiatsu Therapy カナダ指圧カレッジ www.shiatsuvancouver.ca We teach and follow the traditional form of shiatsu which was developed by the founder of shiatsu. 私たちは指圧の創設者が作り上げてきた伝統的な指圧に従い、教えています。 Consulate General of Japan 日本領事館 www.vancouver.ca.emb-japan.go.jp Opened in 1889 as Japan’s first government office in Canada,

the Japanese Consulate serves BC and the Yukon. Japan’s first diplomatic mission opened in Ottawa in 1928, and Canada opened its first legation in Tokyo in 1929. 1889年に、カナダで最初の日本政府の事務所として設立された日本領事館はB.C州とユーコンエリア受け持っています。1928年に、最初の日本外交使節団がオタワで開かれ、1929年にカナダが東京で最初の公使館を開設しました。 Food Stash Foundation フードスタッシュ・ファウンデーション www.foodstash.ca Food Stash is a non-profit that focuses on rescuing edible food that would otherwise go to landfill and redirecting it to those who suffer from food insecurity. We rescued and redistributed over 36,000 lbs of food in December to our partner charities, the majority of which are located in the DTES such as Powell St. Getaway, Whole Way House, UGM, La Boussole and the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. フードスタッシュは、ごみ処理場に行く食用食品を救出し、食糧不安に苦しむ人々に届ける非営利団体です。12月には、 36,000ポンドを超える食品を救出し、パートナーの慈善団体に再配布しました。その大部分は、Powell St Getaway、ホールウェイハウス、UGM、La Boussole、ダウンタウンイーストサイドウィメンズセンターなどの DTESにあります。 Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association グレーター・バンクーバー日系カナダ市民協会 www.gvjcca.org The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA) is a non-profit organization representing the Japanese Canadian community in Vancouver and the surrounding area. Their Human Rights Committee works with and supports the Japanese Canadian community, other human rights groups, and ethno-cultural organizations to promote human rights, and combat racism and discrimination, locally and internationally. グレーターバンクーバー日系カナダ市民協会（GVJCCA）は、バンクーバーとその周辺の日系カナダ人コミュニティを代表する非営利団体です。彼らの人権委員会は、国内外で日系カナダ人コミュニティ、その他の人権団体、民族文化団体と協力して支援し、人権を推進し、人種差別や差別と闘っています。

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Hogan’s Alley Society ホーガン・アレー・ワーキング・グループ www.hogansalleysociety.org The Hogan’s Alley Society has been working with the City of Vancouver to ensure that the redevelopment of the Hogan’s Alley block represents the legacy of Strathcona’s Black community, which was displaced by the construction of the viaducts. ホーガン・アレー・ワーキング・グループはバンクーバー市と協力して、ホーガン・アレーブロックの再開発が、高架橋の建設により立ち退きを強いられたストラスコナズブラックコミュニティの歴史の象徴となるよう努めています。

Japanese Community Volunteers Association (Tonari Gumi)隣組 tonarigumi.ca The Japanese Community Volunteers Association (Tonari Gumi), is a non-profit charity focused on providing programs and services for seniors within the Japanese Canadian community in the Lower Mainland. 隣組は、バンクーバー周辺の日系カナダ人コミュニティ内の高齢者にプログラムやサービスを提供することに焦点を当てた非営利の慈善団体です。 JETAABC JETプログラム同窓会 www.jetaabc.ca JETAABC is the British Columbia / Yukon chapter of JETAAInternational, the alumni association for participants of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. All of our members have worked for at least one year in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher, Coordinator for International Relations, or Sports Exchange Advisor. JETAABCは、JETAA-Internationalのブリティッシュコロンビア/ ユーコン支部であり、日本交流教育プログラム参加者のための同窓会です。メンバーは全員、少なくとも1年間日本で語学アシスタント、国際交流員、スポーツ交流アドバイザーとして働いた経験があります。 Landscapes of Injustice ランドスケープ・オブ・インジャスティス www.landscapesofinjustice.com Landscapes of Injustice is a partnership research project that focuses on the dispossession and forced sale of property owned by Japanese Canadians during the 1940s. One of our study sites is the Powell Street area. ランドスケープ・オブ・インジャスティスは、1940年代の日系カナダ人が経験した財産没収と強制収容に焦点を当てたパートナーシップリサーチプロジェクトです。私たちのリサーチエリアのうちの一つが、パウエル街エリアです。

Vancouver Ikebana Association バンクーバーいけばな協会 www.vancouver-ikebana.ca The VIA is an association of members – teachers and students – of five ikebana schools, which are active in the Lower Mainland. We have classes, displays, demonstrations and workshops. The main principle of ikebana is harmony, not only the harmony in dealing the floral materials into one good piece of arrangement, but also harmony in dealing with all sorts of human relationships to fulfil life. VIAは、バンクーバー周辺地域で活動している5つの生け花学校のメンバー（教師と生徒）の協会です。クラス、展示、デモンストレーション、ワークショップをします。生け花の主な原理は調和です。花の素材を1つの良い配置にまとめるときの調和だけでなく、様々な人と触れ合う中での調和が人生を豊かにするでしょう。

Megaphone Magazine メガホン・マガジン www.megaphonemagazine.com Megaphone is a non-profit organization that amplifies marginalized voices and creates meaningful work for people experiencing poverty and homelessness. Megaphone Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese produces a high-quality monthly magazine and annual Hall バンクーバー日本語学校および日系人会館 (Hope in Shadows) calendar that low-income vendors sell vjls-jh.com on the streets of Vancouver and Victoria to earn an income Established in 1906, the Vancouver Japanese Language and build community. School & Japanese Hall (VJLS-JH) is a non-profit, communityメガホンは、取り残された声を増幅し、貧困とホームレスを経験し based and driven organization, committed to education, ている人々に意味のある仕事を生み出す非営利団体です。メガホ culture and community. ンは、低収入の販売者がバンクーバーとビクトリアで路上販売し、 1906年に設立されたバンクーバー日本語学校および日本人会館収入を得てコミュニティーを構築できるよう、質の高いの月刊誌と（VJLS-JH）は、非営利のコミュニティベースの組織であり、教育、年次カレンダー（Hope in Shadows）を作成しています。文化、コミュニティづくりに携わっています。

Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre 日系博物館・文化センター www.nikkeiplace.org Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre’s mission is to honour, preserve, and share Japanese culture and Japanese Canadian history and heritage for a better Canada. 日系博物館と文化センターの使命は、より良いカナダのために日本文化と日系カナダ人の歴史・遺産を尊重し、保存、共有することです。 Nikoniko Home Care ニコニコホームケア www.nikoniko.ca We provide seniors with culturally sensitive home support. Our heartwarming Japanese-speaking staff brings you compassion and smiles by cooking a healthy Japanese meal, exercising, companionship and brain exercise! 文化に配慮した在宅サポートを高齢者に提供します。心温まる日本語を話すスタッフが、健康的な日本料理を作ったり、運動したり、交流したり、脳トレをしたりして、思いやりと笑顔をお届けします。

ACT2endracism Coalition act2endracism.ca ACT2endracism is a coalition of concerned citizens and community groups of Asian descent, who aim to focus on Canadians affected by COVID-19 triggered racism. They have been working on creating and distribution anti-racism resources, which describe how to react to racism and support those affected. ACT2endracismは、 COVID-19によって引き起こされた人種差別の影響を受けたカナダ人に焦点を当てる、アジア系市民とコミュニティグループから成る提携団体です。彼らは、人種差別への反応と、影響を受けた人々をサポートする方法を説明する反人種差別資料の作成と配布に取り組んでいます。詳細については、ウェブサイトをご覧ください：act2endracism.ca/ culture and community. VSA9 – Climate and Nuclear Power Plants VSA9-気候および原子力発電所 VSA9 was established in 2005. They are an organization that aims to keep the peace clause, article 9 of the Japanese constitution. VSA9は2005年に設立されました。日本国憲法の第9条である平和条項を守ることを目的とした団体です

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National Association of Japanese Canadians 全カナダ日系人協会 www.najc.ca To promote and develop a strong Japanese Canadian identity and thereby strengthen local communities and the national organization. To strive for equal rights and liberties for all persons – in particular, the rights of racial and ethnic minorities. 日本人としてのアイデンティティを促進、発展させ、地域社会と国家組織を活性化することを目指します。すべての人、特に人種的および民族的少数派の権利に対する平等の権利と自由のために努力します。

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Crafts クラフト販売 Please be sure to check out and support these wonderful Powell Street Festival crafters and their beautiful handmade products! 素晴らしいパウエル祭のクラフト職人と美しい手作りの製品をぜひチェックして、サポートしてください！

Amrita Designs m.facebook.com/amritadesigns Welcome to Amrita Designs! I make coin cases, pouches, handbags, shawls and dresses with cute funky cotton, linen and bamboo print fabric from all over the world, mostly from Japan. I hope my little pieces make your day happier. アムリタデザインへようこそ！コインケース、ポーチ、ハンドバッグ、ショール、ドレスを、日本を含め世界中から取り寄せたファンキーなコットン、リネン、竹のプリント生地を使って作っています。私の小さな作品があなたの一日を幸せにしてくれることを願っています。 Art Cards by Valerie www.instagram.com/art_cards_valerie Paper folded cards, bookmarks, gift cards, framed art cards, designer chiyogami clips, chiyogami covered notebooks and sketch books, chiyogami covered coasters 折り紙カード、しおり、ギフトカード、額入りアートカード、デザイナー千代紙クリップ、千代紙カバーノートとスケッチブック、千代紙コースター Beads Ya www.beadsya.blogspot.com At Beads Ya, Sachiko Ito, who is the owner and designer, is handmaking each beads jewellery one by one. Her beads jewelries are one of a kind and made with cute and retro images, so you can feel new yet somehow nostalgic. Please enjoy the world created with small, colourful beads. ビーズ屋では、オーナーでありデザイナーでもあるサチコ・イトウが、ジュエリーを一つ一つ手作りしています。彼女のビーズジュエリーはユニークでかわいらしく、レトロなデザインなので、新しいのにどこか懐かしく感じさせます。小さくてカラフルなビーズの世界をお楽しみください。 Beauty Secrets of Japan www.beautysecretsofjapan.com My name is Mami. Beauty secrets of Japan is a small soap making company located in Vancouver, British Colombia. Our natural handmade soaps and bath bombs and oils are made with only high quality organic Japanese ingredients and created in small batches for the best quality assurance. 私の名前はマミです。ビューティー・シークレット・オブ・ジャパンはブリティッシュコロンビアのバンクーバーにある小さな石鹸製造会社です。当社の手作り自然石鹸、入浴剤、オイルは、高品質の有機素材のみを使用し、最高の品質を保証するために量を限定して作っています。

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Capture+ www.capture---plus.com Capture+ (Capture-plus) is a jewelry brand that is made of interesting wire techniques. We make both women’s and men’s beautiful pieces. キャプチャープラスは、変わったワイヤー技術で作られた美しいジュエリーブランドです。女性用と男性用の両方があります。 Cutie x Cutie www.cutiecutie.ca Signature Vancouver tote bags & cute kitten bags are on sale! Suitable for omiyage (souvenir) of Vancouver! All cutie stuff to make Vancouver a bit more cute place! #AdorablyCutie バンクーバーの特製トートバッグとかわいい子猫バッグが発売されました！バンクーバーのおみやげとしてもぴったり！バンクーバーをもう少しかわいい場所にするキューティーグッズが揃っています！#AdorablyCutie ENTEY Greenworks www.instagram.com/entey_greenworks ENTEY Greenworks provides a variety of pots by local ceramic artists and various kind of young trees, plants and moss. These individual plants are grown with extra care by Seiji the gardener. Your everyday living space will transform into something a little bit special. エンテイグリーンワークスは、地元の陶芸家によるさまざまな鉢や、苗木、植物、苔を提供しています。植物は、一つ一つ、庭師のセイジによって細心の注意を払って栽培されています。あなたの日常生活空間が少し特別なものに変わります。 Japanese Fabric Creations SHINO m.facebook.com/Japanesefabriccreations Specializes in Japanese-style handmade fabric objects such as coasters, pouches, placemats, bookmarks and accessories. Original designs handmade by Shinobu Mizukoshi. 和風の手作り生地を使った、コースター、ポーチ、ランチョンマット、しおり、アクセサリーなどを専門としています。シノブ・ミズコシによる手作りオリジナルデザイン。

Minori Takagi www.mylampwork.com Handmade tombodama (lampworked glass beads) and glass jewelry 手作りのトンボ玉、ガラスのアクセサリー

Sleepless Kao-Kaori Kasai www.kaorikasai.com Hi! I’m Sleepless Kao; I am an illustrator and children’s book author. I create my own world of eccentric creatures and personalities, which bloom into the void: gigantic space dotted with tiny, intimate kinships, and spirits bumping into one another. These imaginative elements inspire my prints, cards, and books. こんにちは！私はイラストレーター兼絵本作家のスリープレス・カオです。巨大な空間に花咲く風変わりな生き物と人格を作り出します。そこには小さく親密な家族関係が散りばめられ、魂がぶつかり合います。私の版画、カード、本は、このような想像的な要素にインスピレーションを得ています。 Kazuko Cha Selling authentic kimono material and materials altered/ tailored into tunics, vests, and light jackets intended for casual/everyday wear. 本格的な着物素材を、チュニック、ベスト、カジュアル/日常向けのライトジャケットにリメイクして販売しています。

Meditating Bunny Studio Inc. www.meditatingbunny.com Jeff Chiba Stearns is an Emmy® nominated animation and documentary filmmaker and acclaimed author and illustrator. Through his production company Meditating Bunny Studio Inc., he has published two children’s books, Mixed Critters (2018) and Nori and His Delicious Dreams (2020) and directed and produced the award-winning documentaries, One Big Hapa Family (2010) and Mixed Match (2016). ジェフ・チバ・スターンズは、エミー賞にノミネートされたアニメーションおよびドキュメンタリーの映画製作者であり、著名な作家およびイラストレーターです。彼の制作会社Meditating Bunny Studio Inc.から、2冊の児童書、Mixed Critters（2018）とNori and His Delicious Dreams (2020)を出版し、自身が制作、監修したドキュメンタリー、One Big Hapa Family（2010）とMixed Match（2016 ）は受賞し高く評価されました。

Noriko & Co. Handmade creations made from Japanese fabric for everyday use, and greeting cards for any occasion. Items are made in Burnaby, BC. 普段使いに日本の生地を使った手作り商品、そしていろいろな場面で使えるグリーティングカード。アイテムは、BC州バーナビーで作られています。 Paper For You www.instagram.com/paper_for_you Two paper artists create unique jewellery and accessories with Japanese beautiful paper called washi (和紙) and with

paper-silk cords called mizuhiki (水引). Mizuhiki is a traditional Japanese art form made from a special cord. Everything we make is done by hand (even the tiny origami art!). We are here for connecting people and sharing the joy of life. 和紙とと水引と呼ばれる紐を使って、二人の紙アーティストがユニークなジュエリーとアクセサリーを作ります。水引は、特別な紐で作られた日本の伝統芸術です。制作過程はすべて手作業で行われます（小さな折り紙アートもです！）。ペーパー・フォー・ユーは人々をつなぎ、人生の喜びを分かち合います。 Picchie Zakka www.facebook.com/picchie.zakka Picchie Zakka makes Japanese culture inspired fabric zakka (little things in your everyday life). We believe what is good for you can be good for the earth as well and create these items that support your comfortable and sustainable living using mostly Japanese fabric. Items include: Reusable cotton gauze masks, azuma lunch bags and market bags, azuki eye pillows, and yukata for stuffed bears. Picchie雑貨は、日本文化にインスピレーションを得た生地雑貨を作ります。人にも地球にやさしいものを考え、日本の生地を中心に、快適で持続可能な暮らしをサポートするアイテムを生み出しています。再利用可能な綿のガーゼマスク、あずまのランチバッグとマーケットバッグ、あずきのまくら、クマのぬいぐるみ用の浴衣などを取り扱っています。

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MakeMerri makemerri.com Quirky and cute, yet useful and eco-friendly items handmade by Merri to make you merry! At MakeMerri you will find oneof-a-kind items that will last you for a long time. Such as: cozies for reusable bubble tea cups, reusable cotton pads, and reusable water balloons too! 風変わりでかわいく、便利で環境に優しいMerriの手作りアイテムは、あなたを楽しい気持ちにさせてくれます！MakeMerriでは、リユースできるバブルティーカップ用スリーブ、コットンパッド、水風船など、長持ちするユニークなアイテムを揃えています。

Mom’s Care Natural Handmade Soap www.facebook.com/Moms-Care-Natural-HandmadeSoap-400972800010370/ Some of our soaps are made from Japanese imported ingredients like yomogi, sakura, shikon, yuzu and bamboo charcoal. These products help people who are suffering from dry skin. They can be safely used when bathing babies. 一部の石けんは、よもぎ、さくら、紫根、ゆず、竹炭など、日本からの輸入食材を使用しています。乾燥肌に悩む人におすすめです。赤ちゃんの入浴時にも安心してお使いいただけます。

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Scandinazn www.scandinazn.com Our handmade jewelry and hair accessories are influenced by the bold colours and simplicity of scandinazn (Scandinavian – Japanese) design. We use recycled materials wherever possible, and focus almost exclusively on pieces made with repurposed leather, and more recently, second hand kimono silk. We incorporate painting, marbling, and traditional jewelry making techniques into our process. 私たちの作るジュエリーとヘアアクセサリーは、大胆な色使いとシンプルさが特徴のスカンジナビアや日本のデザインに影響を受けています。可能な限りリサイクル素材を使用しており、ほとんどが革を再利用して作られた商品で、最近では中古の着物シルクに注目しています。絵画、マーブリング、伝統的なジュエリー作りの技術を取り入れています。 Thé Vert Jewellery www.etsy.com/shop/TheVertJewellery

Thé Vert Jewellery features necklaces, earrings and bracelets, built from wood, fabric, glass and semi-precious stones with an organic natural feel utilizing simple clean lines and Japanese influence, which produce an elegant and eye-catching look. Signature pieces include the ribbon tie necklaces, the origami triangle necklaces and the chevron earrings. ThéVert Jewelleryは、オーガニックでナチュラルな感触の木材、布、ガラス、半貴石を使用したネックレス、イヤリング、ブレスレットを取り揃え、エレガントで目を引く作品を生み出します。シンプルですっきりとしたラインのデザインには日本文化を取り入れています。代表作は、リボンネクタイネックレス、折り紙三角ネックレス、シェブロンイヤリングです。 TIEN NEO EAMAS SILVER/GOLDSMITH tienneoeamas.com Tien neo eamas, Singaporean-born silver and goldsmith since 1996. Offering low to mid priced, hand fabricated magical jewellery with men’s, all genders, classical, minimal, everyday and empowering icons. Specialising in wedding rings, men’s rings, heirloom resetting and iconic power pieces. I’ve been part of this fabulous community for over 22 years! シンガポール生まれのティエン・ネオ・エアマスは1996年からシルバーとゴールド職人をしています。メンズ、オールジェンダー、クラシック、ミニマル、日常使い、エンパワーメントアイコン入りなど、手作りのジュエリーを手頃な価格で提供しています。結婚指輪、メンズリング、家宝のリメイク、アイコニックパワーアイテムに特化しており、この素晴らしいコミュニティに22年以上携わっています！ Vancouver Japanese Gardeners Association www.vanjapangardeners.com The Vancouver Japanese Gardeners Association is an independent non-profit organization established in 1959. Our Association consists of professional gardeners and landscapers, aiming to promote Japanese Gardens through construction, maintenance, and education techniques. Our members have built many beautiful Japanese gardens throughout the Lower Mainland and associate with other

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organizations in order to increase our knowledge and expertise in Japanese gardens. バンクーバー日系ガーデナーズ協会は、1959年に設立された独立した非営利団体です。VJGAは、建設、保守、教育技術を通じて日本庭園を促進することを目指し、プロの庭師と造園家で構成されています。メンバーは、Lower Mainlandに多くの美しい日本庭園を造っています。日本庭園の知識と専門知識を向上させるために、他の組織と連携しながら活動しています。 WaQ’s Sushi walterquan.com WaQ’s Sushi and Dim Sum (candles!) plus knitted eggplants and daikon and persimmons! Inedible and not food safe, but fun! キャンドルの寿司と点心！ナス、大根、柿も！食用ではありませんが、楽しいです！ Wren Creation www.facebook.com/wrencreation Handmade pendants and earrings inspired by beautiful Japanese chiyogami papers. 美しい日本の千代紙からインスピレーションを得た手作りのペンダントとイヤリング。 Yoshiko Godo www.instagram.com/yoshikogodo My pottery is mostly handbuilt with organic shapes, texture, and colours. They are functional pieces, simple and minimalistic to enhance the food that is served. 私の陶器は、ほとんどが有機的な形、質感、色で作られています。作品は実用的で、シンプルでミニマルなデザインが料理を際立たせます。

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Marketplace マーケットプレイス

We are forever grateful for the support of our merchants who bring us vibrant Japanese cultural products. Visit their websites to get your fix! 私たちは活気のある日本の文化商品をもたらすベンダーのサポートに常に感謝しています。彼らのウェブサイトにアクセスして、自分のお気に入りを見つけてください！

Sasaki Art Gallery sasakiartgallery.com East meets west in Sasaki clothing and greeting cards, designed by Terry. テリー作：衣服、グリーティングカード Vilku Vilka Crafts vilkuvilka.ca Vancouver-based Latvian lifestyle shop, Latvian Zakka + original handcrafts with both traditional and modern Latvian designs. バンクーバーを拠点とするラトビアのライフスタイルショップ。ラトビアの雑貨、伝統工芸品、オリジナルの手工芸品。 Mikari Decor Company www.facebook.com/kayo.hosaka.7 Mikari is popular for their coordination of Japanese kimono fashion, accessories and original (pearl based) jewelry. In addition, hand-painted fans have been popular since the Marketplace was opened! 従来の真珠ベースのオリジナル．ジュエリーに加えて、着物アレンジ．ファッション、アクセサリーとトータルコーディネートも人気… 手描き扇子も毎回、好評です!

カーフ、足袋、財布、ポーチパックウェストにはどなたにも楽しんでいただける何かがあります。

Siamurai Apparel www.samuraipants.com Siamurai Apparel designs Japanese inspired clothing fusing Thai fabric and Japanese print. They design unique and comfortable clothing such as kimono, noragi, dresses, jackets, beanie hats, samurai pants, and ninja pants. Siamurai Apparelは、タイの生地と和柄を融合させた日本風の服をデザインしています。着物、野良着、ワンピース、ジャケット、ニット帽、サムライパンツ、忍者パンツなど、個性的で快適な服をデザインします。

KimonoLove www.facebook.com/KimonoLoveVancouver Vintage kimono and haori jackets. These stunning silk garments are elegant, unique and hand-crafted in Japan. ヴィンテージの着物と羽織のジャケット。見事なシルクの衣服は、エレガントで個性的、そして日本で手作りしています。 Karet Design www.karet.design One-of-a-kind unique jewelry. There is Tiny Fashion Collection which includes tiny earrings of kimonos, bags and dresses made by leather. 一つ一つ違うデザインのアクセサリー。ちっちゃなファッションシリーズでは服やバッグのピアスでコーディネートが楽しめます。 Blim www.blim.ca

Blim sells locally made custom haoris, printed shirts, socks, handmade fanny packs, and buttons with pop Japanese content. Handmade items created by local artists of Asian descent are also sold. ブリムは、地元で作られたカスタムメイドの羽織り、プリントシャツ、靴下、手作りのファニーパック、日本の要素を取り入れたポップなボタンを販売しています。アジア系の地元アーティストによる手作りアイテムも販売しています。 agnit www.etsy.com/ca/shop/AiUniqueJewelryShop agnit is composed of a group of three who love making handmade jewelry using a fusion of beads and materials from both Canada and Japan. The jewelry is made and sold in both countries. 三人組のagnitは、カナダと日本の両方のビーズと素材を融合して手作りのジュエリーを作ります。ジュエリーは両国で作成、販売されています。

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PAC WEST IMPORT/EXPORT LTD kimono.pacwestie.com Pac West sells Japanese apparel, fashion accessories, and gifts, including yukata, obi, jinbei, geta sandals, caps, scarves, tabi socks, purses, and pouches. Pac West has something for everyone. 和風デザインの衣服、アクセサリー、浴衣、帯、甚平、下駄、帽子、ス

Kiku Wellness kikuwellness.com Kiku wellness is the holistic wellness centre of Japanese healing art in Vancouver. We bring complementary and alternative care for our community. We provide experience of our Japanese services and beauty and wellness. It incorporates many therapeutic tools that your therapist chooses from to enhance the body, mind and spirit. キクウェルネスは、バンクーバーにある日本のヒーリングアートの総合的なウェルネスセンターです。私たちは、コミュニティに補完的で代替的なサービスを提供します。日本的な美と健康のサービスを体感できます。心身を高めるために数多くの治療ツールを取り揃えています。

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Fumiko Horan www.kimonobyfumiko.com With extensive knowledge of kimono, Fumiko currently teaches kimono dressing, makes kimono, yukata, japanese accessories (tsumamikanzashi) and theatrical costumes. フミコは、着物についての幅広い知識を生かして、着付け教室を開講しています。また、着物、浴衣、摘みかざし、舞台衣装を作ります。 Antler to Shimarisu www.facebook.com/ShimaRisu.usiRamihS

Yui Nakahori studied at Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry in Tokyo, and LaSalle College in Vancouver. Yui uses mixed materials and style, including sterling K10 gold, 925 silver and bronze, gemstones – specifically rock stone, and leather to create one-of-a-kind jewelry. ユイ・ナカホリは、東京のヒコ・みづのジュエリーカレッジとバンクーバーのラサールカレッジで勉強し、スターリングK10ゴールド、925シルバー、ブロンズ、天然石（具体的にはロックストーン）、レザーなど、さまざまな素材とスタイルを使用して、他に類を見ないジュエリーを作ります。

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Mia Ohki

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ポスターアーティスト Mia Ohki ミア・オオキ Mia Ohki is a Japanese Canadian artist. Born in Connecticut, USA, and raised in Alberta, Canada, she now lives and works in Vancouver, BC. Mia primarily illustrates with black pen on white paper; however, she has also expanded her work to other visual art mediums, including sculpture and painting. Mia’s art is heavily influenced by her Japanese and Metis heritage. She began practicing art at the age of six, starting with art classes in St. Albert, Alberta, and has since pursued a degree in fine art at the Centre for Arts and Communication at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. Mia is now an independent artist, and aims to create “work for all audiences; striving to depict relatable portrayals of the feminine, social, and cultural influences in my life.” ミア・オオキは日系カナダ人アーティストで、米国コネチカット州に生まれ、カナダのアルバータ州で育ち、現在はBC州のバンクーバーに住んでいます。ミアは主に白い紙と黒いペンで作品を描きます。また、彫刻や絵画を含む視覚芸術を媒体に様々な分野で活動しています。彼女のルーツである日本とメイティの文化が彼女の芸術に、多大な影響を与えています。 6歳のときに、アルバータ州セントアルバートでアートクラスを始め、その後、アルバータ州エドモントンにあるグラントマキューアン大学の芸術コミュニケーションセンターで美術の学位を取得しました。ミアは現在、独立したアーティストであり、「すべての観客のための作品を作成することを目指しながら、自分の人生における女性的、社会的、文化的な影響を描写するよう努めています。」と語っています。

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We are proud to challenge the perception of what being a Japanese Canadian artist is and to present JC artists as a creative force within the broader community. We offer these bios to showcase their wonderful talent, and we look forward to seeing them perform live in the future! 私たちは、日系カナダ人アーティストの概念を覆し、創造力豊かな日系カナダ人アーティストをより広いコミュニティの中で披露できることを誇りに思います。これらの経歴は、彼らの素晴らしい才能をシェアするために掲載されており、今後彼らがライブで公演するのを楽しみにしています！ Bushido 節童 Bushido performs new and traditional music for traditional Japanese musical instruments such as the shakuhachi, taiko, shinobue, shamisen, and koto. 尺八、太鼓、篠笛、三味線、琴などの和楽器を使って、伝統的な音楽と現代的な音楽を演奏します。

Chibi Taiko ちび太鼓 The first youth taiko ensemble formed in Canada in 1993. The membership includes 15 youths from the ages of nine to 31. Chibi has been recognized as one of the most talented youth performing groups in BC. They have performed for Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver Children's Festival, Cherry Blossom Festival, Nikkei Matsuri and of course Powell Street Festival. 1993年にカナダで結成された初の青少年による太鼓アンサンブル。9歳から31歳までの15人の青少年がメンバーです。ちび太鼓は、ブリティッシュ・コロンビア州で最も才能のある若者のパフォーマンスグループの1つとして認められています。バンクーバーフォークミュージックフェスティバル、バンクーバーチルドレンズフェスティバル、桜祭り、日系祭り、そしてもちろんパウエル祭への出演経験があります。

JODAIKO 女太鼓 Founded in 1988 to provide a creative outlet for women performing within the confines of a then largely male-dominated cultural tradition, JODAIKO continues to bring together some of the top professional women taiko artists currently based throughout North America. Following the custom of returning for the hometown matsuri, Jodaiko members gather together each year for Powell Street Festival to celebrate, cut loose, eat, and drum! 1988年に結成された女太鼓(JODAIKO)は、男性支配的な太鼓の伝統を打ち破って出てきた、女性太鼓グループのひとつです。北米全土で最も優れた女性太鼓奏者から編成されています。地元のお祭りで活躍する日本の太鼓の伝統に従い、毎年パウエル祭ではメンバーが勢揃いします。

Katari Taiko 語り太鼓 Katari Taiko: Canada’s first taiko ensemble. In its 41st year, this exhilarating, intergenerational and multi-cultural percussion collective continues to pursue “a way to summon music from thunder.” Rooted in the Japanese Canadian experience, and inspired by the social struggles and liberation movements of North America, it bridges cultures through athletic, powerful, and graceful performances that are both dance and music. Let the drums talk! 語り太鼓は、カナダ初の太鼓アンサンブルです。陽気で世代を超えた多文化太鼓グループで、「雷から音楽を呼び起こす方法」を追求し続け、今年で 41年目を迎えました。日系カナダ人の経験に端を発し、北米の社会的闘争と解放運動の影響を受け、強健的でパワフル、かつ優雅なダンスと音楽の両方を通じて文化の橋渡しをします。太鼓を鳴り響かせろ！ Kohei Yoshino コウヘイ・ヨシノ Kohei Yoshino is a singer songwriter based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Since he picked up an acoustic guitar at the age of 10, Kohei has actively performed in bands in countries such as Japan, Mexico, and Canada. Currently he spends most of his time writing his own music and entertaining locals and tourists on Granville Island. ブリティッシュ・コロンビア州バンクーバーに本拠を置くシンガー・ソングライター。10歳でアコースティックギターを始めて以来、日本、メキシコ、カナダなどの国で活躍しています。現在は、グランビル・アイランドで作曲をしながら地元の人々や観光客を魅了しています。

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Dahaza ダハザ Dahaza performs new and traditional music for traditional Japanese musical instruments such as the shakuhachi, taiko, shinobue, shamisen, and koto. 尺八、太鼓、篠笛、三味線、琴などの和楽器を使って、伝統的な音楽と新しい音楽を織り交ぜて演奏します。

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Onibana Taiko 鬼花太鼓 Formed in 2016, Onibana Taiko are three veterans of Vancouver’s taiko community whose performance presentations draw from Japanese folk rituals such as minyo and matsuri all with a touch of punk aesthetics. Through performance, Onibana allows audience members to commune with our ancestors via obon dance, song, sensu (fan) cheerleading, fue, shamisen and kick-ass taiko. The group is comprised of Kage, Noriko Kobayashi and Leslie Komori. 鬼花太鼓は2016年に結成され、バンクーバーの太鼓コミュニティの3人のベテランにより、日本の民俗儀式である民謡や祭りなどのエッセンスとパンクの美学を取り入れた演出が行われています。お盆踊り、歌、扇子、チアリーディング、笛、三味線、太鼓を通じて、先祖と対話しているような体験を提供します。グループはカゲ、ノリコ・コバヤシ、レスリー・コモリで構成されています。 The Sakura Singers さくらシンガーズ The Sakura Singers was formed 45 years ago, directed by

Mrs. Ruth Suzuki, and was inaugurated into a Society in 2006. They promote the enjoyment of Japanese songs and better understanding and appreciation by all Canadians pertaining to Japanese Canadian culture. They invite anyone who loves to sing Japanese songs to join them. さくらシンガーズはRuth Suzuki指揮のもと45年前創設され、 2006 年にブリティッシュ・コロンビア州の非営利団体として登録されました。日本の歌を広く広めたり、日系カナダ人の文化への理解を深めるための活動をしています。日本の歌がお好きな方はぜひご参加ください。さくらシンガーズは、2年に一度コンサートを開催しています。 Sansho Daiko 山椒太鼓 Drawing on both contemporary and traditional repertoire, Sansho Daiko brings a fresh approach to an ancient art form, creating a visual and aural experience that crosses ethnic and cultural boundaries. Group members bring with them years of experience gained in other taiko groups and share a love of experimentation and exploration. Like the plant it was named after, Sansho Daiko seeks to be a spicy addition to the west coast taiko scene! 山椒太鼓は、現代曲と伝統曲両方を用い、また聴覚だけでなく視覚にも訴え、民族的・文化的境界を越えることで、古代の芸術に新しい風を吹き込みます。他の太鼓グループで何年にも渡って培ってきた経験を生かしながら、試験的な取り組みをしています。植物の山椒のように、西海岸の太鼓シーンにピリリとしたスパイスを加えるような存在でありたいと思っています！ Sawagi Taiko さわぎ太鼓 Formed in 1990, Sawagi Taiko is the first all Asian women's taiko group in Canada. They are a multi-generational group of women of East Asian and Indigenous heritage, brought together by our shared passion for Japanese drumming. “Sawagi” means to “cause a commotion” in Japanese. With thunderous drum beats, stirring vocals, & martial-arts inspired choreography, they share the empowerment and exhilaration we feel through taiko with their diverse audiences. They harness the power of the drum to support feminist &

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social justice ideals. Their spirit, creativity and mutual respect can be felt both on & off the stage. さわぎ太鼓は1990年に結成された、カナダ初、メンバー全員が女性の太鼓グループです。東アジアとファーストネイションのバックグランドを持つ多世代の女性グループであり、日本の太鼓に共通の情熱をもって団結しています。雷鳴の鼓動、ボーカルの旋律、武道の舞台芸術の振り付けなどで、多様な観客とエンパワーメント、爽快感を共有します。太鼓の力を利用してフェミニストと社会正義の理念を追求します。さわぎ太鼓の精神、創造性、そしてメンバー同士のリスペクトは、ステージの上でもステージ以外でも感じられます。 Vancouver Okinawa Taiko バンクーバー沖縄太鼓 Vancouver Okinawa Taiko has been performing at numerous cultural festivals, charity functions, and anniversary events in North America for over a decade. The group's aim is to share Okinawan style drum-dancing and to promote Okinawan culture. Their membership is made up of several generations to reflect this grassroots folk art. バンクーバー沖縄太鼓は、過去10年以上にわたって、北米の様々なフェスティバルや、チャリティー・イベント、記念行事で演奏してきました。グループの目的は、沖縄の太鼓舞踊と沖縄文化を紹介することです。草の根の民族文化を反映し、世代をまたがったメンバーで構成されています。 West Side Warriors ウェスト・サイド・ウォリアーズ Toby Mukai (Tobes) is 50% Japanese, 50% English and 100% Vancouverite. He is an aspiring composer, musician and rapper. Back in March 2008 he suffered a work place accident (he fell three stories off a building) that caused him to go into a recovery program. Despite the odds, in November 2017, he received a Diploma of Continuing Studies in Digital Music Studies from Langara College. Now Tobes volunteers for the Vancouver Adaptive Music Society (VAMS). Dillon RINO Longson is an up and coming rapper in the Vancouver scene. They have been collaborating for the past ten years. トビー・ムカイ（Tobes）は、50％ジャパニーズ、50％イングリッシュ、100％バンクーバー人です。彼は作曲家、ミュージシャン、ラッパー志望のアーティストです。2008年3月には、職場での事故（建物の3階からの転落事故）に苦しみ、リハビリ・プログラムに参加しました。そして、2017年11月にはランガラ・カレッジのデジタル音楽研究を卒業しました。現在はTobesはVancouver Adaptive Music Society（VAMS）でボランティア活動を行っています。バンクーバーでラッパーとして活躍するディロン・リノ・ロンソンと、過去10年間、コラボレーションを続けてきました。 Za Daikon 座・だいこん Za Daikon is a Vancouver-based amateur Japanese theatrical group formed in 1994. They perform Japanese comedies, folktales, and staged readings at various community events. In Japanese with English subtitles. 座・だいこんは、 1994年に結成されたバンクーバーのアマチュア劇団です。これまで様々なコミュニティーイベントで、狂言や民話、舞台朗読などを披露してきました。日本語、英語スクリーン字幕付。

Kisyuu 姫洲 Kisyuu creates big pieces of calligraphy art during her live performance. She uses a variety of brushes which are up to 100cm long to create her art. Japanese calligraphy is known as a quiet, delicate art, but here she shows the possibility and new aspect of Japanese calligraphy which is dynamic and lively. 姫州はライブ・パフォーマンスで大きな書道の作品を作ります。使用する筆は最大１００ｃｍのものを含め、さまざまです。日本の書道は、静かで繊細な芸術として知られていますが、姫州は書道のダイナミックで生き生きとした新しい側面を披露します。 Noor Dance Company ヌーア・ダンス・カンパニー Noor Dance Company was founded by Maki and Negma, two of Vancouver's top belly dancers. They have been enthralling audiences around the world and are thrilled to be back dancing with their students at the Powell Street Festival. Maki has performed and taught in North America, Southeast Asia, and

Japan. She is known for her fluidity, artistry, and strong stage presence. Negma has lived and performed in Dubai, Canada, and Japan. Her style balances grace with technical prowess. ヌーア・ダンス・カンパニーは、MakiとNegmaの二人のベリーダンサーによって結成されました。二人はこれまで世界中の観客を魅了してきましたが、この度、パウエル祭の地に戻り再び生徒と一緒に踊れることを楽しみにしています。Makiは北米、東南アジア、日本の各地で活動をしており、しなやかさ、芸術性、ステージ上での存在感の強さで評価されています。Negmaは、ドバイ、カナダ、日本を拠点に、気品と卓越した技術を兼ね備えたパフォーマンスをしてきました。

Baton Twirling Team 楓 KAEDE Baton Twirling Team 楓 KAEDE presents "Let's get this Matsuri Started!" This year’s theme is Japanese festival “Matsuri”. This energic performance with skillful baton handling and cheerful dancing will liven up the atmosphere and take the audience into a world of Matsuri. バトンチーム楓による「お祭りを始めよう！」。今年のテーマは「祭り」です。このエネルギー溢れたバトンと活気あるダンスのパフォーマンスは来場者をお祭りの世界へと導きます。 Otowa Ryu Japanese Dance Group 音羽流日本舞踊会 Otowa Ryu Japanese Dance Group has introduced Japanese traditional dances and folk dances at many festivals and events across Canada since the group was formed in 1971. The group consists of all ages, from issei (1st generation) to gosei (5th generation).

Southern Wave – Okinawan Song & Dance サザンウェーブ – 沖縄の歌と踊り Southern Wave was founded in the autumn of 2019 by enthusiasts of Okinawan culture and performing arts. Their goal is to share and to promote sanshin (traditional Okinawan three string banjo), sanba (Okinawan castanets) and Ryukyu buyo (traditional Okinawan dance) with a broader audience. Ayaka Higa is from Okinawa and is an experienced jikata (sanshin player for eisa, Okinawan drum-dancing). Alex & Kei play sanshin & sanba. Marina & Erika grew up on Miyako Island, Okinawa. Masami is a founder of Vancouver Okinawa Taiko. Nori Akagi is a wadaiko player, percussionist and song writer. サザンウェーブは、 2019年の秋に沖縄の文化と舞台芸術の愛好家によって設立されました。彼らの目標は、より多くの人々と三線（伝統的な沖縄の3弦バンジョー）、三波（沖縄のカスタネット）および琉球舞踊（伝統的な沖縄のダンス）を共有し、広めることです。メンバーは沖縄出身のヒガアヤカ、経験豊富なジカタ太鼓舞踊）、三線とサンバ担当のアレックスとケイ、宮古島で育ちのマリナとエリカ、バンクーバー沖縄太鼓の創設者マサミ、そして和太鼓奏者、打楽器奏者、そして作詞家のアカギノリはです。 Caitlan and Chika ケイトランとチカ Caitlan & Chika is a West Coast folk project made up of fiddler Caitlan Read and guitarist Chika Buston. Grounding themselves in traditional fiddle music, they invent unusual, heartfelt melodies and weave them with a relaxed and soulful rhythmic sensibility. Caitlan and Chika’s greatest delight is in potentiating fun, celebration, and joy in their audiences! Their debut album of original tunes was recorded locally in 2015, and their second full-length album is due for release later this year. ケイトラン＆チカは、バイオリニストのケイトラン・リードとギタリストのチカ・バストンで構成される西海岸のフォークプロジェクトです。伝統的なフィドルミュージックを元に、独特な心のこもったメロディーに落ち着いたソウルフルなリズムを織り交ぜます。オーディエンスに楽しい時間を届けることが、ケイトランとチカの最大の喜びです。オリジナル曲のデビューアルバムは2015年に収録され、2番目のフルアルバムは今年後半にリリースされる予定です。 GO Taiko and Taiko 55 GO太鼓と太鼓55 GO Taiko are a new taiko group that began with students from Admiral Seymour and Waverley Elementary Schools. Their roots are from East Vancouver and Richmond. They try to bring a fresh energetic approach to their drumming. Taiko 55 are a group of seniors who love taiko drumming. They are based in Richmond and are role models for their generation. Together, GO Taiko and Taiko 55 have become a taiko family, who may be the only intergenerational taiko program in Canada. GO太鼓は、シーモア提督とウェイバリー小学校の子供たちが始めた新しい太鼓グループです。彼らのルーツはイーストバンクーバーとリッチモンドで、新鮮でエネルギッシュなアプローチで太鼓に取り組みます。太鼓55は太鼓が大好きな年配者のグループ

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Kokoro ココロ Kokoro Dance was formed in 1986 by Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi and has since performed more than 1,000 times across Canada, the US, in Europe, Mexico, and South America. Kokoro Dance has created more than 190 dance works based on its own blend of contemporary dance and butoh. ココロダンスは1986年にバーバラ・ブールジェとジェイ・ヒラバヤシによって設立され、以来ヨーロッパ、メキシコ、南米のカナダ全土で1,000回以上公演してきました。ココロダンスは、現代ダンスと舞踏を融合させた190以上のダンス作品を制作しています。

音羽流日本舞踊会は、1971年の結成以来、カナダ全国の多くのお祭りやイベントで日本の伝統的な舞踊や民謡踊りなどを広く紹介してきました。グループは１世から５世まで、幅広い年代のメンバーで構成されています。

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です。リッチモンドに拠点を置き、彼らの世代のロールモデルとなっています。GO太鼓と太鼓55は、カナダ有数の世代を超えた太鼓ファミリーです。 Kimiko Dorey ドレイ・キミコ Kristin Kimiko Dorey is a hapa vocalist hailing from Surrey, BC. Growing up, Kristin attended Japanese Language School, and at the same time, began studying voice. As a teen, both areas of study were abandoned; however, Kristin is on a journey to reclaim her Japanese heritage and her voice. She is proudly sansei, a social justice educator, soloist for YVR Pop Choir, and doggo enthusiast. クリスティン・キミコ・ドレイは、BC州サレー出身の日系ボーカリストです。クリスティンは幼少期に日本語学校に通い、同時に発声の勉強を始めました。10代のとき、いったん両方のトレーニングから退きましたが、今再び日本のヘリテージと発声法を取り戻す旅に出ています。彼女は、社会正義教育者、YVR ポップ合唱団のソリスト、犬好きでもあり、三世であることを誇りに思っています。 Kotojiro with CoSei ことじろうとコセイ A koto/guzheng & guitar/ukulele & piano trio with an eclectic repertoire of traditional, folk, latin, Celtic, new age and world music. (Originals and covers) They incorporate the koto (known as guzheng in China), a traditional Asian instrument, into contemporary music, as well as playing it alongside ubiquitous western instruments, the guitar and the piano. Their music shows how traditions from different cultures can be adapted for modern styles, and be combined to perform together, as well as maintaining and continuing connections to the past 伝統音楽、民俗音楽、ラテン音楽、ケルト音楽、ニューエージとワールドミュージックの幅広いレパートリーを備えた琴/ guzheng、ギター/ウクレレとピアノのトリオ。（オリジナルとカバー）伝統的なアジアの楽器である琴（中国ではguzhengとして知られています）を現代音楽に取り入れ、おなじみの西洋楽器、ギター、ピアノと共に演奏します。彼らの音楽は、さまざまな文化の伝統を現代のスタイルに適合させ、組み合わせながら、過去とのつながりを維持し続ける方法を示します。 Chi-hiro Homma チヒロ・ホンマ A classically trained pianist who performs Japanese pop and anime songs. Chihiro is a Vancouver-based piano teacher who often arranges pop songs for her students so that they can play their favourite songs. Chihiro recently started arranging music in other genres including instrumental fusion-jazz. クラシックのピアニストが日本のポップやアニメの曲を演奏します。チヒロはバンクーバーを拠点とするピアノ教師で、生徒が好きな曲を演奏できるように、ポップソングをアレンジします。最近では、フュージョンジャズなど、他のジャンルの音楽のアレンジも行っています。

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Kayla Isomura ケイラ・イソムラ Kayla Isomura is a Vancouver-based photographer best known for her multimedia exhibition, The Suitcase Project (2018). With a background in journalism, her interest in storytelling through multimedia has been deeply influenced by her roots as a fourth generation Japanese and Chinese Canadian. Kayla's work has appeared locally at the Nikkei National Museum, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, and Roundhouse Community Centre. In 2020, she made her debut in the United States. In 2018, The Suitcase Project made its debut at the Nikkei National Museum, asking over 60 fourth and fifth generation Japanese Canadians and Americans what they would pack thinking about the forced internment and incarceration many of their ancestors faced in 1942. In this demonstration, guests are invited to watch the video documentary filmed for this project, which further asks participants about the relevancy of this history today. ケイラ・イソムラは、バンクーバーを拠点とする写真家で、代表作

はスーツケースプロジェクト（2018）というマルチメディア展です。ジャーナリズムの経験があり第4世代の日系カナダ人および中国系カナダ人としてのルーツに深く影響され、マルチメディアによるストーリーテリングへの関心があります。ケイラの作品は、バーナビーの国立日系博物館、チャイナタウンの中山中華庭園、ラウンドハウスコミュニティセンターで展示されました。2020年には、アメリカでデビューを果たしました。2018年に国立日系博物館で展示されたスーツケースプロジェクトでは1942年に祖先が経験した強制移動と強制収容について振り返りました。 60名以上の第4世代および第5世代の日系カナダ人と日系アメリカ人を対象に、自分だったら何をスーツケースに詰め込み収容状に持って行くかを尋ねました。参加者はこのプロジェクトのために撮影されたビデオドキュメンタリーを視聴し、さらに、この歴史の今日的意義を考える機会が与えられます。 Duncan Ryuken Williams ダンカン隆賢ウイリアムズ Duncan Ryūken Williams is the Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. Williams is the author of the LA Times bestseller American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2019) and The Other Side of Zen (Princeton University Press) and editor of seven books including Issei Buddhism in the Americas (U-Illinois Press), American Buddhism (Routledge/Curzon Press), Hapa Japan: History, Identity, and Representations of Mixed Race/Mixed Roots Japanese Peoples (Kaya Press) ダンカン隆賢ウイリアムズは、USC 伊藤真聰日本宗教・文化研究センターのディレクターです。ウィリアムズは、 LAタイムズのベストセラー、『アメリカンスートラ：第二次世界大戦における信仰と自由の物語』（ハーバード大学出版局、 2019）、『禅の向こう側』（プリンストン大学出版局）の著者であり、『アメリカ大陸の一世仏教』（U-イリノイプレス）、『アメリカ仏教』（ルートレッジ/カーゾンプレス）、『ハパジャパン：歴史、アイデンティティ、混血/混血日本人の表現』（カヤプレス）、含む7冊の本の編集者でもあります。 Kiyoshi and Soramaru キヨシとソラマル A collaboration of a poet and musician. Together, they will deliver a new world while working in their own field. 詩人と音楽家のコラボレーショングループです。それぞれお互いのフィールドで活動しながらこのたび新たな世界をお届けします。

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TASAI 多彩 The Tasai Collective is a non-profit organization of creatives working toward the common good. Tasai (多彩) is a Japanese word that means “multifaceted.” They nurture cross cultural friendship through artistic collaboration. 多彩コレクティブは、共通の目的を目指して活動するクリエイティブな非営利団体です。多彩とは「多面的」を意味します。彼らは芸術的なコラボレーションを通じて異文化間の友情を育みます。

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Ceremonial 日本の伝統 Omikoshi by Vancouver Rakuichi バンクーバー楽一によるお神輿 The omikoshi, or portable shrine, is an essential element of

festivals all over Japan. The carriers, who are believed to be possessed by a divine spirit, rock the omikoshi vigorously; the more frenzied their efforts, the more good fortune is said to pass onto everyone. お神輿は、日本中のあらゆるお祭りで欠かせない存在です。神霊が宿ると信じられた人が神輿を担ぎ激しく揺さぶることで、人々に幸運がもたらされると考えられています。参加希望の方は、ジャクソン・ストリートのアレクサンダーより南にあるブースで申込をしてください。

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Taka Sudo and Yukiko Adachi タカ・スドウとユキコ・アダチ Born and raised in Tokyo, Taka Sudo now resides in BC, Canada. Taking influence from both Japan and Canada, he creates unique artwork using scattered abstract elements composed of neon colours, newsprint, and photo collage. These abstractions represent our environment, existence, daily life, current affairs, information, and each person’s passion and energy. Yukiko is an illustrator specializing in relatable hand drawn illustrations. Her media of choice are ink and colour pencils on toned kraft paper, though she explores other styles and is constantly building her repertoire of skills. She is originally from Japan but spent her childhood bouncing around different parts of Asia. She holds a BFA in Illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design, and is currently stationed in Vancouver, Canada. 東京で生まれ育ったタカ・スドウは、現在、 BC州に在住しています。日本とカナダの両方から影響を受け、ネオンカラー、新聞用紙、写真に散在する抽象的な要素をつなぎ合わせてユニークなコラージュ作品を作ります。これらの抽象化を通じて、私たちの環境、存在、日常生活、時事問題、情報、そして一人一人の情熱とエネルギーを表現します。ユキコは、なじみやすい手描きイラストを専門とするイラストレーターです。普段はトーンクラフト紙にインクと色鉛筆を使いますが、他のスタイルも模索しており、スキルのレパートリーを常に広げています。もともと日本出身ですが、子供の頃はアジアのさまざまな場所を飛び回っていました。また、サバンナ美術大学でイラストレーションの学士を取得しており、現在はカナダのバンクーバーに駐在しています。

Astrolabe Musik Theatre アストロラーベミュージックシアター Astrolabe Musik Theatre creates compelling, multi-disciplinary works, frequently performed in site-specific/alternative venues, by pushing traditional boundaries of classical vocal music. Particularly passionate about Canadian creators and performers, Astrolabe is dedicated to creating, commissioning, and performing works by Canadian artists. By imaginatively reinterpreting established repertoire and creating original work, we create cultural connections, reach out to diverse communities, and foster active audience engagement. アストロラーベミュージックシアターは、クラシック音楽の境界を押し広げることにより、場所の特性を生かした演奏を披露したり、型にはまらない会場所で演奏したりして、説得力のある、学際的な作品を披露します。カナダのクリエーターとパフォーマーに特に情熱を注ぐアストロラーベは、カナダのアーティストによる作品の作成、委託、および演奏に専念します。確立されたレパートリーを想像力をもって再解釈し、オリジナルの作品を作成することにより、文化的なつながりを作り、多様なコミュニティと関わり、視聴者の積極的な参加を促します。

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Martial Arts 武術

Bujinkan Taka Seigi Dojo 武神館 Taka Seigi道場 Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu is a Japanese martial arts system composed of nine warrior schools of samurai and ninjutsu traditions with lineage dating back more than 1,000 years. Studied internationally by military and security organizations working in high-threat situations, grandmaster Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi’s Bujinkan system has received many elite awards including two from the Emperor of Japan. No other Japanese martial art has received this. Dai-shihan Paul Mann, 15th dan and head of the Bujinkan Vancouver Taka Seigi Dojo, has travelled regularly to Japan over the past 20 years to study under Dr. Hatsumi. 武神館武道体術は、１０００年以上前から侍と忍術の伝統を受け継ぐ９つの流派よりなる日本の武術です。国際的に、危険度の高い現場で働く軍事、保安機関により研究され、初見良昭師の武人館は、天皇陛下からの２つの賞を含む、数多くの賞を受賞しました（他のどの日本武術も天皇陛下からの賞を受賞したことはありません）。武術館バンクーバー、Taka Seigi道場の代表、大師範であるポール・マンは、１５段を所持し、過去２０年以上定期的に日本へ渡航し、初見館長のもと武術を極めています。 Busenkai (Iwamaryu Aikido & Tamiya-Ryu Iaijutsu) 武仙会（岩間流＆田宮流居術） Iwama Shinshin Aikido Busenkai is under the supervision of Kenny Sembokuya Sensei, student of Hitohira Saito Sensei. He was appointed as an instructor for the Busenkai Tokyo Branch in 2010, as well as the head instructor for Canada, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. Busenkai also practices Tamiya-Ryu Iaijutsu. Canada Tamiya-Ryu Iaijutsu Genkei Branch is the first official branch in Canada and an extension of the Tokyo Genkei Honbu (Headquarters) dojo.

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Iwama Shinshin Aikido Busenkai

The Tamiya-Ryu style of iaido is practiced around the world. Techniques are performed with large movements and great precision to embody and express nobility and beauty. 岩間神信合気道武仙会は、斎藤ひとひら先生の弟子ケニー・センボクヤ先生が指導のもと活動を行なっています。センボクヤ先生は、2010年に武仙会東京支部で指導者として認定され、カナダ、マレーシア、インドネシア、台湾、香港、中国における指導者代表としても選ばれました。カナダ田宮流居合術元慶支部は、カナダ初の支部で、東京本部の道場から派生しています。俊敏且つ大きな動きで気高さと美しさを表現します。 Katori Shinto Ryu Kenjutsu 香取神道流剣術 Katori Shinto-Ryu Kenjutsu is a classical martial art focusing on sword fighting techniques. They train to fight with traditional samurai weapons, including long and short swords, fighting staff, spears, and naginata (halberd). Modern kendo and iaido were born from the older schools of kenjutsu, but their techniques are practiced in their unmodified forms and the focus is on the complete warrior who can utilize all weapons in practical combat at full speed. 香取神道流剣術は伝統的な武術で、稽古では長刀、短刀、棒、槍、薙刀（なぎなた）を含む武士の武器を用いた戦術に重点を置きます。現代の剣道や居合道は剣術の古い流派から発達しましたが、この流派の特徴は、実戦を念頭に置き、武士さながらの素早い攻撃を訓練することです。 Kyudo Association of Canada – Vancouver カナダ弓道連盟バンクーバー KAC Vancouver is a local group which studies the art of Japanese Archery known as kyudo. In kyudo, they strive to improve themselves through shooting. Kyudo is not limited to the act

of shooting; it also encompasses all movement and postures in the dojo. KAC Vancouver is a member of the Kyudo Association of Canada, which is affiliated with the International Kyudo Federation based in Tokyo, Japan. KAC（カナダ弓道連盟バンクーバー）は、日本弓道の美を追求します。弓道は、射の動作だけでなく、道場における様々な動き、姿勢、精神状態なども重視します。KACバンクーバーは、東京に拠点を置く国際弓道連盟に所属するカナダ弓道連盟に加盟しています。 Shito-Ryu Karate-Do Canada 糸東流空手道カナダ Japan Seiko-Kai Karate-Do Canada was established in 1970 and currently has over 1000 members nationally. We also have over 25 international branch clubs. They focus on teaching traditional methods of self-defense while promoting a balance between mind, body and spirit. Currently, they are increasing our focus on bullying-prevention activities, including collaboration with other martial arts groups to perform and fundraise for Pink T-shirt Day. 日本清光会空手道カナダは、１９７０年に創立し、現在カナダ全土で１０００人を超えるメンバーが登録しています。伝統的な護身法に力点を置きながら、同時に、心、体、精神のバランスを促進します。現在、他の武道グループとのコラボレーションやピンクTシャツデイのための募金活動など、いじめ防止活動に注力しています。

Shorinji Kempo 少林寺拳法 Shorinij Kempo are practitioners of shorinij kempo, a martial art that provides the benefits of self-defence, physical health, and spiritual development. Their common goal is to improve society by improving the lives of its members. 少林寺拳法は「護身練鍛」、「健康増進」、「精神修養」の三徳を兼ね備えた武道です。社会の構成員の生活を向上することが、少林寺拳法の目的とされます。

Vancouver Iaido Club バンクーバー英信流居合道クラブ Iaido is a traditional samurai martial art using Japanese swords. The Vancouver Eishin-Ryu Iaido Club practices the classical form of iaido, known as Muso Jikiden Eishin-Ryu. This martial art dates back over 450 years and is unbroken in its transmission through the ages. They will demonstrate traditional forms of sword combat. 居合道は、約450年前に発祥し、時を経て現代まで変わらず伝わる剣技です。バンクーバー英信流居合道クラブは、無双直伝英信流という古来の居合道の流派に属します。パウエル祭では、伝統的な剣戦の型を披露します。

Vancouver Iaido Club

Yoshinkan Aikido of British Columbia Association 養神館合気道B.C. 協会

Aikido is a modern Japanese martial art based upon the principle of harmony through connection, balance, and timing. It is an extremely powerful form of self-defence that is also gentle and non-aggressive: carefully controlling an attacker using the attacker’s own energy. Strength is not emphasized because the use of physical strength is unnecessary. Shioda Aikido is the Aikido of Gozo Shioda; Morihei Ueshiba’s most outstanding student, and preserves the hard style, pre-war teachings of O'Sensei. 合気道は、連結、バランス、そしてタイミングを利用した和合の原理に基づいて高度に発展した日本の武術です。護身術として非常に強力でありながら、優しく、攻撃的なものではありません。攻撃者のエネルギーを利用して相手をコントロールするため、肉体的な力は必要がありません。篠田合気道は、植芝盛平大先生の戦前からの教えを忠実に守る篠田剛造式の合気道です。

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Shohei Juku Aikido Canada 祥平塾合気道カナダ Aikido is a holistic practice combining physical techniques with mental discipline. Using powerful circular movements, aikido techniques embody the principle of non-resistance, wherein the defender moves in complete harmony with the attacker, bringing the conflict to a peaceful conclusion for both. Shohei Juku Aikido Canada was established to promote the art of Aikido as practiced by Morito Suganuma Sensei (Aikikai 8th dan). Shohei Juku Canada represents the Canadian branch of Suganuma Sensei's organization, which is based in Fukuoka, Japan. In addition to offering Aikido classes to all levels of interested students, their dojo hosts a yearly seminar with Suganuma Sensei in Vancouver. 合気道は肉体的な技巧と精神的な規範を含めた、総合的な実践です。合気道は抵抗の否定を理念とし、力強い円形の動きを利用することで、襲撃者との「和合」を目指し、対立を平和的解決に導くことを追求します。祥平塾合気道カナダは、菅沼守人先生（合気会八段）の合気道を普及するために創立され、福岡に拠点のある菅沼塾のカナダ支部となっています。合気道のクラスを提供するほか、毎年菅沼先生のバンクーバー訪問に際してセミナーを開催しています。

UBC Classical Bujutsu UBC古武道柔術 We are an organization dedicated to the practice, preservation, and promotion of the classical martial arts of Japan. For more information on us, please reference www.shofukan.ca. UBC古流柔術クラブは日本の戦国時代または江戸時代に武士によって作られた格闘技の振古、研究をしている団体です。このクラブの指導者は皆、日本で古武道を習い免許を取得しました。

Membership メンバーシップ Top-up your Powell Street Festival Society Membership! A Lifetime Membership to the Powell Street Festival Society!

2020 Annual Top-Up valid from April 1, 2020 – March 31, 2021.

パウエル祭の生涯会員！

２０２０年のトップアップは２０２０年４月１日から２０２１年３月３１日まで有効です。 It’s a great way to support the Festival and keep in touch! You also get voting rights at our Annual General Meeting in the Spring.

Annual top-up for current Lifetime Members 生涯会員の年間トップアップ................................$12 Annual top-up & new Lifetime Membership 新規会員プラス年間トップアップ............................$24 Lifetime Membership only, no Annual Top-up 生涯会員、年間トップアップなし..........................$12 Annual Members receive a Membership Card valid until March 31, 2021, entitling you a 10% discount at these

local businesses. PSF would like to acknowledge the hardships that many of our beloved local businesses are

facing during the COVID-19 crisis. We recognize the importance of supporting our local economy and we stand in

solidarity with our Membership Partners. Most of the businesses are currently open with certain conditions; however, some businesses are not yet operational. Please support these businesses by purchasing an Annual Top-Up Membership and taking advantage of the discounts now and in the near future!

年間会員には、2021年3月31日まで有効な会員カードが発行され、下記のお店での10％の割引が受けられます。パウエル祭協会は、COVID-19の最中に私たちが愛する地元の企業の多くが困難な状況に置かれており、地域経済をサポートすることの重要性を認識しており、メンバーシップパートナーを結んでいます。ほとんどの企業は現在、特定の条件で営業しています。た

だし、一部の企業はまだ営業されていません。年間トップアップメンバーシップを購入し、現在および近い将来に割引を利用し

て、地元ビジネスをサポートしてください！

10% off in store at Coconama Chocolate retail location, first ganache chocolate shop in North Vancouver at

264 E. 1 Street OPEN (Mon+Wed-Sun: 10am – 6pm). ココナマチョコレートで１０％オフ（264 East 1 Street ）：ノースバンク

ーバー初のガナッシュチョコレートショップ。火曜定休、開店時間は１０時から１８時まで。

10% off of Catfe food, drink and ‘meowchandise’ in store. Catfe is part cafe, part foster home for cats, and a

space to hang with kitties! #2035 – International Village Mall, 88 W. Pender Street. CURRENTLY CLOSED. Catfeで１０％オフ（＃2035 – インターナショナル・ビレッジ・モール、88 West Pender Street）：猫と触れ合える猫カフェでの食べ物、飲み物、猫関連商品。現在、閉店中。

10% off in store at Tama Organic Life, a treasure trove of Japanese food products & organic vegetables as well as healthy home-made foods including daily bentos at #102 – 2828 E. Hastings Street OPEN (Mon-Sun: 9:30am –

4pm). Tama Organic Lifeで１０％オフ（＃102 – 2828 East Hastings Street）：日本食品と有機野菜の宝庫、健康的な手作り日替わり弁当など。毎日、９時半から１６時まで開店。

10% off BLIM classes and at retail shop. BLIM is an independent art and craft workshop space, resource, and

small business at 115 E. Pender Street. NOW OPEN (Mon-Thurs+Sat: 12pm – 5pm). BLIMでのアート教室とお店１０％

オフ（115 E. Pender Street）独立したアートとクラフトのワークショップ兼ビジネス。金曜、日曜定休、開店時間は１２時から５時まで。

$1 off large coconut puddings at Vegan Pudding, the one and only vegan custard pudding store at 422 Richards Street. The discount is now redeemable on online orders through Facebook, Instagram, and email veganpudding-

co@gmail.com Be sure to tell them you are a PSF Top-Up Member when making your online purchase to apply the

discount OPEN (Mon-Fri: 11am – 5pm). ビーガンプリンでのココナッツプリン（大）＄１オフ（422 Richards Street）唯一のビ

ーガンカスタードプリンのお店。今ならオンラインでも注文を受け付けています。オンラインの場合、チェックアウトの最PSFトッ

プアップメンバーと言うとココナッツプリン（大）＄１オフになります。営業時間は、月曜日から金曜日の１１時から１７時まで。

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Membership メンバーシップ 10% off in store at Baker & Table Café, the only place you can get mochi melonpan, Japanese cakes, & yougashi,

a Japanese peanut-free bakery at 6414 Fraser Street OPEN (Mon:10am – 6pm, Tues-Sun: 8pm – 7pm). ベーカー＆テー

ブルで１０％オフ（6414 Fraser Street）もちメロンパン、日本のケーキと洋菓子が手に入る唯一のピーナッツフリー日本ベーカ

リー。営業時間は、月曜日のみ１０時から１８時、火曜日から日曜日は８時から１９時まで。

10% off at Dosanko, Japanese homestyle yoshoku restaurant sourcing seasonally inspired, local ingredients,

located at 566 Powell St. 10% discount is redeemable for pick up orders between Tuesday and Thursday 1pm –

5pm. Orders must be preordered by the day before. Be sure to tell them your name and that you are a PSF Top-Up

Member when placing your order to apply the discount. OPEN FOR RESERVATIONS & DELIVERY (Tues-Sat: 11:30pm

– 2:30pm, 5pm – 8pm). どさんこで１０％オフ（566 Powell Street）旬でローカルな材料を使ってる日本の洋食屋さん。今な

らテイクアウトのみオンラインで注文を受け付けています。テイクアウトは火曜〜木曜１時から５時の間可能です。オーダーの

最PSFトップアップメンバーと言うと１０％オフになります。デリバリーと予約を受け付けています。営業時間は火曜から土曜の

１１時半から１４時半までと１７時から２０時まで。

10% off Powell Street Festival Society merchandise at Festival and all year. パウエル祭協会オリジナルグッズ１

０％オフ（イベント会場とオンラインにて）

Your membership card also gets you そのほか、以下の特典も受けられます.

Discounted rates at PSFS art presentations all year long! PSFSアートプレゼンテーションでの割引！

Powell Street Festival Merchandise パウエル祭商品

2020 Limited Edition T-Shirt/Tank, design by Mia Ohki | $20 (Adults) | $15 (Kids) ミア・オオキデザインの２０２０年限定のTシャツ、タンクトップ Octopus Tank | $25 タコのタンクトップ

Andrea Wan 2015 Design Limited Edition Totes | $20 アンドレア・ワンデザインの２０１５年限定トートバッグ 2020 Hachimaki (headband) | $2 2020パウエル祭はちまき 2020 Furoshiki | $7 2020パウエル祭風呂敷

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Thank You to Our Supporters and Funders FUNDERS

PERFORMANCE PARTNERS

COMMUNITY PARTNER

VOLUNTEER PARTNER DAV ID L AM CENTRE

Thank you to our 2020 Individual Donors 2020 年の寄贈者およびスポンサーのみなさま、ご支援ありがとうございます Asia Harvey, Barbara Pulling, Carolyn Yoshida-Butryn, Colin Yakashiro, Corey Bauch, David Yakashiro, Emily Yakashiro, Giant Octopus Restaurant, Jane Good, Janice Shimizu, Kathy Shimizu, Lia Cosco, Margaret Nakamura, Noriko K Matsuno, Seiichiro Fukumura, Shinobu Homma, Strefani Yakashiro Thank you to our 2020 Supporting Organizations aisle (formerly Lunapads), Arsenal Pulp Press, Baker & Table Café, Blim, Cadeaux Bakery, Catfe, COCONAMA Chocolates, Dollarama, Dosanko, Emily Carr Continuing Studies, Figure 1 Publishing Inc., FreshPoint, Fujiya, Geist Magazine, Growing Room Literary Festival, Hapa Izakaya, Indian Summer Arts Society (Indian Summer Festival), Japan Airlines, Listel Hotel, Olivia Skye, Oomomo, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Queer Film Festival, Republica Coffee, Simon Fraser University, Tama Organic Life, TEALEAVES, The Bulletin, The Cinematheque, Tom Lee Music, Vancouver Buddhist Temple, Vancouver Canadians, Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver International Writers Festival, Vancouver Japanese Language School, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver Opera, Vegan Pudding & Co., Vancouver Shinpo

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About Us 私たちについて Board of Directors 理事会

Edward Takayanagi President 会長

Carly Yoshida-Butryn Vice President 副会長 Rebecca Ho Treasurer 会計

Shoko Kitano Secretary 秘書

Mike Okada Director ディレクター Emily Wu Director ディレクター

Kohei Yoshino Director ディレクター

Advocacy & Outreach Committee 権利委員会

Haruho Kubota, Samantha Marsh, Emiko Morita, Tracy Moromisato, Emiko Newman, Heidi Nutley, Maryka Omatsu, Kathy Shimizu, Edward Takayanagi, Rika Uto, Nicole Yakashiro

Fundraising Committee 募金委員会

June Fukumura, Asia Harvey, Rebecca Ho, Emiko Morita, Edward Takayanagi, Kyle Yakashiro, Kohei Yoshino

Programming Committee 編成委員会

Reiko Inouye, Erica Isomura, Samantha Marsh, Hannah Chijiwa Morgan, Emiko Morita, Mike Okada, Kevin Takahide Lee, Emily Wu

Staff スタッフ

Emiko Morita Executive Director エクゼクティブ・ディレクター Samantha Marsh Program Coordinator プログラム・コーディネーター June Fukumura Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator ステークホルダーエンゲージメント・コーディネーター Tracy Moromisato Special Projects Coordinator スペシャルプロジェクト・コーディネーター Sophia Kitazume Administrative Assistant アドミニストレイティブ・アシスタント Nathan Armstrong Festival Crew and IT Intern フェスティバル・クルー、 ITインターン Roy Blyan Festival Crew フェスティバル・クルー Louise Ma Festival Crew フェスティバル・クルー Jessie Isomura Festival Crew フェスティバル・クルー Kathy Shimizu Community Engagement Consultant コミュニティエンゲージメント・コンサルタント

Telethon Team

Emcees 司会 Tetsuro Shigematsu, Yurie Hoyoyon Telethon Producer テレソン・プロデューサー Susanne Tabata Technical Production Services テクニカルプロダクションサービス James Downey and Clark’s Audio Visual Telethon Operators テレソン・オペレーター Carly Yoshida-Butryn, Rebecca Ho, Shoko Kitano, Mike Okada, Kohei Yoshino, Emily Wu Festival Illustrator フェスティバル・イラストレーター Mia Ohki Graphic Designers グラフィック・デザイナー John Endo Greenaway, Barb Yamazaki Web Designer ウェブ・デザイナー Jai Dwja Fundraising Consultant ファンドレイジング・コンサルタント Jessica Borich Hachimaki 鉢巻 Ayako Haga, Noriko Otaki, Midori Ueno, Megumi Vatera, Jamie Carlson, Doris Chow, Ysabel Moromisato, Wanda Madoroko PSFS Merchandize 物販 Miko Hoffman, Nina Inaoka Lee

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日系ガーデンのテントについて Telus からのご厚意により、NNMCC の夏のプログラムを野外で行うためのテント（屋根部分のみ）を多数貸し出して頂いています。これらのテントにより、空気の流れや参加者の安全を促進しつつ、日差しや雨からも守られながら、日系ガーデンにて七夕フリーマーケットやマンガキャンプを行うことができます。 Telus に感謝申し上げます！

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お勧めプログラム展示日系午前 10 時から午後 1 時 , 午後 2 時から 5 時 ( 定休日：日、月) 最終入館時間：午後 4 時 30 分「日系」という言葉は、1868 年から始まる明治維新の時期に、外国に住む日本人の移民及びその子孫を表す言葉として使われ始めました。この展示では日系博物館のアーカイブ収蔵品から、日系カナダ人（カナダに住む日系人）が語る自身についての物語が展示されます。カナダへの来航の経緯や、逆境を乗り越えてきたコミュニティーの力、移民、人種差別、アイデンティティ、帰属意識が交錯する中での世代を通した経験、それらの背後に存在する人々一人ひとりを知ってください。ギャラリーの入場料は＄５、日系センター会員は無料です。

ご案内七夕＋フリーマーケット 7 月 4 日土曜日 ¦ 午前 11 時から午後４時織姫と彦星が年に一度だけ会えると言われている「七夕」。短冊に願いを書きましょう。日系ガーデンではフリーマーケットも開催されます。最新情報についてはウェブサイトにてご確認ください。

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日系ポエムポエムや写真、録音をお送りくださった皆様、ありがとうございました。プロジェクトは 7 月に芸術家集団 Tasai によりオンラインで初演されます。日系センターのウェブサイトやソーシャルメディアで最新情報をご確認ください。

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update 日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア＆住宅協会コミュニティの皆さまに感謝執筆日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア＆住宅協会理事長ルース・コールズ翻訳大島利子この困難な時期に最前線で働くロバート新見・日系ホームと新さくら荘のスタッフや入居者に対して個人の方々やコミュニティの団体から多大な支援と激励をいただきました。日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア＆住宅協会を代表して、ルース・コールズが感謝を込めてこの記事を書きました。今回私たちは全世界で新型コロナウイルスの大流行を経験しました。何百万人もの人がウイルスに感染し、悲劇的にも何十万人にも及ぶ死者を迎える結果になってしまいました。世界中に生じた人々の苦しみや悲しみは想像しがたいものです。私達の思いと祈りをこの感染症で亡くなられた方や苦しまれた方々の御家族そして個人に捧げます。また一方、新見日系ホーム、新さくら荘共にこの禍を免れたことに深く感謝しています。この地域でも新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大が生じましたが、フレイザーヘルス保健局の指導のもと、新見日系ホームのスタッフは入居者がウイルスに感染しないように厳格な予防策を設けました。そのためケアの仕方、アクティビティそしてスタッフや入居者のスケジュールが変更され、ハイゲンキ・レストランでは一般客を受け入れていません。これらのいくつかの変更はフレイザーヘルス保険局の要請によるもので、変更事項のため協会の運営コストが実質的に増加となっています。更なる孤立化、頻繫な衛生対策、グループアクティビティの削減、食事時間の変更などはホームの入居者が経験した変化のほんの一部に過ぎません。特にシニアにとって日常生活が変わることはストレスですし、またスタッフはそれに対応しなければなりません。簡単なことではありません。スタッフもスケジュールの調整を行わなければなりませんでした。労働時間が長くなることもありましたが、決意と勇気を持って事態に対応してくれたスタッフ全員に大変感謝しております。

これらのご支援はこの状況下で入居者のケアを続けているスタッフを元気づけるだけでなく、士気を上げ、物質的に役立っています。ありがとうございました。皆さまから寄せられたサポートに感謝すると同時に、パンデミックとの戦いをこれからも続けるために引き続きご支援をお願いいたします。規制が緩和されると共に、新しいケアの方法について創造力を持って考案していく必要があります。スタッフはその準備ができていますが、皆さまからの応援も不可欠です。どうぞ周りの方、特に感染しやすい方や重症化しやすい方を気遣い助け合いましょう。新型コロナウイルス感染症が終息し、不安や恐れのない日常が一日も早く戻ってくることを祈っています。ロバート新見・日系ホームおよび新さくら荘について詳しくはウェブサイトをご覧ください。

日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア＆住宅協会ウェブサイト seniors.nikkeiplace.org

新型コロナウイルスの感染症発生よりコミュニティの皆さま、また意外なところから多大な支援をいただきました。その一部ですがご紹介します。 •

地元の蒸留酒製造所がスタッフや入居者用に必要だった消毒液を提供してくれました。子供さんやお孫さんなどご家族がホームで暮らす家族や親戚を元気づけるために手紙や絵を送ってくれていますグラッドストーン日本語学校の先生方や生徒さんたちも絵や励ましの言葉を送ってくれています最前線のスタッフのサポートとして球根専門店 Van Noort Bulb Co. からチューリップをいただきましたスタッフの昼食にと Bento Sushi からお寿司が届けられました地元放送局 Global TV は当協会が支援を必要としていることを知らせる枠を数回にわたって設けてくれましたスタッフへの感謝の気持ちがつまったカップケーキやクッキーなどのお菓子もたくさんいただきましたこのパンデミックによって生じた費用を賄うために当協会に支援金が寄せられました

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

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2020-2021 年度理事

今年初めてズームを介してのオンライン年次総会は、2019 年度会員の皆様多数にご参加頂き年次報告書、および 2 名の新理事そして 5 名の再選理事の承認を頂きました。当日オンラインで、また郵送による承認でのご参加を頂きました皆様、有難うございました。2020・2021 年度は以下の理事メンバーで運営させて頂きます。理事長；岩浅デビット、副理事長；眞鍋恭子、財務担当理事；オカダ・ラリー、書記；ビーティ・マイケル、理事；バンホーン・まみこ、李パトリック小早川マーティン、モトハシ・カナコ、コピソーン珠子、小川学、ヒロセキャメロン・リサ、犬塚真琴

手作りマスクのボランティアみなさん、ありがとう！ 5、6 月中にご寄付頂いた皆様へ「特製隣組ロゴ入り手作りマスク」をプレゼントと銘打ち始まったキャンペーン。予想を超えるご寄付と、それにこたえるためのマスク作りに以下 4 名のシニアボランティアが奮闘してくれました。6 月 15 日までに 200 枚を超えるマスクが皆様のお手元に届いたかとおもいます。そしてマスクを受け取った皆さんからも、ボランティアに対して多くのお礼やサポートのお言葉を頂きました。有難うございました。

隣組施設、開館へ向けて始動開始 BC 州政府とバンクーバー保健局（VCH）のガイドラインに基づき、隣組は 6 月 22 日から一部施設の開館を決定いたしました。プロによる清掃はもちろん、スタッフも一日の清掃頻度を上げて感染予防に努めています。来館を希望する方は、お電話で事前の予約をお取りください。当日予約なしのご来館の場合、入館をお断りする場合もございます。バンクーバー保健局のガイドラインは、隣組ウエブサイトより英語と日本語でご参照頂けます。隣組利用者すべてへの感染予防と健康を守ることを第一と考えながら試験的な開館です。皆様のご理解とご協力をお願い致します。開館時間等の詳細は隣組ウエブサイト「TG RE-OPEN」をご参照下さい。

隣組 JCCA 共催チャリティーゴルフ 8 月 23 日に開催今年も素晴らしいメド―ガーデンゴルフクラブにて開催致します。例年の土曜日から日曜日の開催となります。今年は日系カナダ人コミュニティーゴルフが始まってから 55 周年を記念する歴史あるイベントです。ソーシャルディスタンスを保ちながら、ゴルフ仲間と過ごす一日。ゴルフ好きな方なら誰でも楽しめるイベントです。孤立したシニアへのサポートを目的とした当イベントへのスポンサー詳細と登録情報は隣組ウエブサイトをご参照下さい。

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

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9609: お爺さん（祖父）との邂逅管理事務所から送られてきた祖父の事件簿（約 500 ページ）を初めて開いた時、手書きで 9609 番の文字がありました。これは何を意味するのでしょう？ 9609 は祖父の被抑留者番号で、1942 年から 49 年までの日系カナダ人の抑留・強制連行を行った政府機関である管理局によって割り当てられていたのです。抑留された日系カナダ人成人の 1 万 5 千件に及ぶ事件簿の中で、祖父、斎本邦松に割り当てられたのが、9609 番だったのです。祖父の話は聞いていましたが、会ったことはありません。祖父母とも私が生まれる前に亡くなっていたからです。祖父の 4 隻の引網船や家族の写真、戦前にスティーブストンにあった家や車の写真は見たことがありました。孫娘が祖父を知りたがるのは当然のことで、祖父が誰なのかもっと知りたいと思いました。そして、この政府の文書が何を伝えているのだろうと考えました。ページを読み進むにつれ、涙が頬をつたっていきました。組織的に民族を抹殺しようとする政府によくあるように、管理局は自らの正当性を証明するべく、驚くほど綿密で詳細な記録を取っていたのです。日系カナダ人の抑留と処分は、冷酷な組織的管理の下に行われ、すべてが文書化されていたのです。読み進めていくと、法的、財政的、行政的な詳細が山のように出てきました。彼の船舶のサイズ、戦争直前に購入した新しいディーゼルエンジンの年数、スティーブストンにおける所有地の数、寝室の数など。点と点を繋げていくうちに、祖父の人となりの明確なイメージが浮かびあがり始めたのです。私が伝え知っていたのは、祖父は 1890 年に和歌山県の小さな貧しい漁村で生まれたということでした。日本海軍の魚雷砲手であった彼の兄が、祖父が 16 歳の時（1907 年）に徴兵制を避けてカナダに移住して、希望の土地にて一財産を築くように勧めたのでした。小学校 6 年生までの教育を受けただけで、英語を全く知らなかった彼はスティーブストンに定住し、やがて魚のバイヤーとなり、4 隻の引網船を所有し、200 人の漁師を契約で雇うまでになりました。彼は個々の漁師の漁獲物を買い取り、まとめて缶詰工場に大量契約で販売していたのでした。やがて祖母と結婚し、10 人の子供をもうけました。スティーブストンの一戸建ての家に住み、1939 年式の新しいドッジ車を運転していました。彼は故郷からカナダに移住する多くの友人の後ろ盾となっていました。根性があり、ビジネスに精通し、高潔で、家庭的な人でした。読み進めていくうち、祖父は活動家だったこともわかりました。活動家といってもいわゆる「アンチ運動」や「パウエルストリート占領」を唱えるプラカードを掲げるタイプとは違います。路上で暴動を起こしたり、略奪したり、警察署を焼き払ったりしたわけではないですが、それと同じような怒りを感じていたのだろうと想像に難くはありません。新カナダ人として、彼はカナダの権力構造と民主主義に根ざした制度システムを徹底的に学び、適応していたのです。彼ストリートスマートだったので、自分自身の価値や自分が築き上げたものの価値をわかっており、信念のために立ち上がりました。カナダの「システム」がどのように機能しているかについて、彼が持っていた驚くほど詳細で深い知識にそれが現れていました。彼はシステムを利用して、自分自身のために、公平だと信じていることのために、平和的に立ち上がることができました。要するに、彼は不正の犠牲者にはならなかったのです。制度の中で制度を使うことで、彼は勇敢にも制度に挑戦したのでした。祖父は、自己資産の業務記録を綿密に取っていました。彼は情報が文書化 475 & 487 Alexander St. Vancouver, B.C. V6A 1C6 Tel: 604.254.2551 Fax: 604.254.9556 Website: www.vjls-jh.com 86 月報 The Bulletin

された時の力を知っていたので、コストや収益だけでなく、買い替え費用のための保険、評価や鑑定書、公証賃貸借契約書による家主のテナントの取り決め、減価償却費記録などを取り揃えていました。彼は、カナダのビジネス、財務、法的構造を理解していました。市民権の成り立ちを理解していたのです。 1948 年、彼と他の日系カナダ人は、いわゆる「バード・コミッション」と呼ばれる要求でカナダ政府を訴えました。これは私の祖父、そして日系カナダ人の活動の驚くべき記録です。彼らは、財産没収や強制売却について政府に直訴したのではなく、自分たちの資産の切り下げと、そのために受け取った報酬の低さに異議を唱えたのでした。私の祖父にとっては、スティーブストンにある家、4 艘の船、車、そして最大の資産である大型船、May S 号でした。 60 フィートの長さの引網船であった May S 号は 1942 年 2 月 15 日にカナダ海軍に没収されました。「日本漁船処分委員会」の名の下、カナダ海軍が小型の日本漁船を検挙するために May S 号を使用したのです。建設費（添付書類を参照）は合計で $16,825.80 で、保険で定められた交換価値は $18,000 でした。保険価値は $11,000 になり、譲り受けたカナダ海軍による現在価値は $10,500。そして 1942 年の政府の評価額は $8,750 となり、祖父は $8,057.50 ドルの補償を受けとりました。結果的には、委員会は彼らの評価が実際の価値の 10％も過小評価されていたことをしぶしぶ認めました。ですが、ここで重要なのはその割合ではないのです。これらの日系カナダ人は、自分達と資産の価値を知っており、立ち上がり、結果がどうであれ、自分たちの価値を肯定させたのです。行政的に悪質な、被害者に貶めようとする動きのなか、彼は被害者にはならなかったのです。胸が張り裂けそうになるほど辛かったはずなのに、彼はあきらめなかったのです。ページの隅々まで加害者のルールを逆手にとってモラルの破綻を暴くことで、彼の尊厳は輝きを放っていました。祖父は破壊によってではなく、市民権の原則、地域社会のリーダーシップ、人権の尊重、正義、そして起業家精神をもってして行う活動家の道を選んだのです。事件簿 9609 番。それが祖父、雑本国松だったのです。

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日系労働組合百周年記念（5）差別と感冒爆発が強化した共同体意識 1920 年 7 月 1 日、カナダで日本人労働組合が発足した。忘れていけない事は、既にいくつか「日本人労組」は存在していたことだ。古くは 1903 年の製材所のストに 100 人の日本人が加わっていた。その他、漁業、海員、港湾労働者の争議にも日本人は加わっていた。いつもスト破りに使われていたわけではない。 1917 年、「日本人ソーミル労働組合」が結成された。また、同年、吉江三郎が代表となっていた「日本人海員協会」の７人が白人労組のストライキに加わっている。吉江の名が最初に日系史に登場するのは、1906 年に起きた「密航船水安丸」事件の時だろう。領事館書記生としてヴィクトリアの移民局に駆けつけて、宮城県から来た 83 名の代表・及川甚三郎と会い、カナダ当局と交渉して罰金の支払いと契約移民として一定期間労働することを条件に合法的に移民させることに成功している。当時、吉江はカナダの政治と日系社会に精通している数少ない人間だったろう。1918 年まで東京にいて朝日新聞の記者をしていた鈴木悦とは比べものにならなかったはずだ。吉江は鈴木の労組立ち上げに際しても、賛同者として名乗り出ている。ところが、一方で、吉江は鈴木の労組設立に反対する弁を「加奈陀新聞」に書いてもいる。結局、同胞の福利厚生、労働条件の改善を労組の目的とする吉江と、鈴木たちの友愛と社会民主主義を通じて、白人労働者との相互理解を深め人種差別を回避しようとする方針の違いが明らかになってゆく。さらに、スティーブストンには 1897 年に発足したフレーザー河日本人漁者慈善団体があった。彼らも日系労組に合流することはなかった。理由として、同団体事務局長・林林太郎は自著「黒潮の果て」で、「漁者は労働者だが資本家でもある」とし、政府が漁労免許を削減しても「労働組合はそっぽを向いていた」と批判している。カナダ人漁者団体はいくつもの民族系漁者団体が属していたが、日系漁者に対してはみな差別的だったという。農産業はどうだったか。1919 年、井上二郎は BC 州でヘネー農会を創立した。これは共同で収穫物を加工し販売する生協組織といえるだろう。大戦中は特需でイチゴは大量に売れたが、戦後は一挙に値段が下落した。それに対抗する措置でもあった。井上は、民主的な共同体を目指していた。これはバンクーバーの日本人会のような国粋主義に抵抗して、カナダ主流との調和を目指してしており独立独歩の姿勢だった。井上は、日系漁民が漁労免許を失い困窮しているのを見かねて「日系社会から落伍者が出るのは恥だ」と救済に乗り出した。ところが、元漁民がヘネーに入植し仏教会を設立させて、地元のキリスト教会信者と一線を画するようになるに及んで、統率は乱れていった。 1930 年代になると、瞬く間に日本の国粋主義が日系社会を覆い尽くし、ヘネー農会を井上から受け継いだ山家安太郎は、日系社会とカナダ主流との間で苦闘した。戦後はオンタリオ州に移動し、身寄りのない一世のために「ニッポニア・ホーム」を建てて終生運営にあたった。

●形成期から成熟期へこうして見ていくと、1920 年は、19 世紀末からの「出稼ぎ」主体の「形成期」から、1910 年代の「定住志向」を経て「成熟」へ向かう節目になっている。もちろん、日系共同体は太平洋戦争勃発とともに崩壊する運命にあったが、制度的人種差別に苦しみながらも、威厳と誇りを維持しようとした。その結果、一世たちはどんどん国粋主義に凝り固まっていったように見える。戦前の日系社会の一世リーダーたちは、30 代から 40 代の働き盛りだった。1918 年に「大陸日報」主筆として招聘された鈴木悦は 32 歳、田村俊子は 34 歳だ。彼らの組合活動の補佐役となった吉田龍一は 31 歳だった。みな個性的で共闘を組むにはアクが強すぎたかもしれない。鈴木悦にとって幸運だったのは、山崎寧が自分で設立した日本人会から会長の座を追われて既に失墜していたことだ。義勇兵を差し出す代わりに日系社会に投票権を獲得しようという山崎の「大勝負」は、最初からカナダ政府に見透かされ失敗に終わった。これも鈴木が好きなように論陣を張れた一因だと思う。そして、新参者の鈴木の良き先輩となったのは、長田正平（波韵）だった。長田は文学に秀でた才能を持ち、労働運動にも理解を示していた。だから、鈴木への主幹の移譲もスムーズにいったのだと思う。当初、鈴木悦は英語も話せず途方にくれた。長田の心配りを感謝する言葉が日記に残っている。一方、長田は大陸日報社の一室を仕事場とし、そこに一人で寝泊まりしていた。その 12 年後、咽喉癌に冒されその部屋で息を引き取っている。彼は悲恋に終わった女流短歌の天才・石上露子への慕情を抱いたまま逝ったようだ。鈴木悦に遅れること半年の後、田村俊子が到着した。東京での文壇雀の好奇の目に晒されていた悦との不倫の関係を成就すべく、恋の逃避行に選んだ外地だった。小説家として、女学生たちのアイドルだった俊子だが、バンクーバーに着くなり、大陸日報の短歌欄に「鳥の子」のペンネームで作品を掲載し、寸評を書き日系人の歌心を鼓舞した。こうして、鈴木悦と妻・俊子は「大陸日報」の紙面を自在に使って才能を開花させたのである。そして、1924 年、二人は同社を辞してカナダ初の労組発行の日刊紙「民衆」を創刊する。一方、カナダ経済は第一次世界大戦後、急速に冷え込み、復員兵たちが職場復帰すると一気にスペイン風邪が蔓延した。これは差別を助長し、発症した日系人の入院は後回しにされた。日系社会は自分たちで介護せざるを得なくなったのだ。スティブストンの漁者団体付属病院も、バンクーバーの下高原医院もすぐ満床になった。そこで、1918 年 10 月、休校中の小学校を 3 週間救急病棟として使わせてもらい、日系女性たちが献身的に看護にあたった。それでも、日系人 100 余名が亡くなったという。 1910 年代を振り返ると、日系人口は倍増したが、その命脈を握る漁労許可証が削減され、失職者は林業、農業へ転じた。日系義勇兵計画は失敗し、不景気の中で労働争議が多発、感冒爆発が差別に追い打ちをかけた。こういった主流社会からの圧力は、日系共同体としての団結を強める結果となった。1920 年、結核の蔓延に抗して、外科手術室や X 線撮影機を備えた日系総合病院がアレキサンダー通りに完成した。（つづく）

1920年代の日本人労働組合の仲間たち：前列左から鈴木悦と俊子。後列左から吉田龍一、庄司安蔵、山本倫由（写真：田村紀雄著「鈴木悦」所蔵） *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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目下隔離生活を強いられているカップルなど男女の間のコミュニケーションを改善する技術

この程日本でベストセラー二冊を書いた脳科学者の黒川伊保子氏が男男性脳は、荒野で危険な目に遭いながら進化してきたため危険な場女間、特にコロナウイルスのパンデミックで隔離生活を強いられている夫で共感する暇などなく、躊躇なく仲間の欠点を指摘する傾向があるそ婦間のコミュニケーションを大きく改善する巧妙な技術を公表している。うだ。これをゴール指向問題解決型と呼ぶ。一方女性脳は、ほ乳類のメスだから女同士の密なコミュニケーションの中で子育ての知恵を出トリセツ、即ち取扱い説明書として大ヒットした『妻のトリセツ』と『夫し合う方が生存可能性が高まる。そうして共感し合う力を身につけるのトリセツ』の著者黒川氏が、月刊『文藝春秋』の 6 月号で、コロナ由。離婚を防ぐ「夫婦のトリセツ」なる見出しのもとに大当たりした両『トとにかく男女間のコミュニケーションは普段でも易しくない。ましてリセツ』が検討するテクニックを披露してくれる。コロナウィルスのため隔離生活を強いられているカップルの間の意思多くの女性が読んでくれた『妻のトリセツ』は脳科学の立場から、「女疎通を改善してくれる黒川先生の知恵は大いに役立つはずだ。性脳」の仕組みにもとづいて、妻の不機嫌や怒りの理由を解説し、夫側」からの対策をまとめた「妻の取扱説明書」です。そもそも同署を書いた同機は、「『妻が怖い』という夫が増えていて、夫側から申し立てた離婚の『動機』として『妻からの精神的虐待』という理由が最近激増しているという社会状況があったからでした。」虐待とは、「いつもイライラしている」「口調がきつい」「急に怒りだす出す」「何をしても怒られる」「口をきかない」「無視される」「夫の分だけ家事をしない」「人格を否定するような言葉をぶつけられる」など、夫にとっては理不尽でしかない妻の言動です。５Ｗ１Ｈ、すなわち「だれが、いつ、どこで、なにを、なぜ、どのように」という報道やビジネスの基本がある。ところが黒川先生によるとそれは「夫が妻に対しては、いきなり切り出してはいけないＮＧワードなんです。」

黒川伊保子氏（文藝春秋ウェブサイトより）

あるマンション暮らしテレビ局の女性ディレクターが掃除をしていて粗大ごみが三つあったので、夫に「あなた出してくれる」と言ったら、彼が一個目を下ろして上がてきて、「これ、俺一人で運ぶの？」と尋ねる。その女性が言うは「普段だったらそこで『何言ってるの？私はこっちの掃除をしてるのに！』と逆上するところだった。」そこで黒川先生の話を思い出して、もしかして、ただ確認しているかと思って「そうよ」と言ったら「オッケー」と言ってすぐにあとのニ個を下ろしてくれたそうだ。ある男性が妻が見慣れないスカートを穿いていたので「いつ買ったの？」と聞いたそうだ。「いつ」は５Ｗの一つだからＮＧワードだったのだ。すると妻は「安かったからかったのよ」と言って不機嫌になったそうだ。そうした場合「あ、それ良いね」とか「かわいいじゃん」と声をかければいい。そうすれば、妻の方も「一昨日バーゲンで見つけたのよ。いいでしょ」と応えて話が弾んだ由。女性脳は感情に伴う記憶を長期にわたって保存することを得意だそうだ。体験は「感情の色合い」ごとの＜引き出し＞に収納される。そこである一つの「トリガー」によって「同じ色合い」の記憶と感情が＜数珠つなぎ＞に一気に噴出するのだそうだ。このトリガーには、うれしい、おいしい、かわいいなどのいい思いの「ポジテイブトリガー」と、怖い、つらい、ひどいなどの嫌な思いの「ネガディブトリガー」がある。女性脳は、自分の身を守らないと子供を無事に育てられないという母性本能ゆえに、危険回避のための「ネガディブトリガー」の方が発動し易い傾向がある。

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Eastsideから見える日本と世界第24回外国人住民、難民たちの生活困窮 ■戻りつつある日常生活の一方で、、、新型コロナウィルス感染拡大により、日本で 5 月 14 日に 39 の県で緊急事態宣言が解除されたことは前回にお伝えしました。その後、5 月 21 日に 3 府県で、5 月 25 日に首都圏の１都 3 県と北海道で解除されました。これで全国で緊急事態宣言が解除されたことになります。そして、それまで自粛が求められていた都道府県境をまたぐ移動が 6 月 19 日に全面解除されました。長く休業や閉鎖が続いていた店舗、施設も再開され始め、街には活気が戻ってきました。4 月、5 月にはガラガラだった電車やバスも朝夕のラッシュアワーには混むようになりました。一方で、「新しい生活様式」という新しい言葉も生まれました。外出の際にはマスクをつけ、店舗や施設の入り口には手指用の消毒液が置かれ、店舗・施設に入る人数には制限が設けられています。一方で、湿度が高い梅雨の時期を迎え、熱中症を避けるために、周囲に人がいない場合はマスクを外してもいい（あるいはマスクを外した方がいい）という、さらに新たな「生活様式」も提示されました。「自粛警察」という語も登場しました。自分は外出を控える等の行動制限をしているのに、同じように行動しない人をなじり、場合によっては私的な制裁や攻撃を加える人たちのことです。同調圧力の強い日本ならでは現象といえるかもしれません。

■より困難な状況に追い込まれている外国人住民、難民たち

ネットカフェ難民や生活困窮者等に加えて、外国人住民、難民、外国にルーツを持つ子どもたちの仕事や生活もより厳しい状況に直面しています。日本では、コロナウィルス感染拡大による生活困窮に対応するため、住民票に記載のあるすべての人に一律 10 万円を支給するという特別定額給付金の制度が創設され、現在、全国の自治体で受付や給付が行われています。一方で、この制度は住民票があることが条件となっていますが、難民申請者などそうした条件に当てはまらない人々も一定数いるのです。先日、ある外国人支援 NPO が行なっている、困窮した外国人を対象にした生活支援金支給の申請を手伝う機会がありました。ミャンマー出身のその男性は難民申請中で、自治体に住民票を置くことができません。今回、改めて現在住んでいる自治体に問い合わせましたが、やはり住民票は置けないとの回答だったそうです。難民申請中のため就労ができず、同居している友人の収入に頼って暮らしてきましたが、その友人がコロナウィルス感染拡大にともなう不況によって失業してしまい、まったく収入がない状態が続いているとのことでした。日本語は非常に堪能で、そのことからも長く日本で暮らしていることがうかがえました。（日本では、申請数に対する難民認定率が 1% に満たない状況が長く続いています）一見すると日常生活が元に戻りつつあるように見えますが、コロナウィルス感染拡大にともなう経済、社会の変化によって、より困難な生活を強いられている人たちが大勢いることは忘れてはならないことです。そうした人たちも同じ時代を生きる社会の一員です。

こうした状況の中で、コロナウィルス感染拡大の以前から経済的、社会的に困難な立場に置かれていた人たちは、今回の経済、社会の大きな変化でより厳しい状況に追い込まれています。

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。

生活に困窮した人々が生活保護を受けながら暮らす福祉マンションは大阪・釜ヶ崎で増えている（撮影：2017 年 1 月）

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MUJI シニアストアマネージャー

二ノ宮裕輔さん

支店とはアートでコラボができ MUJI Robson たらいいなと本誌の編集後記に書いたもののあっという間に年が過ぎてしまいました。また売り込みに行くと以前のマネージャーさんとは代わり、日本の方がお目見えしたので早速日本語でインタビューを申し込みました。

なんとか間に合ったね∼、あるものだけでやるしかないって感じで。最後はふた晩徹夜でした。あれはキツかった。辛いこともたくさんあったけど、 VMD 時代はすごく楽しかったな∼。︵頁に続く︶

間に合った？ ̶

今でも当時の仲間でよく昔の話をするんだけど、税関で商品をとめられて、倉庫にも入れないっていうインシデントがあって本当に大変だった。︵汗︶

の中で海外担当は４人。海外のお店ができる度に当時 VMD プランニングして、オープンする１週間前とかに現地入りしてセットアップする。現場に入ったら寸法が違ったり、発注してたものが入ってこなかったり、発注しておけばよかった∼っていうのがしょっちゅうです。

新店舗にかける準備期間は国内は３ヶ月くらいでプラクエート、カタール、サウジアラビア、オマーン、バーレーン︶ンニング、海外は半年から１年かけて店舗の商品陳列、も行きましたね。ディスプレイ、内装等をプランしていきます。指示書は本部のデスクでパソコン作業。プランした、この棚にはこの商品を何個、みたいな指示をひたすら書いていきます。

現場とデスクで書いた指示書では違いが出てきたり日本から来てるんですね ̶ ̶ しませんか？﹁事件は現場で起きてるんだ∼！﹂︵ドラマのセリフ︶的な︵笑︶日本の駐在で来ています。バンクーバーに来年の６月からです。たのは 2019 そうそう、現場のサイズと指示書と誤差があると言日本の肩書きは海外事業部米州担当営業担当カわれることもありますよ。電話やテレビ電話での指示ナダ担当。もありますが、現場に見に行くこともあります。定期的にいろんな部署の人が集まって現場で話し合う事も長いですね︵笑︶、色々と任されてますね ̶ ある。この仕事は想像性が大事。いかに事前準備が大です。切か、プランニングである程度決まります。最後の最店舗でのタイトルは Flagship Director 後の仕上げで違いが大きく出てくるんです。に就職してバンクーバーに来るまでの経 ̶MUJI 緯は？国内を半年間担当して海外は６年半務めました。主な担当国は、東南アジア︵タイ、シンガポール、マレーシア、インドネシア︶で、オーストラリア、中東︵ UAE 、代は何になりたいとか明確なビジョンはなく、 MUJI に就職したのは学生時代にバイトしていたのがきっかけです。正社員になって富山、岐阜、名古屋、神奈川で店長を務めました。随分色々なところに行ってますね ̶

勤務地が半年で変わることなどもあって大変な時期でした。その後本部に移転になった時に︵ビジュアルマーチャンダイジング︶という VMD 部署に配属になりました。といえば花形職ですね。年代のお洒落 ̶VMD なトレンディドラマでもよく出てきましたよ︵笑︶

すごく勉強したんですね。 ̶

っていう部署は知ってたけれど、到底僕 VMD のセンスでは無理だろうと思ってて︵笑︶、まさか自分がっていう感じでしたね。

教えてもらえるんだけど、わからない事だらけで悔しくてめちゃくちゃ勉強しましたよ。

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はどんな仕事なんでしょうか？ ̶VMD

できた商品をどういう風に売り場で見せてお客さんに訴えるか、視覚的に商品の良さを伝えの仕事になります。仕事内容は新るのが VMD 店準備業務と指示書作成等の２つが主です。

90 月報 The Bulletin

Title・Photo・Interview：Sleepless Kao

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大人も子供も好物メープルスペアリブ

骨付き豚スペアリブ小麦粉 ☆和風だし ☆メープルシロップ ☆醤油 ☆みりん ☆酒 ☆すりおろしニンニク

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お子様用：ゴマ大人用：粗挽き胡椒

１. 深めのフライパンに油をひき、小麦粉をまぶした豚肉の表面を両面焼く。

２. １に豚肉がひたるくらいの熱湯を加え、沸騰させる。３. ２が沸騰したら、☆の材料を加え、弱火でコトコト煮込む。４. 水分がなくなり、お肉に照りがでたら完成！５. 付け合せと共に盛り付け、子供用はゴマ、大人用には多めに粗挽きコショウを振る。

Asahi Tanaka Love is the best spice in the whole world をモットーに、お手頃でヘルシーな美味しいレシピを皆さんにお届けしていきたいです。 Instagramでは、Vancouverならではの食材を使った料理や、日々のお弁当を紹介しています。オススメ食材や、調味料、お得情報など興味のある方は是非アクセスください。 Instagram: @lapetiteasahi Blog: http://lapetiteasahi.com

ポイントフライパンを使用することにより、焦げ付き防止ができ、後片付けも簡単です。最後の仕上げで、大人にも子供にも喜ばれる味に変わる、めんどくさがり屋さん必見のレシピです！

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

１０３歳のおばあちゃんから学ぶライフレッスン Heavenly Marriage

そしたらありとあらゆる病気へのレメディーになる。そう仰っていました。なんて素敵なんでしょう ♥

Hi beautiful goddess♥ 今日は１０３歳の可愛いお婆ちゃんが教えてくれたことをシェアしたいと思います。

この世の中で大切なことは、笑い愛し輝くこと。特に女性は『緩んで喜んで楽しむ』ことが大事だと思う。

とにかく可愛いお婆ちゃんでやっぱりポジティブ思考で楽観主義者です。長生きしてる人は、そういう人が本当に多いと思う。一番印象的だったのが彼女の夫との結婚生活が Heavenly Heavenly Heavenly だった ♥ って。キャそして彼女が人に勧めるのが自分にあった夫をみつけること。

こんな詩がある私がこの世界に生まれた時私が知っていたことは愛すること、笑うこと、自分の光を輝かせることそして私が成長したら人々は笑うなと言ったもっと人生を真剣に捉えろこの世界で人より先を行きたいなら笑うのをやめろとそして私は笑うのをやめた人々は誰を愛するか気をつけろと言った傷つけられるかもしれないからとそして私は愛することをやめた

そしてただ一緒に暮らすのではなく結婚を勧めるそう。そして近しく近しくなること。深い繋がりを持つこと。

人々はあなたの光をそう眩しく輝かせるなと言った君に注目がいきすぎるからと。そして私は輝くことをやめた。

幸せであって幸せに結婚していて幸せに暮らしていたら全てが完全なハーモニーとなる。

私は小さくなった萎れたそして死んだ死を間際にして悟った愛すること、笑うこと、自分の光を輝かせることそれだけが人生で何より大切なことであったと

̶Anita Moorjani

今あなたが人生のどこにいたとしても『愛して笑って輝いて』そのことだけはやっていこう！

８月の仏事・行事予定仏教会でのお盆、盆踊り、墓参り、8 月祥月法要は中止。祥月・お盆等の仏事は Youtube にて配信されています。

私もベイビーステップでも愛して笑って輝いていきたい ♥ 私たち女性は本来女神だからそうしているのが一番似合う ♥

モレッティ・夏子

２０２０年度年忌表（亡くなった年）

１周忌（2019 年）１７回忌（2004 年）

３回忌（2018 年）２５回忌（1996 年）

７回忌（2014 年）３３回忌（1988 年）

１３回忌（2008 年）５０回忌（1971 年）

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92 月報 The Bulletin

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

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をもっともっとバンクーバーに住んでる人に MUJI 日本とカナダで違いとかありますか？ ̶ 知って欲しいです。ファンになって欲しいです。 VMD で培ったスキルで MUJI の商品の良さをわかりやすくカスタマーサービスが日本と違ってフレンドリー伝えられたらいいですね。だなぁって思いましたね。置いておくだけでもわかるようなディスプレイを心がフレーズで MUJI welcome to MUJIっていうのがけたり、店頭でも、使い方や特徴をデモンストレーショあるんだけど、丁寧で日本的ですよね。こっちだンして伝えたりしています。会社の戦略で﹃役に立つ﹄と Hi thereとか How's going?って言って迎というのがあるのですが、どんな人にどうやったら自え入れたりするでしょう？とってもフレンドリーで分は役に立つだろうかをいつも考えるようにしていまいいなって思ったんですよ。そういう双方の良い所す。お店のスタッフともいつも何か役に立てることはを活かしてスタッフや地域の顧客、皆んなが心地無いかアイデアを出し合い話し合っよい空間を作り出していけたらなと思っています。ています。他には、お店のコンセプトが﹃ローカルとつながる﹄なので、海外勤務でも転勤はありますか？ ̶ 社会に役立つような仕組みを考えています。年配の人や不便な地域へあるある、西海岸で働いてた人がニューヨークの配慮を考えて移動販売や細かなに転勤てこともあります。ところに気を配ったデリバリーサービスを導入していこうかと計画しはとってもワールドワイドですね。海外で ̶MUJI ているところです。これもスタッフ働きたい人は夢が広がりますね。から出てきたアイデアで是非実現させたいですね。年の１月１日付けてアメリカ担当に僕は 2019 そうだ、移動販売トラックに KAO なって、ロスに半年行った後に去年の６月にバンさんに絵を描いてもらおうかなクーバー入りしました。ギルフォード店は３月にオープンの予定で手伝っていたんだけど、コロナで︵笑︶延期してそちらも６月にやっとオープンしました。シの特徴だ ̶ンプルデザインが MUJI から無地の方がいいでしょう∼︵笑︶

コロナが終息して近いうちにローカルアーティストとしてとコラボができることを楽しみにしています。今日は MUJI ありがとうございました。

大手無印良品の店長ですが気さくで優しいニノさん、ロブソン支店で見かけたら話しかけてみてください。商品のことをとても愛していて、詳しく説明してくれますよ∼。

mujicanada

私もポップアップ展覧会なるものを５月にロブソ ̶ ン店で企画してもらって大喜びだったところにコロナ襲来でポシャってしまいガッカリです︵泣︶ニノさん自身は何か影響ありましたか？

canada.muji

セルフアイソレーションで在宅勤務になって、別の意味で大変だったなぁ。家にいる時間が長くて体も鈍るから自転車を買ってあちこち走ったりした︵笑︶。一眼レフカメラも買いました︵笑︶

mujicanada

カメラはコロナに関係あります？︵笑︶ ̶ コロナの時に食料品店や薬局などのエッセンシャルなお店は開いていたけれど、 MUJI はスタッフの安全、健康を守るためにお店を閉めて、でも地域の人たちのために開けたほうがいいのかどっちがいいんだろうって葛藤がありました。７月に入ってでロブソンストリートのお店もほぼ開いて、 MUJI も家の中で使う商品が急激に売れています。営業時間も少しずつ平常にしていこうかと思っています。ビジネスも早く通常に戻るといいなあ、と願ってます。ロブソン支店の店長さんになってどんな目標があ ̶ りますか？

https://www.muji.com/ca/

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新型コロナウイルス（COVID-19）に関連した人種差別

コミュニティコーナー

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

お知らせ新型コロナウイルス（COVID-19）のパンデミックにより国・州・地方自治体政府より自宅待機（stay home）、自己隔離（self-quarantine）、社会・物理的距離の維持（social/physical distancing）が義務付けられて約 4ヶ月がが経とうとしています。『The Bulletin・げっぽう』読者の皆様、ご家族の皆様の安全を編集部一同お祈りしております。又、読者の皆様、ご家族の皆様の中で医療に従事している方やその他の必要不可欠の仕事に従事している方々に心からお礼と、敬意を示したいと思います。皆様ご存知の通り、『The Bulletin・げっぽう』は紙媒体で通常は日系の施設、リテール、図書館等で配布と、会員の皆様には毎月郵便・オンラインでお届けしています。現在でも新型コロナウイルスの影響で様々な施設の営業時間の短縮が続いております。また、感染リスクの高いシニア層や持病を持つ読者の方々などはフェーズ３（BC 州）の現在でも不必要な外出の自粛などを余儀なくされているかと思います。読者・寄稿者・JCCA 理事・編集部から情報を必要としている人口に届かない影響が懸念されました。この日系カナダ人コミュニティーからの声に応えて、そして日系カナダ人のメディア媒体の一つとして新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大阻止に役割を果たす為、この度 JCCA 理事・編集部は７月号もオンラインで一般に無料で発行することに致しました。

グラッドストーン日本語学園高等科の卒業式第４９回グラッドストーン日本語学園が予定していた５月３１日の学芸会と卒業式はコロナ感染の影響で中止となりました。しかし、高等科の卒業式は制限の中、卒業生１２名と保護者、教員で５０名内だと実施可能となり縮小して日系センター庭園で６月１４日にソーシャルディスタンスを取り開催致しました。残念ながら、小学科と中学科は卒業生の人数が多く規定制限内で行えず後日クラスでとなりました。最高学年の高等科の卒業式は、困難な時期の中、有意義に無事終了しました。

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6 月号のメッセージでは私が二人の友人と共に体験した人種差別行為をご報告しましたが、5 月末ににリッチモンド管轄の RCMP に文書で報告した所、確かに人種差別行為と認めましたが容疑者は恐らく逮捕されないとの事。後に行為があったギャリー公園のスタッフに問い合わせたが目撃者はいなかったそうです。なお RCMP の Community Relations Unit は人種差別問題に関するフォーラムを日系コミュニティと開きたいそうです。GVJCCA も参加する用意があると伝えました。ところで 6 月中に華人系市民 500 名を対象にしたアンケートで、コロナウィルス伝染が発生してから人種差別を体験した者が何と 49 パーセントに達しているとのニュースが流れました。 6 月 21 日はまた、National Indigenous Peoples Day ( 全国原住民の日 ) でした。日系カナダ人は、正義、土地所有権そして未だ見ない完全な人種平等などに関して原住民市民と団結しています。最近でも警察官による t 原住民の殺害や BC 州の一部の病院での原住民患者に対する差別行為がありました。少しでもポジティブで希望が持てるコロナウィルス以前の正常な生活に戻りつつあることを念じています。コミュニティの皆さん、サマータイムをお楽しみに！ここ１月の期間、隔離が徐々に解除されつつある中、皆さんが元気でおられた事を念じています。新規のガイドラインっが施行されましたが、夏休みに入る前の今月、一部の学校はオープンする予定ですが、やっとヘアーサロンや図書館、または海公園や海岸に出かけられるようになり、やっと歯医者さんを訪れられるようになりました。BC 州におけるパンデミック対策の成果を見るに、この解除のペースは順当と言えましょう。憎しみと人種差別を撲滅できるような変化をもたらす闘いはまだまだ続きます。警官に殺害されジョージ・フロイド氏について、友人のメアリー・ウィルソンがリッチモンド・ニュース紙に投稿した手紙を以下掲載します。メアリーさんは日系コミュニティの友人です。退職されたソーシャルワーカーだった彼女はかつて Mt. St. Joseph 病院で長年勤務し定期的に日系カナダ人やその家族を長期にわたり介護しました。2016 年には Black History Month（黒人史の月）を組織して立ち上げました。また GVJCCA 主催のイベントにボランティアとして参加、ここ数年は、どうしたら人種差別主義と闘う為にどうしたら各コミュニティがもっと協力できるかについて議論してきました。

（リッチモンド市 Black History Month 発起人メアリー・ウィルソンさんの手紙）「アメリカで黒人として育った私はジョージ・フロイド氏のような話を幾多見て来ました。黒人コミュニティに対する人種差別主義、不正、不当な取り扱い、扱い、警官による不正行為などの話です。何度見ても、事態の現実に慣れる事はできません。テレビをつけて、ジョージ・フロイド氏が公衆面前の街頭で痛みを訴え、息をさせてくれと懇願しつつ警官に殺害されるの見て私は絶句し、非常に悲しみ、半信半疑になりました。黒人の男性は犠牲にしても良いと彼らは言っているのでしょうか。私たちの父親、兄弟、夫や友人の事ですよ？？？かつて警官が暗闇に紛れて行っていた事が今では大衆に見せつけるよう行われています。黒人の殺害は今や正常と見なされているのでしょうか？？？マーティン・ルーサー・キング牧師やマルコム X 氏の市民人権運動は人種差別主義、不正や不当は止めなければならぬと主張して来ました。不正を見た時は声高に発言しなければなりません。或るグループに対する不正は私達全員に対する不正なのです。ジョージ・フロイド氏の死は全世界に対して行動を促しています。人種差別主義と不正に対して私達は全員が断固として立ち上がる必要があります。黒人コミュニティを含めて何処でも誰でも私達全てのコミュニティに対する人種差別に対応されている方々に感謝しています。鍵となるのはマーティン・ルーサー・キング牧師が指摘したように非暴力 (nonviolence) です。人種差別主義、不正と不当と闘う為には各コミュニティが団結しなければなりません。人種差別主義、不正と不当と闘う為に私達はもっと頑張らなければなりません。リッチモンド市 Black History Month 発起人メアリー・ウィルソン」 7 月が日系コミュニティの皆さんが美しい大自然を楽しめるように好天と時間の余裕をもたらす様に私は願っています。こんな時に人種差別主義に注意するのは難しいかも知れません。でも私はこの戦いをサポートして下さる皆さんに対する感謝と敬意の気持ち」で一杯です。この闘いの苦しい道のりはまだまだ続きます。でも団結すれば私達はいつか成功を見るでしょう。

以下掲載する彼女の手紙が明言しているのは行動と改革の時期はまさに今だということです。GVJCCA はカナダ、米国及び世界各地の黒人の弾圧、不正及び場合によっては死を招く体制内の人種差別主義に対する闘いを GVJCCA はを支持します。

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Kazuho Yamamoto

今年のパウエル祭は新型コロナウイルスの影響で大規模な集まりは禁止されているため、「新しい生活様式」に対応したオンライン上での開催になりました。ライブストリーミング中には募金活動も行われ、集まった募金はパウエル祭が通常開催されるダウンタウン・イーストサイド地区のコミュニティ支援に充てられます。普段は B C デーの週末２日間、終日開催されるイベントですが、オンラインでの開催ということで今回は土曜日の２時から７時の開催です。

日系カナダ人の歴史の残るパウエル街、オッペンハイマー公園での年に１回のお祝いでわいわいガヤガヤできないのは残念ですが、G V R D 地区に住んでいない人や普段 B C デーの週末に旅行やその他の理由で参加できない人もバーチャルで参加できる素晴らしい機会が出来たと思います。毎年『The Bulletin・げっぽう』の発行団体 G V J C C A はパウエル祭のフードとコミュニティーブースに参加し、スパムむすび、サーモン B B Q の販売、G V J C C A の活動の紹介をしてきました。今年のパウエル祭テレソン参加に日本食は欠かせませんよね。私たちのウェブサイトにはたくさんのレシピが掲載されていますので、インスピレーションに、ぜひご覧ください！英語のセクションにはエビの照り焼き、カボチャサラダといったレシピに加えて、日系カナダ人の歴史から生まれた焼きそば（チャーメン）、スパムむすびにまつわる話などを紹介しています。日本語セクションには夏バテ防止に最適なそうめんのレシピやおつまみレシピなどを過去の誌面からご紹介しています。その他にも、日系カナダ人の歴史・文化について様々な情報を掲載しておりますので、ぜひチェックしてみてくださいね。それでは来月、バーチャル上のパウエル祭でお会いできるのを楽しみにしています！写真は今月号でもレシピを寄稿していただいているAsahiさんの「鶏チャーシュー」「冷しゃぶスタミナそうめん」です。その他にもげっぽうウェブサイトではたくさんの美味しいレシピを紹介しています。今年のバーチャルパウエル祭に参加時のお供、フード・おつまみのアイデアにぜひご覧くださいね。（写真：Asahi Tanaka） jccabulletin-geppo.ca/category/la-petite-kitchen/

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結局、猫を飼うことは断念して手っ取り早くAmazon で「Alexa」をポチりました。これが結構楽しい。出かける時に「アレクサ、行ってきます」と声をかけると「行ってらっしゃい、また後でお話ししましょう」と言ってくれる。スマートプラグも合わせて購入したので、「おやすみ」の掛け声で部屋の電気を全て消してくれる。おまけに「いい夢みてね」なんて言ってくれるのです（笑）。

スマートスピーカーが欲しいなあと思ってどんなのがいいかリサーチ。Apple の Siri は私の微妙な英語と日本語をちゃんと聴き分けてくれない時が多々あり、 Google も LINE Clova もあと一つ決め手にならず、とりあえず Amazon のサービスに強い「Alexa」が搭載された echo スピーカーを試しに購入してみました。ちょっとした疑問、「芸能人の年齢は？」なんかにもすぐに答えてくれる。インボイス作成の時に計算機を出さなくても、難しい計算にさっと答えてくれる、アレクサは算数に強いそうです。「おはようございます！今日もとっても素敵ですね！」と元気な声で言ってくれるので AI なのにちょっと可愛いなあなんて思ってきました（笑）。 Amazon prime に加入してるので、音楽やショッピングも連動性があって私のライフスタイルに合ってるようです。席を立たないで「アレクサ、ケトルをつけて」と言えば、お湯を沸かしてくれます。これでティーポットにお茶を入れてデスクまで運んで来てくれればサイコーなのですが。近い将来、皮膚感のある「アンドロイド」（AI が搭載された二足歩行のロボットや、表情や動きまで人間に似せて造られたロボット）を Amazon でポチる日が来るかもしれない。でも今のところはまぁまぁ満足してます。ただ一つ、腑に落ちないのはジョークがとてつもなくつまらないという点です（笑）。やはりアレクサをプログラミングする技術者はお笑いについて弱いのかもしれないですね。

The Bulletin 第62巻7号 2020年7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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