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A Mother & Daughter’s Journey by Grace Eiko Thomson, Part III 2 Bulletin Interview: Sharon Minemoto 6

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BC Redress: Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness Fund 10

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A MOTHER & DAUGHTER’S JOURNEY BY

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THOMSON PART THREE by John Endo Greenaway

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One day a number of years ago, while Grace Eiko Thomson was visiting her 84-yearold mother in the care home where she was living, her mother handed her a small booklet with the title Journal. The book, written in Japanese, began with the date, March 1, 1997. Grace read the first page of what appeared to be a diary out loud, after which her mother smiled and took the book back. Several years later, Grace’s mother handed her the booklet back to her and said, “It’s finished.” Grace scanned the book, then put it away and didn’t give it much thought until a few years later, when her mother began to experience health issues. Grace discovered within herself not only an urgency to reread the journal/memoir but to excavate her own memories from her early years growing up with her family, along with the complicated relationship the two shared during difficult times. As she writes in the introduction to her new book, Chiru Sakura, Falling Cherry Blossoms, a Mother and Daughter’s Journey through Racism, Internment and Oppression, “I did not begin translating her memoir until after she passed. And it was in rereading it that I began realizing how generational differences affect interpretation of those years, the many years of struggle each of us, together and apart, had lived and endured. I decided then to complete the journey began by mother, each of us finding our own resolution.” The resulting book, published by Caitlin Press, is an affecting read. Sawae (née Yamamoto) Nishikihama’s writing is interspersed with Grace’s own writing, providing a twin narrative covering two lifetimes, from the 1920s up to the present day. In the March and May 2021 issues of The Bulletin I talked with Grace about her life up until the end of her marriage in 1982. In the third and final part of our discussion we carry on from where we left off.

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GRACE EIKO THOMSON PART THREE

We left off last month with your acceptance to the University of Manitoba School of Art in 1973 and the profound affect that had on your life. We also talked about the impact your mother’s art practice had one you, even though she was never referred to as an artist. After studying for two years at UBC, you returned to Winnipeg in 1982 and informed your husband and two sons that you were leaving the marriage and the family, to continue, as you say, your journey “toward self-realization.” This literally marked a new chapter in your life as you threw yourself headlong into your art practice. Your job as assistant director/curator at the University of Manitoba School of Art’s Gallery 1.1.1 opened up the world to you, literally, as you were able to spend time in Europe as well as major American cities. At the same time, it opened up your eyes in a different way, through your introduction to Inuit art.

Grace in Winnipeg, ca. 1983.

EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK: It was during this time that I was offered an eye-opening experience that forced me to look beyond the personal issues I had been obsessed with. Soon after Gallery 1.1.1. hired me, I was invited to act as an art advisor to the Inuit printmakers of the Sanavik Co-operative in Baker Lake, then in the Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). A new friend, the photographer William Eakin, recommended me for the position he was leaving, and he took me to Baker Lake and introduced me to the co-operative’s manager, Thomas Iksiraq. Taking this position meant that I would fly to Baker Lake, about 1,600 kilometers due north of Winnipeg, two or three times a year for a few days to advise the co-operative on the choice of drawings for its annual print collection to be offered to the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council. Meeting the Inuit artists and their families was an emotional experience for me. Looking into their faces I felt related to them. I spent many happy hours at the cooperative learning about distinguished artists such as Luke Anguhadluq, Jessie Oonark, William Noah and Marian Tuu’luq and meeting Simon Tookoome, Ruth Annaqtuusi Tulurialik, Janet and Hannah Kigusiuq, Victoria Mamnguseualuk and others, becoming acquainted with their incredible artwork of drawings prints and wall hangings. I spent many hours with Thomas Iksiraq, the respected manager. I had the privilege, too, of being introduced to this region and exploring its empty (though full) landscapes, covered with snow or with moss depending on the season. There were no trees, but I was surprised to find blueberries on low-lying bushes, frozen in the snow. I remember being invited one bright, early spring evening to join friends who were gathering to close down the shelters over the fishing holes they had created on frozen Baker Lake, getting ready for the change in season. These are only a few of the many incredible experiences I was privileged to take part in. However, in working and meeting with the Canadian governments Eskimo Arts Council, I realized that while a major industry of Inuit art was flourishing in the South, with drawings, prints and stone sculptures bought and sold by collectors and exhibited in galleries

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and museums, and with Inuit art history being taught among University courses, the displaced Inuit communities of artists and their families I met and saw in Baker Lake were living with their future still at risk, their art controlled by decisions made by the council. The Eskimo Arts Council jury members made the final decisions as to which stone cut prints (as well as woodcuts, a method that have been introduced by the southern artists, in particular a Japanese immigrant printmaking artist/ instructor, Noboru Sawai) were worthy of receiving the council’s seal to become part of the annual collection of prints sold in the South. The prints that did not meet with the council’s approval were ordered to be destroyed. I was shocked when he discovered this, and before I left my advisory position, I spoke against this methodology as colonial, unfair to the Left to right: Thomas Shoyama, Grace Eiko Thomson, Midge Ayukawa artists and printmakers, and suggested that the prints rejected by the council jury be sold in the anese Canadian arts community, organizing Tsudoi/Gatherings: North to benefit the North. Japanese Canadians in the Arts and becoming involved in founding This excerpt tells me that your time in the North Asian Heritage Month with Jim Wong-Chu. What was it like for you, can’t help but have inﬂuenced you as a person both returning to the west coast, and becoming part of the arts and as an artist. Can you talk about the impact community here? It was at first not an easy move, since I knew only a couple of artists it had on you? This is a diffi cult subject to discuss. For me, the living in Vancouver, however, being asked to organize the gathering introduction to Inuit artists and to their work was of Japanese Canadian artists (Tsudoi/Gathering), for the first time in a totally new experience…I am not sure if things my art career I found myself introduced to Japanese Canadian artists, have changed, but at that time, I felt the displaced though my focus was as a curator for the Burnaby Art Gallery (1994). I Inuit families were living with little security into was very lucky through my work at the BAG to be introduced to (now their future, as southern business entrepreneurs the late) Jim Wong Chu, who had just begun the process of producwere already there, establishing economic control. ing Asian Heritage Month. Through him, I was introduced to various I felt I was not welcomed by them, working with the contacts he was making at that time. He was someone I admired Inuit Cooperative, controlled by the Canadian gov- very much as he was totally focused on achieving his aim, which he ernment’s Eskimo Arts Council. I felt that southern established, and which continues to this day (in fact, this month, May, business entrepreneurs were taking control over is Asian Heritage Month.) businesses as related to this community and wondered what their future was going to be. The next big change for you came in the late nineties, when you beI was well aware of cultural differences in art, as I had came involved in the planning for the Japanese Canadian National studied not only Western, but also both Japanese Museum (now the Nikkei National Museum). Suddenly shifting your and Chinese art history, however, it was in meeting focus from art to Japanese Canadian history and museum practice. with the artists and the place (NWT, now Nunavut) Having spent most of your adult life exploring the wider world of that left a huge impact on me into the future, how art and culture, did it feel like you were returning full circle in any minority groups are treated in a country led by white way, to the roots of family and community? In fact, I was very much interested in Asian Art History and had done supremacy dictated government. graduate studies in this field, so I felt great interest when I was asked by Frank Kamiya (then Board president) to research and to help inauAfter a year studying in Leeds, where you earned gurate the Japanese Canadian National Museum, soon appointed as a Master’s degree, and several years working in its founding Executive Director/Curator of the new museum focused Prince Albert Saskatchewan, you finally returned on Japanese Canadian national history. It opened on September 22, to the coast in 1994, in order to be closer to your 2000, with an exhibition I curated. I was very proud to be asked to form now-widowed mother. You took on the position this museum, which offers the younger and all future generations, the of curator with the Burnaby Art Gallery. You also, history of racism that once was part of Canada’s history, (hopefully) now during this time, began to engage with the Jap- erased. Into the future, my wish was for the museum to be a national

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I remember being invited one bright, early spring evening to join friends who were gathering to close down the shelters over the fishing holes they had created on frozen Baker Lake, getting ready for the change in season. These are only a few of the many incredible experiences I was privileged to take part in. I think it’s lovely how you wove your mother’s diary and your own memories into the first section of the book, It’s clear from the book that your mother was huge inﬂuence on you – an inﬂuence that imbued your life. What was it like for you to delve into your past in order to put this book together? This story was originally intended as Mother’s memoir to offer to my Just like you have done with everything in your family members…but after reading my mother’s memoir, I found myself life, you gave a lot of yourself in helping building adding my own thoughts and experiences, as from a younger generthis museum. I know you didn’t leave on the best ation’s points of view through these periods. terms or under ideal circumstances, but what is it you are most proud of in your work with the You’ve been a mentor to a lot of younger yonsei and gosei – what are you seeing in the next generation of activists? museum? I enjoyed mostly having had the privilege of curat- Since I began my career as an older woman (middle aged), and lived ing the three exhibitions, the inaugural one, titled through several generations, I was privileged to meet with and to Re-shaping Memory, Owning History: Through the work mostly with those younger, and much younger, than me, I was Lens of Japanese Canadian Redress, and the two also mentored by them, and they remain very precious in my long time I had already researched before I left the Museum experiences and memories. position: Levelling the Playing Field: Vancouver Asa- As a mother of two sons and grandma to five grandchildren, and now hi Baseball Team, and Shashin: Japanese Canadian a great grandma to a newly born great grandson, I have nothing to Photography before 1942. regret in my life, except at this time, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I one which not only tells this history, but moves to documenting the developmental journey of new generations including the new immigrants, sharing a country of people living in harmony.

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Sharon Minemoto Quartet Jazz Festival at Vancouver International

Cancelled in 2020, with COVID-19 shutting down much of the world, the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival returns in 2021, albeit in a revised format. The 35th annual Festival is presenting over 100 virtual events from June 25 to July 4, with plans for limited in-person attendance being developed, with a close eye kept on the reopening plans recently unveiled by the province. This year’s lineup includes artists from Vancouver and BC as well as international stars streaming from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, and Paris. There will also be free online workshops, club performances, and a continued partnership with North Shore Jazz. All streams are available to watch until midnight on July 6, 2021. The Festival also hosts nightly streams from Pyatt Hall and Frankie’s Jazz Club, described as the Festival’s home of all things straight-ahead, bebop, and modern jazz. Playing with her quartet on June 25 is Vancouver-based keyboardist/melodica player Sharon Minemoto. Described as a swinging and sensitive performer with a highly melodic style, she is also the composer of hip, original music that runs the gamut from introspective to funky, drawing wide-ranging influence from Herbie Hancock, Kenny Wheeler, Stevie Wonder, and Alexander Scriabin. Her sublime and tasteful quartet features Jon Bentley on saxophone, Darren Radtke on bass, and Bernie Arai on drums. I spoke with Sharon Minemoto by email shorty after plans were announced to reopen the province in stages.

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assignments on our own time, since we couldn’t always do “live” testing on Zoom, because of bad internet connections, etc. I felt bad for some of the students trying to “attend” classes on their phones but I was very impressed with how resilient most of our students were. The 2nd semester was much easier, as I had the hang of teaching online. It was a good “experiment”. Some of the benefits of teaching online include: – students are able to record the classes onto their computers I’m sitting here listening to some tracks from your – if a student isn’t feeling well, they can still attend the class and not album Safe Travels. It’s very tasty music and I’m get anyone else sick really enjoying it. It also reminds me how much I – sharing audio and video is easier than in the classroom in many ways. miss hearing music live. I feel like I should be sitting in a club with a glass of beer or whisky with This is the first time many of us are even entertaining the thought a good view of the band. Which brings us to live that live music can be a thing again. How are you feeling – are music. You’re a working musician – how has the you itching to get back on stage? Have you been able to plan on whole pandemic lockdown been for you? any tours? Thank you so much for your kind compliments! The I am cautious about re-entering the world. The weeks when we were lockdown has been ok for me. Not great, but ok. allowed to play some limited audience live gigs since the pandemic The thing I miss most is playing with other people, started, most musicians I work with were very careful. We would go but I’ve kept busy with my teaching at Vancouver outside before the gig, on breaks, and leave as soon as the gig was Community College, and I am fortunate enough to over. We wore masks when we played and kept our social distance. have done a few livestream gigs, and some live gigs I will continue to wear a mask indoors until I have my 2nd vaccine. when we were allowed. Yes, I would love to play gigs again, but health and the safety for I actually ended up getting Covid in March despite myself and others is more important. My mom lives at Nikkei Home, staying home except for grocery shopping, always and it was really stressful wondering if I would unknowingly give her wearing a mask and so much hand washing and hand (and subsequently, the other residents) Covid when I drove her to and sanitizing. I was lucky that I got through it OK. Having from medical appointments. Nikkei Home has done an outstanding said that, I want to stress that I am well aware that the job during the pandemic, and I’m sold on the idea that that is a good illness could’ve been so much worse and people still place for me to live in a few decades! need to be very careful. If you’ve had one vaccine, As for tours, I don’t know if anyone is planning tours or concert series you’re only 50% of the way there. yet. The 2021 Vancouver International Jazz Festival will happen on Last summer, my friend, Bill Coon, who is a great jazz a smaller scale, and that is a wonderful starting point to get back to guitarist, and I gave each other a weekly challenge playing. for a period of time. One week was recording a classical piece for each other, another week was composing a tune, and another week was reharmonizing a standard. It was a lot of fun, and it was wonderful to have a deadline to work towards. I was inspired by hearing what Bill came up with from week to week.

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In addition to being a gigging musician, you’re an instructor at VCC. Have you been able to keep teaching remotely? What’s that been like? Teaching remotely in the 1st semester was extremely hard and exhausting. We were all learning how to use Zoom, and try to overcome the challenges with teaching music online. Latency is an issue, and there are some days when Zoom just doesn’t want to cooperate with you. I think most music teachers were on an 11:00am – 11:00pm schedule with all the extra prep work, sorting out the technology, and marking

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Maybe we can circle back for a moment. You’re a homegrown talent, having graduated from Capilano College (now University). Was music in your blood, was it something you were always drawn to? Yes, I graduated from Capilano College. At the time, we received our bachelor degrees through a partnership between Cap and the Open Learning Agency. Yes, I have always loved music since I was a child. I started piano lessons when I was five. My mom played a bit of piano, and my dad was quite tone deaf (but was never shy to sing loudly in our home!). My parents had a landscaping business and back in the 70s and 80s, it wasn’t illegal to leave your kids at home alone. I think my parents thought that the piano would be a good way for my sister and I to pass the time until they got back from work, which it was. We had to practice our classical pieces, but we also enjoyed learning pop music by ear that we heard on the radio.

their improvisations and that is something I was really drawn to and aimed to incorporate into my playing. These musicians all have great feel as well and it’s hard not to tap your foot when you listen to them. Other role models have been my instructors. I have had the great privilege of studying in Vancouver with Miles Black, Alan Matheson, Brad Turner, Bruno Hubert. I have also been so fortunate to study with Renee Rosnes and Kenny Werner in New York. These musicians have a more modern approach than Oscar, Stan Getz and the other two I mentioned. I would say that all of my teachers really opened my ears to modern harmony, and helped my composing immensely. These teachers Jazz is not music that people necessarily fall into encouraged me to think outside naturally. Was there someone in your life, your the box to develop my own voice. parents, a teacher maybe, that kickstarted your love of jazz? J a z z has always been very When I was in grade 9, our high school music male-dominated. Do you find teacher was sick for about a week. Our substitute that there are more women teacher, Joe Poppe, played some jazz piano, and I entering the scene these days, was mesmerized by the harmonies he played behind or is it still pretty much a male our choral warm ups. I asked him to teach me jazz domain? piano, so he came to my parents’ house once a week Yes, there are definitely more to teach me. women playing jazz now than when I was in my 20s. It is still male When did you know that music was something you dominated, but I’m glad to see that wanted to pursue full time? I read somewhere that more ladies are slowly making their you started gigging at sixteen? way in. I’ve often wondered if the I think by the end of grade 8, I knew I really loved social challenges for girls in their music and at the time, I wanted to be a high school 20s affect their ability to become music teacher. I was in concert band, jazz band, jazz musicians. At this age, it is very concert choir and jazz choir and loved every min- normal for girls to seek approval on ute of it. My teacher back then, Jan Inkster, was so their appearance and where they encouraging of her students and she developed a stand in social circles. Learning strong music program at our junior high. She let me how to play jazz is no easy feat borrow the school’s drum kit, trumpet, trombone, and with these other distractions and keyboard in the summers so I could try out some and social media on top of it all, I other instruments. I thought it would be fun to be a think it is hard to focus in the way teacher just like her. that one really needs to, to become an excellent jazz musician. In VanWhat musicians have been role models for you, in couver, the vast majority of male terms of your style or how you approach music? musicians I’ve worked with have My first big influences were Bill Evans, Oscar Pe- always treated me like an equal. I terson, Stan Getz, and Ella Fitzgerald. I listened don’t think that is the case in every to all the recordings of them that I could get my city, so I’ve felt extremely lucky to hands on. All of these players are so melodic in be part of this scene.

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Are there any female musicians in particular that you look to for inspiration in how you conduct yourself as an artist. Renee Rosnes was one of my big inspirations from a young age. She was one of the first jazz pianists I’d heard of, so it didn’t occur to me that I was entering a male dominated genre of music. I really respected (and still do) that she was all about the music. It didn’t seem she felt it necessary to use her gender as part of some kind of novelty act. Recently, I watched an online interview with an all-female band she started, called “Artemis” and there was a Q&A at the end. A woman asked how to deal with male musicians who were talking down to them. Renee recommended not focusing too much on the bad behaviour of other people, but rather, to show through your excellence as a musician that you deserve to be up there as much as they do. I loved that and completely agree! You play with Bernie Arai, who’s a great drummer. Is it just a coincidence that you’re both Japanese Canadian? Yes it is a coincidence that we’re both Japanese Canadian. We have been playing in bands together since we were 15 so he feels more like a relative than a friend. He went to Steveston High School, and I went to McNair Senior Secondary, both in Richmond. There were so few kids in Richmond who were really into jazz at that time, so we ended up playing together a lot. Do you bond over your shared heritage in any way, or is purely a musical relationship? We bond over our shared heritage over bowls of ramen when we are not in a pandemic! We have played three years in a row at the Powell Street Festival with a band, and

Bernie and I played as a duo for a festival at Nikkei Place. Last summer, we did an outdoor pandemic performance for the residents of Nikkei Home. We set up outside and the residents came out on their balconies to listen. Half way through, we moved from the back of the building to the front to play for the residents whose apartments face north. Hopefully the residents enjoyed it. We had fun having the chance to play after so many months.

Anything you’d like to add? I’m part of the Cellar Live Records anniversary celebration with other Cellar Live artists, including Cory Weeds, Brad Turner, James Danderfer, Jennifer Scott, and other great Vancouver musician. This will be livestreamed from the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on June 12.

35TH ANNUAL TD VANCOUVER JAZZ FESTIVAL JUNE 25 TO JULY 4, 2021 Various times and locations That’s great. I’m a member of the Vancouver Taiko Tickets for all series are available online: Society and a bunch of us from different taiko www.coastaljazz.ca/festival/festival-ticket-info groups got together to play outside Nikkei Home Virtual and limited in-person attendance pending health orders. in the same format you describe. It was really cool know that we bringing some break in routine to SHARON MINEMOTO QUARTET the seniors who had sadly had their lives shut FRANKIE'S JAZZ CLUB down. It’s not easy being a working musician. Friday, June 25, 2021 What was life like for you, pre-pandemic, if you Frankie’s Jazz Club can even remember that far back? What did life 7:30PM $20 look like, between gigging and teaching? Vancouver-based keyboardist/melodica player Sharon Minemoto is a Pre-pandemic, I taught three-days-a-week at Van- swinging and sensitive performer with a highly melodic style. She is couver Community College and one-day-a-week also the composer of some very hip, original music that runs the gamut at home. I hosted the weekly Monday night jam at from introspective to funky, drawing wide-ranging influence from Herbie Pat’s Pub, and usually had two other evening gigs Hancock, Kenny Wheeler, Stevie Wonder, and Alexander Scriabin. Her each week. Musicians generally keep busy sched- sublime and tasteful quartet features Jon Bentley saxophone, Darren ules between teaching, doing gigs that pay the bills, Radtke bass, and Bernie Arai drums. and doing gigs and writing music that satisfies your creative side, which is probably the most important SHARON MINEMOTO WORKSHOP thing. Days were pretty full of music between teach- TOM LEE WORKSHOPS ing, gigging, practicing, rehearsing, booking gigs, Friday, July 02, 2021 recording, writing, and all the everyday life activities Tom Lee Music Hall 3:30PM that everyone needs to do. FREE – WATCH ONLINE Tell me about the Jazz Festival gig – who’s your band, what kind of gig will it be . . . it’ll be live streaming, is that right? My band, the Sharon Minemoto Quartet will be playing at Frankie’s Jazz Club on June 25. We’ll play some of the music from the “Safe Travels” album, but we also have quite a bit of new music in our repertoire as well. The band includes myself, Bernie, Darren Radtke on bass, and Jon Bentley on saxophones. The gig will be livestreamed, but with the recent lift in restrictions, we will have some people in attendance. I’m also playing with guitarist, Chris Fraser’s band on July 4. I’m playing with vocalist, Laura Crema on June 27 at the Water St. Café for a brunch gig. On June 26 at 2:30 at Performance Works on Granville Island, I’m playing with trumpeter, Brad Turner for a Charlie Parker tribute, featuring alto saxophonist, Campbell Ryga.

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BC Redress

Japanese Canadian Legacy Initiatives

MANDATE FROM THE BC GOVERNMENT The NAJC has received a letter from BC Attorney General, the Hon. David Eby, and Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Rachna Singh (April 25, 2021), which sets out a mandate to work with the NAJC through its set of ‘asks,’ Japanese Canadian Legacy Initiatives delivered to the Premier’s office in July 2020 and buttressed by the November 2020 Institute of Fiscal Studies in Democracy (IFSD) report. NAJC meetings with the BC Government are occurring now through

August 2021 to determine the details of a package for the community in the areas of commemoration, seniors health & wellness, education, anti-racism, heritage preservation, and community & culture. Meetings will be held between April and August 2021 to refine the package. The NAJC’s meetings with the BC Government produced the first grant to BC Seniors Health Care and Housing Society for a Japanese Canadians Survivors Health & Wellness Fund, an initial $2million grant announced on May 5 during a live press conference with the Ministry of Attorney General Parliamentary Secretary of Anti-racism Rachna Singh.

JAPANESE CANADIAN SURVIVORS HEALTH AND WELLNESS FUND The Province of BC has provided Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society (Nikkei Seniors) with $2 million as part of its commitment to honour seniors who lived through the traumatic uprooting and displacement of almost 22,000 Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. The Province of BC is acknowledging the role they played in the historical wrongs committed against the Japanese Canadian community during the period between 1942 and 1949. The grant came out of the efforts of the National Association of Japanese Canadians’ (NAJC) BC Redress initiative. The NAJC is currently in talks with the BC Provincial Government to determine multiple legacy initiatives for the community. Purpose Nikkei Seniors has designated the $2 million for the L to R: Susanne Tabata, Ruth Coles, Susumu Tabata, Cathy Makihara. Photo: John Endo Greenaway. Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness strive to include impacted seniors who were not displaced yet lived Fund (Fund). in BC and suffered through this era and its aftermath. The fund will be At its core, the fund is primarily targeted at seniors distributed in Canada. who were directly impacted – uprooted and displaced – by the BC Government during this period. The purpose of the Fund is to provide By extension, seniors whose families left BC during grants to enhance programs, activities, and the war but were born out of province from 1942-1949 services that will directly benefit the health are part of this demographic. Nikkei Seniors will also and wellness of these living survivors.

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BC Redress

Japanese Canadian Legacy Initiatives

This Fund is an initial step to meet the health and wellness needs of these Japanese Canadian survivors and provide community asset mapping to identify health care gaps. This data will be used for future projects. First Round of Meetings with NAJC Chapters The Project has met with all 18 NAJC chapters and their boards in the fi rst phase of our community outreach. We are pleased to have some of the organizations engaging in the process on a Working Group. They will be assisting us by connecting us with their regional organizations, small groups, and community leader contacts. In addition, they will help with our communication efforts by spreading the word through various communication platforms. Outreach Continues as Criteria is Developing We are just starting the outreach to other community organizations. Those meetings are underway. We are working on developing the criteria for the grants as we continue our outreach, with Linda Kawamoto Reid as project assistant. How to Get Involved The Project office is up and running. If you are from a small group or organization, and have not yet been contacted by our Working Group, please feel free to reach out to the Project Office.

New Denver ca. 1943. Library and Archives Canada.

Looking for small groups and organizations Please include as much information as possible. 1. Name of organization 2. Contact person 3. Contact Information – address, email and telephone number 4. Type of organization e.g. ad hoc/informal; formal such as those with constitution/bylaws 5. Type of activity you do e.g. religious, recreational, health care, community services, social 6. Estimate of size of group 7. Estimate of the number of Japanese Canadian Survivors EIKO EBY Project Manager Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness Fund Email: eikoeby@nikkeishc.com Phone: 250.797.6300 Website: jcwellness.org

New Denver Kyowakai Society, 2010. Photo John Endo Greenaway.

BC Redress Logo by John Endo Greenaway The diamond-shaped visual is taken from a centre section of a Japanese ka-mon (family crest). Extracted from its usual frame, it forms the window of an internment-era shack, viewed from an oblique angle. The BC coastline, including Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii, is viewed through the window. The broken diamond shape also represents the rending apart of a community that none-the-less maintained its traditions and values in the face of forced removal and mass incarceration.

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPANESE CANADIANS

NAJC.CA

ANGLICAN HEALING FUND

The Japanese Canadian Working Group and the National Association of Japanese Canadians present Healing Fund for Japanese Canadians supporting survivors and families affected by GG Nakayama’s Clergy Sexual Abuse in response to our community consultations held in Vancouver, Lethbridge, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa & Montréal with a special presentation on intergenerational trauma by Dr. Satsuki Ina Survivors, their families and supporters, and members of the public are welcome to attend and to learn about Counselling and Education Grants at this Zoom session. Saturday, June 26, 2021, 12noon – 1:30pm Pacific time Pre-register for our Zoom meeting: bit.ly/najcahfc Contact us at our confidential email: jcworkinggroup@gmail.com

HEALING SUPPORT FOR JAPANESE CANADIANS The Anglican Church of Canada and the National Association of Japanese Canadians are pleased to announce that an agreement in principle has been reached to provide healing support to Japanese Canadians affected by the actions of Mr. G. G. Nakayama. Mr. Nakayama is known to have sexually abused hundreds of Japanese Canadian boys during his time as an Anglican priest from 1934 to 1994. The Anglican Church of Canada has authorized the sum of $610,000 to contribute to a Healing Fund for Japanese Canadians, to be administered by the National Association of Japanese Canadians. The Anglican Church has also agreed to finance the costs of a Facilitator/Project Manager, to be jointly selected by the Church and by the National Association of Japanese Canadians to lead a project team that is being formed to deliver the healing support. The Fund will be used to provide therapeutic counselling, educational grants, healing gatherings and community education, primarily for the remaining survivors of the clergy sexual abuse, the families and descendant families of persons harmed by Mr. Nakayama, and other members of the community affected by Mr. Nakayama’s actions. Additional sums may be contributed to the Healing Fund in future. This support follows up on a public apology made by the Anglican Church of Canada to the Japanese Canadian community in June 2015. In its apology and in recently authorizing the healing funds, the Anglican Church reaffirmed its commitment to participate in a healing and reconciliation process with the members of the Japanese Canadian community that were harmed by Mr. Nakayama. For more information contact jcworkinggroup@gmail.com.

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OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF ROSANNE C A S I M I R O F T H E T K ’ E M LU P S T E SECWÉPEMC FIRST NATION FROM THE BOARD OF THE GREATER VANCOUVER JAPANESE CANADIAN CITIZENS’ ASSO- OPEN LETTER FROM TORONTO NAJC TO PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU CIATION Dear Chief Rosanne Casimir, We, the board members of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens Association, wish to express our great sadness at the discovery of unmarked graves of so many children on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. We extend our sincere condolences to all of the families whose loved ones were buried there under such cruel and unjust circumstances. We also believe that the Catholic Church and Federal Government should provide as much financial support as is needed to recover, identify and return these children to their families and communities in a respectful manner. We hope that all survivors of this cruel system can reach a place of healing. If we can provide any further support at this time, please let us know. In solidarity, Judy Hanazawa, President Board Members: Cary Sakiyama Emi Lashin Wendy Matsubuchi April Shimizu May Hamanishi Nikki Asano Ron Nishimura Liz Nunoda

The Right Honourable Mr. Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, It has been long known by Indigenous families that many unnamed and unrecognized children perished in residential schools. While some deaths were recorded, many were not. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) chaired by Justice Murray Sinclair estimated the death toll in residential schools to be over 6,000. Canada has turned a blind eye to those missing and in 2015 turned down the TRC request for funds to conduct site searches of residential schools. Ignoring the reality of so many missing children is no longer an option. The Federal government must finally act, belatedly as it may be, to help affected families, answer questions, mourn their losses, honour their dead and finally tell the stories of their lost loved ones. Canada together with the First Nations must conduct a proper search at locations where residential schools operated. The evils of this case must be faced together while creating safe spaces, so far as possible, for the affected families. Some Canadians reacted with indignation when residential schools were called out as cultural genocide. As truths slowly emerge and more Canadians are educated about the histories of Indigenous peoples and the foundations of Confederation - the motivations of our founding fathers are rightly questioned and our identity as a nation, forever changed. We ask the Federal government to immediately provide funds to Indigenous communities should they desire forensic anthropologic excavation of Residential School sites. We ask for full Implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 94 Calls to Action, notably Calls 71-76. Sincerely, Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi and the Toronto NAJC Board of Directors Photo courtesy Woodland Cultural Centre, site of the Mohawk Institute Residential School.

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STEVESTON JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL CELEBRATES 60 YEARS | EPISODE4 : CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY 2020 – 2021 marks the Steveston Japanese Language School’s 60th anniversary. In this anniversary year, however, the school has not been able to offer in-class instructions and special anniversary events due to COVID 19 (we have been offering classes via Zoom since April 2020). Instead of holding events, we are issuing our special newsletters to our students and their families to deliver the 60-year school history. We would like to share our stories with the readers of The Bulletin. We sincerely hope that many people will learn about the history of our school and also better understand our contributions to the community as well as our role in the community. Since its opening in 1960, the Steveston Japanese Language School has had strong ties with the Steveston Community Centre and the City of Richmond. Thanks to the generous support of the City, the use of the classrooms and office space in the Steveston Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre has been free of charge, which is a big factor in maintaining the low tuition fees. As part of its mission to promote the understanding of Japanese language and culture to all Canadians, the school has been actively participating in community events for many years. One of the major events is the annual Steveston Salmon Festival on July 1, which has become the largest Canada Day celebration in the country. Every year, along with other Steveston Community Centre Japanese user groups, our school participates in the chow mein booth at the festival. The chow mein is very popular, and there is always a long line-up at the booth. The success of the chow mein booth is deeply dependent on the volunteers who spend a considerable time and effort behind the scenes. Prior to the festival day, teachers and parents from the school, along with volunteers from the other Japanese user groups, chop a massive amount of vegetables to go in the chow mein. Former principal Miyo Saito remembers herself always crying while chopping a number of onions. She says that “After chopping a few onions, I could no longer chop well because of the tears in my eyes.” On the day of the festival, high school students and parents help in setting up/taking down the tents and selling the chow mein. Participating in the chow mein booth is a good chance for volunteers to meet and work with other groups. This helps build a strong bond between school members and residents of Steveston and the local community. At the 2004 Salmon Festival, the school set up its very first information booth inside the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. Since then, the school has been acquainting festival-goers with Japanese culture by providing origami and calligraphy booths and mini language lessons. In recent years, the school added kimono-wearing sessions for adults and children, which is a popular attraction at the Salmon Festival. In fact,

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kimono dressing has become such a popular event that the school has hosted a kimono dressing booth at the Richmond Cherry Blossom Festival since its inception in 2017. Contributions to the community have been demonstrated in other ways too. In 2017, the school donated 100 new Japanese children’s books to the Steveston Library. The purpose of this donation was to provide access to Japanese books for all children. It is the school’s hope that through reading or looking at Japanese books, children would develop their interest in Japan. The school also donated funds in support of the development of the Nikkei Memorial Public Art Project, which opened in 2019 at One Road and Moncton Street in the Steveston Park. This site marks the location from where the Steveston Japanese residents were forced to leave during the period of internment. Here at the Steveston Japanese Language School, we are proud of our position as a role model of multiculturalism in Canada. Without the support of the City of Richmond, the community and the many volunteers, the Japanese language and cultural enrichment programs provided by the school would not be possible. We have witnessed many people at community events experiencing and enjoying Japanese culture. This assures us that we are filling a vital role in connecting our community with Japan. We aim to continue fulfilling this need and thank all those who have taken and continue to take part.

スティーブストン日本語学校の６０年を振り返る第４回：コミュニティーへの貢献

２０２０年∼２０２１年は、スティーブストン日本語学校にとって創立６０周年記念の特別な一年です。しかし、新型コロナウィルス感染拡大により、対面授業、学校での記念行事

ベントの場で、地元住民が日本の文化に触れて楽しんでいる姿を何度も見て、本校がコミュニティーと日本をつなぐ大切な役割を果

が行えない状況が続いています。（２０２０年４月より、授業はZoom にて行われていま

たしていると確信してきました。今後もこの大切な役割を果たすと

スレターを発行し、学校の歴史を伝えています。

けていきたいと願っています。

す。）そこで、別の形での記念として、今年度は保護者・生徒に向けて６０周年記念ニュー

共に、本校の活動に協力をしてくれる多くの人々に対し感謝をし続

今回、「月報」にもその記事を投稿することになりました。多くの方に本校の歴史とコミュニ

ティーへの貢献、そして本校の存在意義を知っていただけることを願います。

１９６０年の開校以来、スティーブストン日本語学校は、スティーブストンコミュニティ

ーセンター、そしてリッチモンド市と深い関係を築いてきました。市からの寛大な支援の

おかげで、日加文化センターの教室とオフィスの使用料は無料となり、授業料を低く抑え

る事ができています。日本の言語と文化の普及を使命に、本校は長年コミュニティーのイベントに協力してきました。

中でも最大のイベントは、７月１日のカナダの誕生日を祝う、カナダ国内で

も有名な「スティーブストン・サーモンフェスティバル」です。本校は、毎年

スティーブストンコミュニティーセンター関係の日系団体と「中華焼きそば」のブースに参加しています。この中華焼きそばは大変人気があり、ブ

ースには常に長蛇の列ができています。忘れてはならないのは、この成

功の陰に多くの時間と労力をかけて頑張るボランティアがいる事です。本

校教師や保護者からなるボランティアは、他の日系団体のボランティアと共

に、イベントの数日前から、調理に使う莫大な量の野菜を切っていきます。長年

の参加者である斉藤美代前校長は、大量の玉ねぎを刻んでいる時の思い出を、「目に涙が

れてきて、それ以上切るのがとても大変でした。」と語っています。フェスティバル当日

は、シニア生徒や保護者のボランティアがテントの組み立て／取り外し、中華焼きそばの販売に協力しています。この参加を通し、他の団体のメンバーとの交流も増え、地域住民

やコミュニティーとのより強い絆を築くきっかけも生まれています。

２００４年のサーモンフェスティバルでは、日加文化センター内に本校のブースが初

めて設けられました。以来、折り紙・書道などの伝統文化やミニ日本語レッスンなどを提

供・紹介し続けています。最近では、子供から大人まで楽しめる「着つけ体験」を行い、フ

ェスティバルでも特に人気のあるイベントとなりました。この着付け体験の反響はとても大きく、２０１７年より始まった「リッチモンド市桜まつり」でも、本校は着付けブースを提供しています。

地域への貢献はイベント以外の形でも実施されてきました。２０１７年には地元のステ

ィーブストン図書館に、子供用の本１００冊（新書）を寄贈しました。寄贈の背景には、地域の子供たちに気軽に日本の本に触れてほしい、日本の本を読む（または見る）事で、

日本への関心を深めていってほしいという思いがあります。

更に２０１９年には、Nikkei Memorial Public Art Project への協力金を寄付しました。

このプロジェクトでは、スティーブストン公園の一角に、スティーブストンの日系人を偲んだ記念碑が建てられました。記念碑が建つNo. 1 Road & Moncton Street の地は、戦時中

に強制移動を命じられたスティーブストンの日系人が、内陸の収容所へと出発していった

その場所であり、特別な場所なのです。

スティーブストン日本語学校は、カナダが掲げる多文化主義のロールモデルである事に誇りを持っています。リッチモンド市、地元コミュニティー、そして多くのボランティアの協

力を得る事で、充実した日本の言語と文化のプログラムを提供してきました。これまでイ

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The Paueru Gai Dialogues #6 Reconsidering Land, History and Belonging Saturday, June 26, 2021 1PM PST / 4PM EST

Free online Zoom event Registration Required http://bit.ly/PGDno6

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How can we fight against the dominant frameworks of capitalism and settler colonialism to conjure different futures? Nicole Yakashiro

What does it mean to imagine new relationships to place? How can we acknowledge the complexity and complicity in our own lives and within Japanese Canadian communities and beyond? Guest host Sho and panelists Nicole Yakashiro, Mahlikah Awe:ri and Paulette Moreno will reflect on how art, community organizing and storytelling can serve as maps for generating collective practices of liberation. Participants will be invited into breakout groups to share their perspectives with one another. To wrap up the event, everyone will reconvene to offer questions and debrief together.

Sho’s creative practice is grounded in a diasporic shimanchu (islander) consciousness. He is committed to cultivating space to tell difficult and complicated stories in hopes of dismantling

Nicole Yakashiro is a yonsei settler of Japanese, German, and Russian descent, born and raised on occupied and unceded Stó:lō territory. She is a PhD student in History at UBC where she researches farming and property-ownership among non-Indigenous people of colour as they relate to settler colonialism in BC. She is a member of PSF’s Advocacy and Outreach Committee.

Mahlikah Awe:ri

the separation and stagnation that inform the world he was born into.

Haudenosaunee Kanien’kéhà:ka & Mi’kmaw L’sitkuk, Canadian Poet Of Honor, Mahlikah Awe:ri is an Afro-Indigenous Artist For Social Change, “Shifting paradigms through Indigenized ways of knowing and being; while reimagining what it means to be “In-Relation”, to the Land and to each other”. Awe:ri is an acclaimed Spoken Word Artist, Arts Educator, Musician, Land Defender, Water Protector, Public Speaker, Performance Artist, Curator, Futurist Writer & Digital Artist. Paulette Moreno, Tkl Un’ Yeik, is a Women of Tlingit Grandmothers. She is the Granddaughter of Japanese and Hispanic Grandfathers. Paulette lives in Alaska and has been sharing her compelling personal experience of how we can collectively challenge our perception of inner war and find soulful peacefulness.

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Paulette Moreno

The Paueru Gai Dialogues – reflections The Paueru Gai Dialogues – take five The fifth session of the online Paueru Gai Dialogues culture techniques, Coast Salish cultural elements and have included was held on Saturday, May 22, 2021. themes of ethnobotany, indigenous language revival, Salish weaving The Changing Environment and Humanity was facil- and digital media technology. itated by guest host Haruko Okano, with panelists Jen Sungshine is a queer Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary & T’uy’t’tanat – Cease Wyss, Jen Sungshine, and Rita multi-hyphenate artist/activist, community facilitator, and cultural producWong. er based in Vancouver, BC. She is the Co-Artistic Director and Co-foundHaruko Okano is a Sansei generation Japanese er of Love Intersections, a media arts collective producing intergeneraCanadian who was born in Toronto but now lives in tional + intersectional QTBIPOC stories through documentary film. Vancouver, BC. Through the Ontario Children’s Aid Rita Wong is dedicated to questions of water justice, decolonization, Society, she was raised by Caucasian foster parents and ecology. She is the author of monkeypuzzle, forage, sybil unrest in several different locations. (with Larissa Lai), undercurrent, perpetual (with Cindy Mochizuki), and T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss works range over 30 years beholden (with Fred Wah), as well as the co-editor of downstream: reand have always focused on sustainability, perma- imagining water (with Dorothy Christian).

The Changing Environment and Humanity The Paueru Gai Dialogues are an acknowledgment that the Powell Street Festival, indeed the JC community itself, does not exist in a vacuum – that our arrival on these shores, our subsequent displacement and rebuilding are part of a larger narrative. The fifth session, The Changing Environment and Humanity, was a chance to look at the land on which we all live, and the relationships we have with that land. Guest host Haruko Okano began by introducing T’uy’t’tanat – Cease Wyss, sometimes referred to as an indigenous plant diva. You can read more about Cease and her life-views here: indigenousplantdiva.wordpress.com. She began with a presentation titled Remediation and Restoration of both urban and rural spaces as a means of acknowledging what has been taken and how times is essential in healing the earth or, as she says, “helping Mother Earth get out of trouble.” With a deep and intimate relationship with the land and the growing things it nurtures, Cease’s presentation took us through some of the work she and others have been doing on the land, and reinforced one of the through-lines of these dialogues – that team work and ally-ship are essential to saving the earth and leaving a healthier planet for future generations. Her care for the land is inspirational, as is her commitment to speaking up for it and against those that would defile it. Jen Sungshine was up next, calling in from her small apartment where she lives alone with her houseplants and (recently deceased) cat. She talked about the isolation brought about by the COVID lockdown, along with the lessons she has learned from the non-human world. She talked about tropism, the growth or turning movement of a biological organism, in response to environmental stimulus, and how she has transfered these insights into her artistic practice in the external world, plants and animals having taught her a language of relationship and an ethos of care. It is this ethos of care that shone through in her talk – care for the “othered,” for the oddballs and the determinedly different. Jen’s ongoing work to build networks and community is inspiring in its determined inclusivity, while embracing the messiness that comes with true collboration. The final panelist was Rita Wong, who talked about her love for the Coast Salish lands that we live, work and play on, and the steps she is taking in solidarity with indigenous peoples to fight for a just and sustainable world. These steps range from supporting the community of activists at the Kwekwecnewtxw (Watch House) at the east gate of the Burnaby talk farm, to traveling up north and, in her words, “learning from the water, learning from the rivers, paying attention to the local creeks and the watersheds including the Salish sea,” urging people not to look away from the clear-cuts and the scorched earth, but to look with clear eyes at what we are doing to the earth and water and air that sustains us all, regardless of where we come from. Haruko Okano then posed a question to the panelists: “There is still a relational gap between our understanding of human connection to the underlying root causes of these issues. How do we begin to fully understand without knowing ourselves, the impact of our complicity? How do we do this? Where do we start? Because a lot of people feel overwhelmed and then get discontinued on page 45

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Paueru Gai Dialogues – questions that arise • In what ways can we ensure our allyship to Mother • How can we discern between the seeds we want and the seeds we Earth is inclusive of a non-human centric perspec- need? tive? • How can we ensure that the seeds we plant don’t just benefit ourselves • How do we ensure that we are giving to the land as but the land and other communities? much as we are receiving from the land?

• What is preventing us from planting those seeds today?

• How do we weave nature into our lives and our- • How can we use the land to create stories for healing? selves into nature in a way that allows us to live and • What kind of stories create healing? breathe and keep that balance? • How do we shift the ice berg? How do we centre a more com• How can we all become performance artists evmunity based approach to ecological care? eryday at every moment? • How does the pandemic provide an opportunity to allow us to • What can I do in my garden that will build ally shift our priorities? ships with marginalized people? And who • How can we continue those slow practices outside of the panwould like to work in our community garden? demic? • How do we build or strengthen community • What if we listen to the vibrations of the land to heal? economies, so that they work to heal our relations with the land and water? (How to get • How do we keeping building on the solutions we already have economies to work for us, rather than us worktoo? ing for “the economy”?) • What is our responsibility to other gardens that are not ours? • How might it be possible for colonized systems • How do we reimagine ownership collectively rather than indito develop solutions to the problems they have vidually? caused? What is the role of dreaming, hope, op• How can we learn from past gardening mistakes? timism, faith, among people, all beings, and the land? • How/When do know when/what we can take from the land?

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• How do we introduce new species into the garden • How can we contribute to strengthening Coast Salish economies? without harming the existing eco-system? • What practical steps are priority to strengthening these alternate econ• How do we ensure that we are giving to the land as omies? much as we are receiving from the land? • What can we learn from environment relationships and how can we use • How do we weed out the invasive harmful plants so those to improve our own communities? that native plants can survive and thrive? • What does “land back” mean? • How do we learn the history of the land including the • How can I enjoy my garden in such a way that is not just for myself? native plants and the people who cared for them? • How can we build gardens that are shared feeding/eating spaces with • How do we introduce new species into a ecosystem humans and non-humans? so that they are not harmful but co-exist with the na• How do we find existing spaces in nature? tive species? • What kind of seeds do we want to sow, both in our • How do we weave nature into our lives and ourselves into nature in a way that allows us to live and breathe and keep that balance? communities and gardens? • What kind of practices do we need to create regenerative growth in our communities?

• How can we increase our awareness about our place on the land and in the ecosystem?

• How do we build or strengthen community econo- • How do we bring that awareness into our daily lives and learn more? mies, so that they work to heal our relations with the • What are ways that we can interweave care and translation of care beland and water? (How to get economies to work for tween humans and non-humans? us, rather than us working for “the economy”?)

To view the entire The Changing Environment and Humanity presentations and questions, visit bit.ly/PGDno5

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update Powell Street Festival Lottery The Powell Street Festival Lottery is our lifeblood! It was launched in the early 1980s and has continued every year until the uncertainties of Covid19 forced us to cancel it in 2020. We are so pleased to resurrect it for the 45th Powell Street Festival! For many years, the lottery was the main source of income to cover the festival production costs, however, it is the lottery’s intrinsic value that continues to fuel the festival. The lottery represents the symbiotic relationship of community stakeholders: it keeps us connected to our community partners who donate the prizes, it supports grassroots community groups who sell the tickets as a fundraiser for themselves and provides an inexpensive and easy way for festival goers to show their support. Adapting to the pandemic context, the 45th Powell Street Festival Lottery features staycation-themed prizes such as an overnight package at Listel Hotel including dinner at Forage, Kiku Wellness spa treatments and a selection

of local hiking books published by Greystone Books. True to Powell Street Festival’s grassroots charm, while we’ve pivoted to largely online ticket sales, the lottery remains truly analogue: we have dedicated interns and volunteers handwriting and mailing your ticket stubs to each purchaser! For more information, visit www.powellstreetfestival.com.

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• How do we break down the separation between “ourselves” and the natural world? Why is it so hard, given that we are of the natural world?

• How can we take the lessons from the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and extend it over the rest of the year?

• How does colonization impact our ability to understand how we are part of the natural world?

• How do we weave nature into our lives and ourselves into nature in a way that allows us to live and breathe and keep that balance?

• What are some ideas about ways to share knowledge of the natural world? • How can we all become performance artists everyday at every moment?

• Why do we need COVID to drive us outside?

• How can we all become performance artists everyday at every moment?

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NOMINATION OF GVJCCA DIRECTORS FOR THE 2021-2022 BOARD GVJCCA Board Director Nomination and By-Law Qualification Information If you are a GVJCCA member and have an interest, or if you know a member who is interested in becoming a Board Director, please forward nomination information to gvjcca@gmail.com. Here are information points which you could include in the nomination information: GVJCCA PURPOSES It’s important for anyone who becomes a GVJCCA Board Director to know • Areas of GVJCCA programs which interest you and which might make your volunteer work as a Board what the Purposes of the GVJCCA are according to the Constitution. Here Director enjoyable; are the Purposes: • To protect and promote the past, present, and future legal rights and • What your work or life experience is and why you are interested in becoming a GVJCCA Board Director democratic freedoms of all persons in Canada regardless of race, religion, colour, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, and marital, family GVJCCA By-law information about Director or economic status; qualifications • To promote the enjoyment, appreciation, and study of the arts and cul- 1. Be at least 18 years of age; ture of Japanese Canadians through the organization of community 2. Be a Member in good standing; and cultural programs, and hosting and co-hosting of community and 3. Not found by a court of being bankrupt or incapable cultural events; of managing your affairs; • To educate the Canadian public about and to preserve the history and 4. Not convicted of an offence in connection with the cultural heritage of Japanese Canadians; promotion, formation or management of a corpo• To develop and maintain a communications network with multicultural ration or unincorporated entity, or of an offence societies in Canada and the world; involving fraud; • To support the cultural identity, continuing social development, and 5. Be of Japanese descent or partially Japanese dewell-being of Japanese Canadians at the individual, family and comscent or married to a person of Japanese descent; munity levels; 6. Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of • To support the awareness of citizens of Canada as to the duties and Canada responsibilities inherent in Canadian citizenship; Thank you for your interest in nominations for becom• To publish a journal as a forum for issues significant to its members, ing a Director for the 2021-2022 GVJCCA board. We persons with Japanese ancestry, and interested others. look forward to receiving your nomination. The GVJCCA Board is currently seeking nominees for the Board for the new term which will begin after the Annual General Meeting on August 14, 2021. We are asking our membership to nominate members for serving on the GVJCCA Board.

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GVJCCA CANADA SUMMER JOBS POSITION Call for Summer Student Employment Applications

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THE GVJCCA FOR 2021 IS SEEKING A DYNAMIC CANADA SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM APPLICANT. THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT • is between 15 and 30 years of age at beginning of employment – as per Youth Employment Strategy 2021 • is a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for the duration of the employment • has a valid Social Insurance Number at the start of employment and be legally entitled to in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations • Food Safe Certificate helpful but not essential for 2021 • has general knowledge of Japanese Canadian history will be helpful International Students are not eligible participants. International Students include anyone who is temporarily in Canada for studies and who is not a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person who has been granted refugee status in Canada. Youth awaiting a refugee status ruling as well as those who hold a temporary visitor visa, youth visa or work visa are ineligible. Please forward your covering letter and resume to gvjcca@gmail.com All short-listed applicants will be interviewed prior to becoming the successful candidates for these position. Descriptions of the positions and required qualifications, desired assets, skills and relevant experience are detailed below. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TASK AND RESPONSIBILITIES Work with GVJCCA Board members and support staff in the organizing and fundraising activities of the non-profit organization towards a successful Powell Street Festival planned for July 31 – August 1, 2021. This would involve the planning and requesting of donations; collection of donations; and coordination of participation of the GVJCCA at the Powell Street Festival 2021. Previously the GVJCCA Salmon BBQ/Musubi sales were key to its fundraising efforts. This year creativity and adaptability will be essential in these plans to remain compliant to the BC Health regulations during this Covid-19 period. Also bring new creative, perspectives for our continuing Intergenerational Project and ability to update information for future planned activities post-Covid. Detail work ability to do historical archival material research in attaining information for several GVJCCA Projects.

Tom Toshio Yasumatsu (1938-2019) was the indomitable leader

From his obituary, February, 2019, Winnpge Free Press

of a workforce of 400 Winnipeggers who produced the Cuban

He was the youngest of six kids and when he was four

Lunch chocolate bar and other baked goods at the Paulin’s fac-

years old, his family was forced to move to Manitoba as

tory. He began working there at age 17, to support his family

part of the Japanese Canadian Internment. They lost

who’d been interned during WWII.

everything and he grew up poor, dropping out of high

His skills, intellect, and caring personality propelled him

school at age 17 to find a job. Thus began his career at

from that entry level job to the Directors role for the entire plant.

Paulin Chambers. He started as the office boy and when

Tom was loved, admired and appreciated by the staff. He later

he was hired, he was told he was “the first of his kind” to

worked tirelessly trying to revive the factory and the jobs after it

be hired at Paulin’s so he better do a good job. He spent

closed. Tom played a vital part in the history of the Prairies and the Canadian foods we all love. From Facebook: Canadian Candy Nostalgia – Cuban Lunch and more

the next 34 years proving himself, working his way up through the company until he was “the boss”, Director of Manufacturing.

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PRESIDENTS REPORT by Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi communications@torontonajc.ca CHALLENGING RACIST BC – EXILE EAST OF THE ROCKIES It was an evening of information and intergenerational engagement. The Ottawa Japanese Community Association & Cultural Centre (OJCA - OJCC) was our East of the Rockies partner for the event. Justice Maryka Omatsu and Dr. John Price gave us a summary view of the work, Challenging Racist BC: 150 Years and Counting, which can be accessed online at www.challengingracistbc.ca Dr. Price stands out for the depth of his knowledge of the histories of racialized communities in BC. He is respected for his fearless advocacy for the communities he is researching. Long before this current reckoning, he has been vocal in calling out racism for what it is. We respect this as an important aspect of ethical engagement for community outsiders, conducting research about the painful histories of marginalized peoples.

Matt concluded by reflecting that “as a Yonsei, fourth generation, how much we still hold the Issei and Nisei with us” and the significance of “having known the Issei and to know the Nisei and now to work with Sansei. My reality is so different from my elders and I look into my own future and I know how deeply I will hold my connection with them when I get to be their age and it’s so emotional and important and it is a foundation for my identity.”

With Challenging Racist BC, Maryka Omatsu, John Price and collaborators from the Black, Indigenous and and East and South Asian communities have come together to recognize the length and legacy of the racism that is integral to the history of British Kim offered a quote by African Columbia. Dr. Price gathered in interdisciplinary and American attorney and writer, cross-community research to explain the specifics of Randall Robinson she thought really important for the conversations why BC having entered Confederation in 1871 is indeed, that night and for our work going forward. “The worst thing you can do a “A province like no other.” people is to rob them of the memory of themselves.” Says, Kim, “Books like Challenging Racist BC and conversations like this, this evening, are The audience then divided into nine Breakout Rooms helping us to reclaim our memories of ourselves as a community, as a led by a contingent of nine primarily Yonsei facilitators disparate community and as a community that has something to teach for 25 minutes of discussion. Enriching conversations one another and that has something to teach the rest of Canadian society. were reported by all groups and one group noted that We bring forward the things that were wrong and address those injustices there were four generations in theirs. but also to celebrate the fact that we are in some ways all survivors.” The evening closed with final words from the Vice- BC SURVIVORS GRANT – On the ground in Toronto Presidents of the two organizations, Kim Uyede-Kai of The Toronto NAJC and Momiji Healthcare Society are in close touch in Toronto, and Matt Miwa of Ottawa. order to understand how this funding will be rolled out in the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding communities. At this moment there are no details to report but if you would like to be placed on an email list for updates email survivors@torontonajc.ca

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPANESE CANADIANS

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TERRY WATADA

VISIBILITY VS. REPRESENTATION: COMMERCIALS, SIT-COMS, AND KUNG FU by Terry Watala Have you noticed how many commercials feature Asians these days? And movies? And TV shows? Ever since the latest ramping up of anti-Asian violence, Asian North Americans have gained a significant amount of visibility in the media. Family product commercials seem to always show a mixed-race family with the mother usually photo: Tane Akamatsu an Asian woman. See how well we’ve assimilated! No need to beat us as the enemy. We’re all friends after all. There are Asian husbands as well but fewer examples. Gone are the days of “Ping Pong Charlie” with an Asian man winning a game against the white man but who walks away with the woman? The white man. Marvel Studios announced the first superhero movie with an Asian man in the lead. Shang Chi stars Simu Liu of Kim’s Convenience fame. Other successful productions include Crazy Rich Asians, The Farewell and Minari. Then there is television. Kim’s Convenience, as mentioned, Fresh Off the Boat, Star Trek: Discovery, and the new Kung Fu include either an all-Asian lead cast or Asians in significant roles. So Asian North Americans are now more visible than ever, but do they represent the community? Kim’s Convenience and Fresh Off the Boat are cartoon portrayals of Asian life. Convenience is standard sitcom fare with boring, cliched plots. The characters are simply drawn and the jokes rather lame. This has nothing to do with the actors who try their best; the weakness lies in the writing. FOB is based on a racist trope. The family is from the Washington DC area who moved to Orlando by station wagon, not by boat or jet. The program features a Tiger Mom, an Affable Dad, two near-genius kids and a rascal big brother. Like Convenience, the plots are predictable and the characters thinly drawn and stereotypical. Even Eddie Huang, the show’s inspiration, disavowed connection with the show. He said that the show is “an ambiguous, cornstarch story about Asian-Americans” that perpetuates “an artificial representation of Asian American lives.” The same could be said about Kim’s Convenience.

Nicky Chen, Kung Fu

skills were often touted as her best characteristic. Anyway, she is coming back as Georgiou in her own series, Star Trek: Section 31. It will be the first Star Trek series to feature an Asian American woman or an Asian American for that matter, in a starring role.

Other strong and positive Asian characters include Irene Abe, played by Suzy Nakamura, on Snowfall; the cast of Warrior; Medical Officer Edrisa Tanaka (Keiko Agena) on Prodigal Son – somewhat stereotyped but a uniquely spunky character; and the Asian American women on Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal. The host dedicated an entire program to Star Trek Discovery has the delightful Michelle Yeoh as Captain Phillipa Anti-Asian violence. Georgiou. She brings a strength to the series seldom seen, George But then there is Kung Fu. Despite the show featuring Takei’s Sulu notwithstanding. She commands the screen when she’s an all-Asian cast (despite the central character’s exon. Her departure was a sad event for me, though her martial arts continued on page 42

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STEP one: visit jccabulletin-geppo.ca/membership and fill out the form STEP TWO: send your etransfer payment to gvjcca@gmail.com with a security question of your choice STEP THREE: send a separate email to gvjcca@gmail.com indicating the answer to the security question

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Hello GVJCCA members, I am happy to report that I am fully recovered from Covid. Looking back, it took a whole month to return to regular functioning. I am grateful my recovery went as well as it did and extend support to those Covid survivors who are dealing with lingering symptoms. It is an unpredictable virus. Please stay safe everyone – variants are very contagious, even as we are feeling freer with more and more people being vaccinated. People are looking forward to getting their second dose in the weeks ahead and hopefully we will have an enjoyable July and August. About our Zoom Antiracism Workshops The GVJCCA hosted the last of our zoom Antiracism Series on May 15 during Asian Heritage Month which lasted throughout the month of May. Asian

Heritage Month focused this year on the alarming and escalating incidents of anti-Asian racism. In keeping with this focus, our workshop, “Deconstructing the Model Minority Myth” also examined the inherent racism in stereotyping others. Participants had lots to say about the myth and their personal experience with it. It was good to share and listen to their stories. Our series of four workshops have generally received positive comments from participants. I am expressing thanks and congratulations to our zoom coordinator Emiko Newman who did amazing work preparing, coordinating and hosting each workshop. We were also assisted by a faithful crew of committee members, Wendy Matsubuchi, Nikki Asano, Kathy Shimizu and Eli Sheiner who acted as technicians, workshop group facilitators and general supporters. Eli was also an amazing speaker at our last workshop. Thank you to all for contributing your work, feedback, ideas and time. Presenting these zooms would not have been possible without you. continued on page 26

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JCCA continued Haida Elder and Master Carver, Skundaal Bernie Williams wisely stated at a workshop that “we need to stand together and support each other because none of us can do this alone.” Our workshops confirmed Skundaal’s words – we learned from our series that we need to stand with and support each other in order to overcome hate and racism in all its forms. We appreciate everyone who participated. The 2 Million Dollar BC Redress Healing and Wellness Fund for Survivor Seniors The GVJCCA was happy to learn about the BC Redress 2 million Dollar fund for Healing and Wellness for Internment Survivors announced on May 5. This fund will be distributed in BC and across Canada to support survivors whose families settled eastward upon exile from BC in 1945. The GVJCCA applauds this program which reaches out to support healing and wellness for senior survivors. It would be wonderful if Covid restrictions were lifted at some point over the year, and survivors could gather, and be with friends once again. Friendships are so important for healing. The GVJCCA is ready to do what we can to support this program. August 14, 2021 Annual General Meeting For August, don’t forget to attend the Annual General Meeting which will take place by Zoom on Saturday, August 14, 2021 from 1 to 3PM. Notice will be in each Bulletin before the meeting. The GVJCCA Board is also seeking new directors. For now, we hope there are many sunny days and you are able to relax and enjoy yourselves during the rest of June.

As we go to press, the heartbreaking news of the discovery of the unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School is shaking us all. Please see page 13 for a message from the board of directors of the GVJCCA.

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VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL RE-OPENING PLANS & REGISTRATION It is our pleasure to share with our community that the Vancouver Japanese Language School intends to re-open its classrooms for in-person learning in September 2021. We have heard from many of our parents and students that they are eager to see one another and to be able to take part in in-person activities, and we are taking all of the precautions necessary to do so. All of our classes – Kindergarten, Elementary, Fundamental, Jr. High, Sr. High, and Adult – will be returning with their familiar curriculums from before COVID 19. These will include culture classes for Jr. and Sr. High students and popular electives like Calligraphy classes for all ages. Our weekday evening classes are also continuing to run year round with the next classes starting this July and September. We are also planning to resume key events like our Opening Ceremony and Year End Presentations as well as activities around cultural events like Mochitsuki, Setsubun, the Tanabata Festival. Additionally, we know that many enjoyed the meals prepared in our kitchen and we hope to be able to continue to offer them with the support of our volunteers. The decreasing number of COVID 19 cases, and increasing number of vaccinations, gives us hope for a school year spent together, however we recognize that the situation can evolve quickly and we will continue to plan within the limits placed by the Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. We have developed contingency plans that will allow as many classes as

possible to study in-person and will share these details with students, parents, and adult learners if the COVID 19 situation changes. Our Health & Safety committee, which includes Child Care and VJLS staff, are continuing to update our protocols based on the latest information and practices. To protect the safety of our students and their families, we will be ensuring all stairways, desks, and common areas will be sanitized after each class and professionally cleaned each evening. Masks will still need to be worn and we will continue to require COVID 19 monitoring and checks before entering the building. If you have any questions about our procedures, please contact info@vjls-jh.com. To register for next year’s classes, and for more information on fees, classes offered, and planned activities, please visit www.vjls-jh.com/register. We look forward to welcoming everyone safely in the new school year!

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CHEESE ISLAND

Cheese Island by Gustavo Zambelli on Unsplash

by Sally Ito In life, there are fake places and real ones. So if a friend tells you a volcano has erupted in her country, how do you believe her if she doesn’t send pictures? Or if she sends you one from public domain stock images? I mean, if it’s still a volcano and it’s shown erupting, why wouldn’t you believe her?

his soul – was interned in a place called Lemon Creek. That’s what my Mom told me. When I heard the name, I thought of a sour place in the mountains where every one moped around with puckered faces as if they had sucked too many lemons instead of trying to make lemonade with them. There just wasn’t enough sugar around in those days. Rationing it, you know, because it was war time.

In writing, there are true stories but not fake ones, because the fake ones are just called fiction. And people read those stories all the time and often think they’re true. But true is different than real.

Then I went to Lemon Creek. It was a pretty place in the Kootenay mountain range in interior British Columbia. There was an empty field with grasses and a blue mountain in the distance. There was a stream that must’ve been the place’s namesake. And though it was hard to believe Jiichan ran around here with his brothers and a bunch of other interned Japanese Canadians, I found it peaceful. I knew Jiichan’s boysoul was there. Jii-chan died before I was born so I never knew him. This was as good as it was going to get for me.

Cheese Island is a real place. I found out about it when I was doing research on Japanese Canadian internment. My dead grandfather – Jiichan, is what Japanese call grandpas – bless

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www.landscapesofinjustice.com Time marches on and forgets a place. But historians were watching Japanese TV. That’s why she took us to Japan. So we don’t. And they’re the ones that provide the would watch Japanese TV. Not American TV like what she grew up with. information on Wikipedia sites I need to research to make my films. I’m mixed race; I’m also Christian. In either case you wouldn’t know it to Historians want films to be factual and accurate. But look at me. So when that Christian dude went into that Asian spa and for filmmakers like me and writers like my mom, we killed all those women that looked like my mom, I was really torn up just want them to feel that way. There’s a difference, about it. see? I went to a Christian camp on an island in the middle of a lake. There I So when I saw Cheese Island as an internment site swam a lot and took kids on canoe trips. On those trips, I told kids that of Japanese Canadians on the Japanese Canadian God loves them no matter what they look like. There used to be a song Internment Wikipedia site, I got interested real fast. sung on that island that they don’t sing anymore. Mom, have you ever heard of Japanese Canadians Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world interned on Cheese Island? I asked her. Red and yellow, black and white, all are precious in His sight She looked at me and said What? in that horrified way Jesus loves the little children of the world. she looks when people get facts wrong. Especially about the internment. But I got her on that one. I guess that song is considered racist nowadays. And also, there’s some You know, Cheese Island, that place in Ontario in Sharbot Lake Provincial Park located between Peterborough and Ottawa off of the TransCanada Highway also known as Highway 7?

missing colors, like where’s brown?

Now it was my turn to say, “What?’

poetry, a collection of short ﬁction, and most lately a memoir about her Japanese Canadian family called The Emperor’s Orphans. She lives in Winnipeg and is a member of the Landscapes of Injustice Community Council. Recently she, along with other Community Council members, Jennifer Hashimoto and chair Vivian Rygnestad participated with University of Victoria students to review and update the Japanese Canadian Internment page on Wikipedia. This story was inspired by that Wiki-A-Thon.

I like the idea that somebody out there got sent to Cheese Island. On the satellite image on Google maps, you can see there’s a dock on it with a boat parked there. The island is in the middle of a provincial park so I know it’s beautiful and harsh at the same time, and the Japanese in me, Always arm yourself with the facts, I say. says that’s the way life is, sometimes, Shikata ga nai. It can’t be helped. No! Mom said, almost indignant. Where did you read But then the Christian in me says, ‘But God loves you always and forever that? no matter where you are.’ On Wikipedia, I said triumphantly. That’s the great thing about being mixed – you can think and feel at the Then my little sister sailed into the room and said, same time. “I know Cheese Island! It’s the place Cheese Daijin This short story was originally published in The Junction on Medium.com rules – you know, the Minister of Cheese? It’s one of and used with permission from the author. the islands around Whole Cake Island that Momma Pirate rules in Totto Land. Sanji and Charlotte Pudding got married there.” Sally Ito is a Sansei. She is a writer who has published three books of

“You know, it’s a place on One Piece, the TV show. The anime.” Ohhh, now I get it! And so did Mom, too. Sort of. We all knew One Piece because when Mom took us to Japan, a former student of hers told us it was her favorite anime on TV and so we all got hooked on it, too, as kids. Mom, not so much, but she was glad we

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Alice Bradley CommunityKitchen with and Lea Ault

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Just a little casual conversation at the end of May... Alice: The BC Public Health Office has announced the relaxation of some of the Covid restrictions we have been living under. Masking and social distancing, however uncomfortable and/or inconvenient, has helped slow the rate of spread, and vaccination is progressing well enough that most of us have had our first vaccination and now can apply to have our second. This should ensure more freedoms this summer. Lea: Woohoo!!!! We can go for ramen again! (air horn) Alice (closing eyes briefly): After months of social isolation spent in comfy, loose garments with elastic waists, our figures may not be as trim as we would like and now we are in a hurry to get fit and summer shaped again. Lea: Hmmm. A certain 98-lb someone has noticed that I’ve gone up a size or two and have, like the Hulk, been investing in stretchy pants. Alice: The internet has no shortage of remedies to get you fit in no time. There are countless websites extolling the virtues of superfoods, formulas and supplements. Don’t be fooled. There is no shortcut to, nor substitute for, healthy eating. Lea: (closing down Goop.com) What, lemon juice and cayenne no good? Apple cider vinegar? What about keto? I hear you can drop 30 pounds in a week including one of your kidneys with keto. What if I just eat blueberries and sawdust? That’s healthy, no? Alice: (sigh) The notion of “superfoods” was started by the agriculture industry to sell new products like bananas after WW1. Lea: Why did they need to sell bananas? Wasn’t there a banana shortage? Seems to me there was even a song about that. Remember? “No, we have no bananas! We have no bananas today!” Alice: (No singing!) Then came the dry cereals promoted by leaders of the health food industry and those cereals caught on well. Lea; But you would never buy us those fun cereals! It was all bran flakes when we wanted Froot Loops. And

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wasn’t the cereal thing started by Kellogg? He had a spa and his idea of health meant corn flakes and being sprayed with a fire hose! Alice: Quite …. Superfoods and supplements containing “super” nutrients are marketed to consumers eager to obtain super health quickly. These include intensely coloured vegetables, such as yams and sweet potatoes, kale, nuts, legumes, berries, seeds like flax, quinoa etc. Such foods are indeed healthy and should be consumed but not to the exclusion of less celebrated foods. We don’t want to be blind to the merits of all foods, and in the end it’s variety that keeps us healthy. Lea: So, alternate the chocolate croissant with an almond one once in a while? Alice: ANYWAY! Articles written by nutrition health professionals, registered with their college…. Lea: (She is talking about herself here in case you didn’t know) Alice: ….always emphasize variety and are less likely to focus on a handful of celebrity foods. So eat well but wisely, limit the amount of ‘fun’ foods in your daily diet, especially now that the restaurants are open, and start enjoying the new freedoms. Lea: It’s going to be a great summer, guys!

Kimchi Tofu Stew My sister made this in about 10 minutes, it sat in the slow cooker for 4-5 hours and then I finished it with spinach and noodles. Easy!! And also fermented foods are good for your gut; kimchi definitely qualifies. 1 pkg (300-500g) ground pork (can use ground chicken or turkey) 3 cloves garlic, minced ½ package or 2 cups coleslaw mix (optional, just good for more veggies, can also use grated zucchini and/or carrot) Saute the pork with the garlic until it’s crumbly and no longer pink. Add veg and sauté a bit more, then put into the slow cooker. Add: 2 beef, chicken or vegetable bouillon cubes 3 T. shoyu 1 c. kimchi 2 T. kochijyan (gochujang in Korean) 3-4 c. water, or to cover. You can also substitute chicken broth for the water and bouillon cubes if you want to reduce salt 1 T. rayu (optional) Slow cook on low for 5 hours.

Four hours in, cube 1 package of medium or soft tofu and add. 30 minutes after that, add 2 blocks of frozen udon noodles.

Farro Salad

I like salads with some heft to them, and whole-grainbased salads are my favourites, although I never say no to a good potato or pasta salad. Farro is a nice chewy, Top with extra kimchi and green onions. We had rice as well to absorb nutty grain and I picked some up and have been doing some experimenting. It’s a nice change to rice (did I the extra delicious sauce. hear someone holler, sacrilege!?) and we feel a little more healthy adding a variety of interesting grains to our diets. We made this salad for Mother’s Day! 10 minutes before it’s done add ½ regular bag (not Costco sized bag) of spinach and stir in to wilt.

Strawberry Yogurt Mousse Cake

This qualifies as fun food – it’s soooooo good, as fun food always is. 1 ¾ c. graham cracker crumbs or chocolate crumbs if you prefer 1 T. sugar ¼ c. water + 1 T. oil OR ⅓ c. melted butter (the first option is lower in calories but the second tastes better in my opinion) Stir together. It will be crumbly; press lightly into a 9-inch springform pan and bake at 350F for 10-15 minutes to set. Cool completely. 500g hulled strawberries (frozen works well, thaw in the microwave first) ½ c. sugar Juice of 1 lemon 1 c. thick yogurt like Skyr or greek yogurt Put these in a food processor and blitz until well blended. Sprinkle 2 packages of gelatin powder onto ⅓ c. water in a small microwaveable bowl. Let sit for a few minutes to soften then put in the microwave to finish melting; 20 seconds is enough. Add to the strawberry mixture and transfer to a large bowl. Put in the fridge to chill slightly – just while you finish up, not so long it solidifies! 2 egg whites (ideally at room temperature) 2 T. sugar Whip until stiff, then add sugar and whip until the sugar is dissolved. Set aside. 1 ½ c. whipping cream - whip until stiff peaks form.

1 c. farro – to cook this, check package instructions. I got my farro at Costco and apparently it’s a quickcooking kind. If you don’t like farro, quinoa also works, or try 8-rice grain mix which I ABSOLUTELY LOVE. Shirakiku makes the best one. 2 small or 1 large zucchini, cut into long oval or lengthwise slices about ¼” thick 1 t. olive oil 1 small punnet cherry or grape tomatoes, sliced in half ½ large cucumber or 3 small crunchy cucumbers in small dice 2 stalks celery in small dice ¼ c. crumbly feta cheese 2 green onions, minced About 5-6 pcs sundried tomatoes in oil, chopped finely ¼ c. black olives, chopped Handful Italian parsley, chopped One lemon, juiced 1 T. olive oil Salt and pepper Cook farro or whatever grain you choose according to package directions. I use the rice cooker. While it’s cooking, oil the zucchini lightly with olive oil, sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper and grill on a grill pan or on the bbq. When cool, dice.

Whisk some of your whipped egg whites into your strawberry mixture to Toss farro with all veggies and cheese. Drizzle with juice lighten it, then fold in the rest of the egg whites and the cream. Pour over of 1 lemon and about 1 T. of olive oil and a few good the crust and chill until set, at least 4 hours but overnight is best. grinds of pepper. Toss well, taste for salt. Feta cheese Nice with a little whipped cream and sliced strawberries! Cool and light. is salty and so are olives, so I generally salt once I’ve tasted the salad in its entirety. You can add chopped cooked chicken or cooked beans of any kind to this salad; it’s a good catchall as well as a nice side for steak or grilled meats.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Lorene Oikawa June brings the summer solstice, the day with the most daylight hours, and we also see some light with the continuing vaccinations and the drop in daily COVID-19 infections. We have come so far, and we need to maintain our vigilance to prevent another wave of infections. Please continue to follow public health orders and keep yourself and your loved ones safe.

For more information about the agreement reached by the NAJC and the Anglican Church of Canada to provide healing support to Japanese Canadians affected by the actions of Mr. G. G. Nakayama, a former Anglican priest from 1934 to 1994, who sexually abused Japanese Canadian boys please join a meeting on June 26, 2021. The The National Executive Board welcomes Naomi Japanese Canadian Working Group will be introducing Katsumi who is the successful candidate in the recent the Anglican Healing Fund. election that took place for the vacant secretary Pre-register at najc.ca/learn-about-the-anglican-healing-fund position. Naomi is a long-time volunteer in the Ottawa area for the Japanese Canadian community, Ottawa Japanese Community Association, women’s hockey league, and the organizer of the Ottawa Asian Hockey Classic. She is also a volunteer with the NAJC, most recently on the membership committee. Her volunteer efforts have been recognized with awards including the Governor General’s Sovereign Medal for Volunteers. We look forward to working with Naomi as a member of our volunteer board. Last month it was announced that former NEB board member Eiko Eby was appointed the Project Manager for the Japanese Canadian Survivors Health and Wellness Fund which was announced last month. Read more in the article posted at najc.ca Eiko will bring her wealth of experience as she works directly for Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society and will be doing outreach to Japanese Canadian communities across Canada.

Some of the work of the NAJC is reflected in upcoming events.

Also, a reminder, we have two deadlines coming up soon. The deadline for the NAJC Endowment Fund grant application is June 30, 2021. The NAJC Endowment Fund grants are available to organizations, groups and individuals to help develop Japanese Canadian culture, and support the athletic, artistic, and academic talents of Japanese Canadians. Information about the fund, application forms, Frequently Asked Questions, and the recording of the information session are posted on the NAJC website http://najc.ca/funds-and-awards/najc-endowment-fund/ Nomination deadline for the NAJC Dr. Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Award is June 30, 2021. Dr. Hirabayashi is widely respected for his courage and leadership in Canada and the USA. In 1942, when he was a college student, he deliberately violated the curfew imposed upon Japanese Americans and officially challenged the government order on the grounds that it violated his constitutional rights. For more information about the award go to our website. http://najc.ca/funds-and-awards/dr-gordonhirabayashi-human-rights-award/

On June 10-11 join experts, leaders, and community organizers across different sectors for the National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism. It is a two-day virtual event organized by the University of British Columbia. I have joined the steering committee and am excited that the NAJC is able to provide input into creating spaces for candid conversations about how to address the ongoing crisis of anti-Asian racism in Canada. For more Last month, Asian Heritage Month, provided the opportunity to highlight information and to register, visit https://bit.ly/3emrsp7 some stories and voices of Canadians of Asian ancestry. However, learning

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPANESE CANADIANS about the history of our country, our province and our city should not be limited to a designated month or day. The more we can learn about the contributions and history of Asian Canadians, the more we can break stereotypes, stop discrimination and build a thriving, caring society. For events that you missed, check out our archived recordings and interviews in the Past section of Online Programs on our website and also on the National Association Japanese Canadians YouTube channel. https://bit.ly/3bTpbA1 Also, regularly check for updates at http://najc.ca/online-programs/ as we add new online sessions. Sign up at http://najc.ca/subscribe/ for NAJC e-news and don’t miss any updates and information about our initiatives, events, opportunities, and news. The NEB wishes you a happy, safe June. Enjoy the increased daylight hours!

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NAJC Temporary Office Admin Position We have an exciting opportunity to directly contribute to our work for the Japanese Canadian community and to learn more about the work of the NAJC, a national non-profit organization. We have a 10-week full-time contract position for a NAJC office administrator. Applicants must be between 15 and 30 years of age (inclusive) at the start of employment as required under the Canada Summer Jobs program and must be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada. We would like to start the position as soon as possible in June 2021. For more information, please see the full posting at najc.ca

NAJC Statement on the Heartbreaking Discovery at the Kamloops Indian Residential School The National Association of Japanese Canadians National Executive Board honours the memory of the 215 children who never returned home from the Kamloops Indian Residential School which operated in the territory of the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation until 1978. Our thoughts are with the families, all survivors of residential schools and their families, and so many more families who never saw their children return. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission reported that over 3,000 children died in Indian Residential Schools across the country, and many were in unmarked graves. The last school did not close until 1996. NAJC accepted the invitation of Reconciliation Canada and the Indian Residential School Survivors Society to join a “shared journey of truth-telling, mourning and responsibility.” We will be wearing orange for other actions, and National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 will be another opportunity to show solidarity. We encourage others to show support. “Take meaningful action,” said Lorene Oikawa, NAJC President. “Canadians must commit to reconciliation and learn more about the history of Indigenous peoples and the Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” The Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line 1-866-925-4419 is available 24-hours a day for anyone experiencing pain or distress as a result of their Residential school experience.

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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

February 11 to September 5 A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC

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A Future for Memory, curated by Fuyubi Nakamura, MOA’s Curator for Asia, features works by eight artists, groups and institutions from Japan, tracing national museum the material and intangible effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake, commonly referred to as 3.11 in Japan after its date of occurrence on March 11, 2011. The exhibition highlights nature’s destructive impact on humans and its regenerative potential, and explores how humans live in harmony with nature, as well as how new connections and relationships have developed in the aftermath of this tragic event.

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Saturday August 14, 1 to 3pm Pactific Time 2021 GVJCCA Annual General Meeting

The 2021 GVJCCA Annual General Meeting will take place by zoom on Saturday August 14 from 1 to 3 pm. Information about the zoom connection for this meeting will be published in the June, July and August 2021 Bulletins. The GVJCCA Is also seeking new board members. Information about director nomination process will be published in June, July and August 2021 Bulletins.

First Friday of each month 7:30pm – 10pm First Friday Forum Tonari Gumi, 42 West 8th Avenue Please ensure you have updated your membership, note the 2021 Annual Music, diverse genres and cultures. General Meeting date and plan to attend. Standards, jazz, pop, classical, folk, world music. Poetry and other Join Zoom Meeting http://bit.ly/JCCA-AGM readings. Enjoy an evening of music, Meeting ID: 861 3830 0067 discussion, friendship. Admission by Passcode: 119563 donation, net proceeds go towards the Aoki Legacy Endowment Fund, The 35th edition of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival will stream UBC. this summer from June 25 to July 4. The First Friday Forum will be on hiatus until Tonari Gumi re-opens. Sharon Minemoto Quartet We look forward to seeing you all Friday, June 25, 2021 Frankie’s Jazz Club | 7:30pm | $20 again! Vancouver-based keyboardist/melodica player Sharon Minemoto is a swinging and sensitive performer with a highly melodic style. She is Tonari Gumi Facility also the composer of some very hip, original music that runs the gamut Limited Re-opening from introspective to funky, drawing wide-ranging influence from Herbie Hancock, Kenny Wheeler, Stevie Wonder, and Alexander Scriabin. Her The facility is open sublime and tasteful quartet features Jon Bentley saxophone, Darren for Library use and Radtke bass, and Bernie Arai drums. to provide Community Services Details: www.coastaljazz.ca/event/sharon-minemoto-quartet-4 by appointment. Please call Tonari Gumi, 604.687.2172 to make an appointment. The Paueru Gai Dialogues #6 Open from Monday to Thursday Reconsidering Land, History and Belonging 10am to 2pm Saturday, June 26, 2021 | 1pm PST / 4pm EST For VCH guidelines and opening Free online Zoom event details, please go to our website Registration Required www.tonarigumi.ca http://bit.ly/PGDno6 With guest host Sho and panelists Nicole Yakashiro, Mahlikah Awe:ri, and Paulette Moreno, Tkl Un’ Yeik.

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Toronto Japanese Film Festival The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s 10th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival (TJFF) will be presented in a hybrid format from June 5 to 27, 2021. During this period, TJFF screenings will be held online, with select onsite screenings at the JCCC’s Kobayashi Hall planned for October. The festival has now grown into one of the largest film events of its kind in the world and is recognized by the Japanese film industry as a vital conduit for bringing Japanese film to international audiences. North American and Canadian premieres include Hiroki Kadokawa’s foodie-friendly historical drama, Mio’s Cookbook, Keisuke Yoshida’s all-star boxing epic, Blue, Katsuhide Motoki’s period dramedy, Angry Rice Wives, Shuichi Okita’s surreal examination of aging and loneliness, Ora, Ora Be Goin’ Alone, Yuichi Fukuda’s manic manga adaptation and ode to highschool delinquency, From Today It’s My Turn!!, and Masayuki Suo’s delightful love letter to Japan’s silent film era, Talking The Pictures. The work of leading women directors are well-represented in this year’s line-up including Akiko Ohku’s Hold Me Back, winner of the Audience Choice Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Miwa Nishikawa’s Under The Open Sky, which features a searing career-best performance by Koji Yakusho, Naomi Kawase’s powerful story of motherhood True Mothers, which was Japan’s representative candidate for the Academy Awards, and Hitomi Kuroki’s historical fantasy The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono. Two of Japan’s top young stars Tadayoshi Okuda and Ryo Narita find one another in Isao Yukisada’s touching LGBTQ romance The Cornered Mouse Dreams Of Cheese, while photographer Yoshihiko Ueda’s debut feature A Garden Of The Camellias is a ravishingly beautiful examination of the exquisite transience

of life, and Michihito Fuji’s The Brightest Roof In The Universe is a whimsical comedy-drama that tells the tale of a troubled 14-year-old girl visited by a magical stranger. This year’s anime premiere is LIP x LIP FILM x LIVE, a hybrid anime movie and “live concert performance” by the popular “vocaloid” virtual popstars Lip x Lip. Documentaries include Eiji Sakata’s study of the world of sumo wrestling, Sumodo – Successors To The Samurai, Kazuma Tabei’s exploration of one of Uruguay’s most famous presidents, Hosé! Jose Mujica!, and Kimio Watanabe’s depiction of the 1965 Paralympic Games, Tokyo Paralympics: Festival Of Love And Glory. Other screenings include Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s intense family drama, Hope, Mitsuhito Fujii’s yakuza thriller, A Family, Rikiya Imaizumi’s compelling indie romance, Just Only Love, Anshul Chauhan’s multiple award-winning drama of buried family secrets, Kontora, Koichiro Miki’s adaptation of Wataru Watanabe’s popular cycling manga, Yowamushi Pedal: Up The Road, and Shinya Ayabe’s high-energy tale of food-obsession, School Meals Time: Final Battle. This year TJFF will offer individual tickets as well as All Access Festival Passes. Please enjoy the films at home with your family. Some films do address adult themes, so please check age recommendations. Films are presented through our online platform partner CINESEND. Individual tickets and All Access Passes will go on sale on in May, with ticket sales continuing through to the end of the festival on June 27. Check our website, social media and upcoming newsletter for more details.

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Dancing on the Edge Festival | July 8 - 17, 2021 The 33rd annual Dancing on the Edge Festival will kick off on July 8 with a live performance by internationally acclaimed Radical System Art/Shay Kuebler. Canada's oldest and longest-running contemporary dance festival will host live performances both indoor and outdoor for limited-sized eagerly awaiting audiences. This year's DOTE will once again deliver high calibre, challenging and cutting-edge dance featuring innovative and spellbinding works. In celebration of the 33rd Annual DOTE, the festival will include a presentation of over thirty online and live stage performances featuring artists from across Canada. On offer will be some specially curated digital programming with recorded online performances, premieres of dance films, dance discussions, outdoor live performances in the Firehall's Courtyard (for very limited audiences with safety precautions in place) and theatre performances with limited capacity, if permitted.

“The pandemic has had a devastating effect on the performing arts community and we are thrilled to be able to provide dance artists and companies both online and live performance opportunities to support and profile their work”. – Donna Spencer, Festival Producer Tickets on sale June 14 with prices ranging from $15 to $30 www.dancingontheedge.org

Seven commission projects, the COVID Commissions, will premier at this year's Dancing on the Edge Festival. Companies/choreographers presenting commissioned works include Ouro Collective, Raven Spirit Dance, Billy Marchenski, Immigrant Lessons, Generous Mess, Rob Kitsos and Meredith Kalaman. “We were thrilled to have offered this incentive, knowing that these commissions have enabled artists to keep creating new work, during this challenging time for all. Now more than ever we need our artists and we need to keep moving so the EDGE is working to support and encourage both.” The festival will also present works from acclaimed Canadian artists including Wen Wei Dance, Radical System Art/Shay Kuebler, Rachel Meyer, Inverso Productions/Lesley Telford, Dumb Instrument Dance/Ziyian Kwan, Alexis Fletcher/Vanessa Goodman, Future Leisure/Julianne Chapple, Company Ci/Gabrielle Martin, CAMP, Kirsten Wicklund, Shion Skye Carter & Kaiyuu, Peter Smida, and many more. Top: Billy Marchenski, Light-bearer, photo by Israel Seoane. Left: Shion Skye Carter, photo by Lula-Belle Jedynak.

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TG’s Powell Street days with the “gateballers” and Kay Fujishima Since Tonari Gumi’s start in 1974, dedicated volunteers helped bring the community together and held events that we remember to this day. In this issue, we highlight Kay Fujishima who brought joy to many through the sport of gateball. When Tonari Gumi was on Powell Street in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Oppenheimer Park was full of gateball players enjoying their game under the supervision of Kay Fujishima. Gateball is a popular team sport from Japan that was inspired by croquet. This fast-paced, highly strategic sport even convinced some people to switch from playing golf as they found gateball to be more competitive and fun. The fact that some members of gateball teams even went to tournaments held in Hawaii shows how much they loved the sport.

becoming homebound or moving into facilities. In fact, the above article on Kay-san and other volunteer highlights are prepared by Kikko-san, and her caring heart and respect for the seniors come through her writing. Thank you, Kikko-san, for helping the community. Read about Kikko-san on the BC Achievement Foundation website: www.bcachievement.com/awardee/ lurana-kikuko-kikko-tasaka/

Thank you for supporting TG and seniors in our community! Tonari Gumi would like to extend our gratitude to Mr. Ken Shinozaki, Ms. Sumiko Hui, and the Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation for their generous donations. We would also like to thank Mr. Jesse Johl and Ms. May Hamanishi of the Queen Elizabeth Lions Club and Ocean Brands for A few times a year, Kay held tournaments with teams their continued support for our Meals-on-Wheels program. Donations are from Tonari Gumi, the Vancouver Buddhist Temple and essential to organizations like TG in providing much-needed programs the Steveston Buddhist Temple, and the events were and services for Japanese Canadian seniors especially during the quite a sight, not to mention that Kay did a great job pandemic. of organizing. There were about a hundred members gathered in the park, all in their pure white uniforms, intently swinging their mallets. Those who came to watch their parents and grandparents must’ve been The Japanese Community Volunteers Association, “Tonari Gumi,” impressed as reporters from the Vancouver Sun and gratefully acknowledges and thanks the following people for their The Province certainly were. They happened to see generous donations received from April 20 to May 18, 2021. Although the gateball games at the park, and the papers gave we try our best, we may miss your name. Please contact us and we them front page coverage! will make a correction in the next issue. After Tonari Gumi moved from Powell Street, the weekly Monetary Donations Machiko Nakahori, Kimiko Higashi, Masayoshi Mineta games and tournaments moved to a new site at the Monetary Donations (The Benevity – Employees matching fund) Steveston Buddhist Temple. Kay held the community TELUS Communication Inc., Royal Bank of Canada of gateball players together over the years and helped In honor of Kikko Tasaka receiving BC Achievement Community Award promote the joy of the sport among many members of Bruce & Nan Tasaka the community. Thank you, Kay! In Kind Donations Keiko Watanabe, Masayoshi Mineta, Anonymous (2) Congratulations, Kikko-san! SOARING CRANE CAMPAIGN - GOLD CRANE Category Tonari Gumi was very proud to receive the news The Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation, Sumiko Hui, Ken Shinozaki (via Canada that Lurana Kikuko Tasaka - or Kikko-san as many of Helps) us call her, won the Community Award from the BC SOARING CRANE CAMPAIGN - FLORAL CRANE Category Achievement Foundation for her many years of service Tomoko Shibano, Mitsuko Mizuguchi (via Canada Helps, Monthly) for seniors. Kikko-san was a former staff at TG who has MONTHLY GIVING stayed with the organization as a very active volunteer. Monetary Donations Seiya Kuwabara (Floral), Sakiko Yoshida (Floral) She not only leads activity groups and brings donations Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) Yumi Takase, Tamotsu Nagata, Satomi to help TG and other organizations she supports, but Yamashita (Floral), David Iwaasa (Gold), Tsutae Suzuki (Floral), Emiko Morita (Floral), also stays in touch with seniors who are starting to lose Anonymous (Silver) their connection with friends and the community after

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THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE SOARING CRANES CAMPAIGN!

飛翔鶴寄付キャンペーンへのご支援ありがとうございました！

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Tonari Gumi would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the following members of the community who contributed to the Soaring Cranes Campaign between October 2020 and May 2021. The funds helped assist seniors in the midst of the pandemic. As we continue to provide support as the COVID situation evolves, we thank you for your continued support for Tonari Gumi and our seniors in the community. この度は飛翔鶴寄付キャンペーンを通し以下のたくさんの方々よりご寄付を賜りありがとうございました。2020年10月∼2021年5月の間に集められたご寄付によって、コロナ禍で支援を必要とするシニアへのサポートを提供することができました。コロナの状況が刻々と変化する今、隣組は新しいサービスやプログラムを始める準備をしています。どうぞ引き続きご支援の程よろしくお願いいたします。

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SILVER CRANE CATEGORY Homma, Shinobu | Horiuchi, Rinko | Komori, Kikuye | Nakahori, Chuichi | Okada, Larry SILVER CRANE CATEGORY – Monthly Giving Anonymous SILVER CRANE CATEGORY – Business Crux Strategic Clarity (Nishi, Karen)

ADDITIONAL DONORS Adachi, Taeko Aota, Atsuko Arai, Yoshio Aratake, Yukie Berwick, Taeko Cooper, Pauline Counter, Nao Englar, Elain Enomoto, Randall Ezaki, Naoko Fugeta, Leslay Fujisawa, Geraldine Fujishima, Kay Fujiwara, Etsuyo Fukuhara, Osamu Greenholtz, Hiroko Hamade, Kazuko Hamakawa, Mutsumi Hanazawa, Judy Hara, Thomas H. Hasebe, Tomoyuki Hashimoto, Atsumi Hashizume, Takuo Hastings, Yuko Hayashi, Takeo & Taeko Helgeth, Tae Higashi, Kimiko Hirate, Chie Hirate, Yoko Holowachuck, Diane Hoshino, Shigeko

Hughes, Naomi & Robert Ibaraki, Kikuko Ibuki, Betty Iida, Takanobu Inaoka, Michiko Ip, Virginia Jibiki, Kyo Kadota, Naoko Kanemitsu, Harue Kariatsumari, Carol Kataoka, Junko Katayama, Michiyo Kawase, Tad Kawase, Tama Kishida, Yoshie Kitada,Jitsuko Kitamura, June Komatsu, Shoji Komori, Art & Connie Kuno, Shuko Kurahashi, Dan Kuwabata, Masao Lashin, Emiko Li, Patrick Maeda, Mikiyo Makihara, Kazuko Mallet, Toyoko Masuhara, Doug Matsune, Dorothy Miki, Noriko Mineta, Masayoshi

Miyaji, Kazumi Miyata, Ken Miyata, Mitsuho Mizumoto, Masao Mizuta, Harry & Akemi Mizutani, Junji Mizutani, Tony Mori, Atsuko Mori, Fusako Morimoto, Tomie Morita, Katherine Emiko Mukai, Shioko & Sadao Nagata, Toshiko Nakahori, Machiko Nakamura, Sakukichi Nakanishi, Michael & Frances Nakata, Shirley Nakazawa, Seiko Nambu, Emi Nasu, James Nasu, Roberta Nielsen, Joy Ninagawa, Yukiko Nishi, Karen Nishihama, Sumiko Nishimura, Hiromichi Nishimura, Shawn Nishio, Don Nitta, Miyuki Norris, Clara Okazaki, Sachiko

Omatsu, Maryka Pretty, Sachiko Saito, Yoshiko Sakai, Haruko Sakamoto, Michael Santa Cruz, Jerry Sasaki, Toshiko Sato, Keisuke C Schmidt, Masa Seo, Midori Sheburoﬀ, Shizu Shibata, Kazuhiro Shibusawa, Kyoko Shimizu, Shoko Shimokura, Joyce Soya, Kayo Stuart, Hiroko Sugawara, Takashi Suzuki, David Tabata, Toshiko Tabata, Toshiko Takahashi, Tami Takasaki, Mayumi Takasaki, Nancy Tanaka, Hisako Tanaka, Patricia Tani, Michiko Tanno, Mutsu Tasaka, Chuck Tasaka, Sian Tasaka, Bruce & Nan

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FLORAL CRANE CATEGORY Bosshardt, Yasuyo | Enomoto, Dennis Hamakawa, Miyuki Hamanishi, Michael & Judy Ikeuchi, Akiko | Leung, Cecilia Matsumoto, Sachiko Murata, Tomiko (MURATA) Nakahori, Machiko | Onishi, Masao Parker, Keiko | Shibano, Tomoko Shibata, Yuko | Takahashi, Kazuko Takizawa, Yasuo | Tsuda, Saeko Waslen, Mark | Yamamoto, Yoshiteru Anonymous (2) FLORAL CRANE CATEGORY – Monthly Giving Kuwabara, Seiya | Mizuguchi, Mitsuko Morita, Katherine Emiko Suzuki, Tsutae | Yamashita, Satomi Yoshida, Sakiko FLORAL CRANE CATEGORY – Business, Non-Profit Org, Group Hockey Club (Noda, Catherine) Urban Impact Recycling Ltd. Wailele Wai Wai Tateishi, Miwako Business, Non-Proﬁt Org, Toki, Yoko Group Trudel, Kunie Canada Helps Tsuruta, Fumie Kami Insurance Agencies Tsuyuki, Nancy Ltd. Tsuzuki, Shizuka PayPal Giving Foundation Uemura, Julia Canada Uwasa, Yoshiko Royal Bank of Canada Uyeda, Roy Telus Communication Washbourne, Kimo The Benevity Community Watanabe, Keiko Impact Fund Williams, Eileen Wilson, Hazumi Woloshyn, Fumiko Wong, Terry & Nellie Yabuno, Tokumi Yakashiro, Emily Yamashiro, Takeo Yamashiro, Takeo Yano, Irene Yip, Stan Yoshida, Christine Hisami

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The Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden

Tonari Gumi Garden Club at the Nikkei Farmers Market! by Makiko Suzuki Meet TGGC volunteers at the Nikkei Farmers Market, Sunday June 13 and June 27, then on the fourth Sunday from July to October. The TGGC table will feature Japanese vegetable seeds and seedling plants such as Shiso plants red, green and Hosiji (shiso variety for seed pods) Hanamame red and white seeds and starts Japanese cucumber Summer Dance and Tasty Emperor To m a t o e s S u n g o l d , Japanese Black Trifele and possibly Momotaro starts Pepper Shishito Nira, Shungiku and flowers like Carl Chilton White Dahlia tubers as well as Tonari Gumi gardening and cook books, beautiful handcrafted Japanese obento carriers, greeting cards, three-layer silk masks, and much more will be available. Proceeds from the market sales support the programs and services at Tonari Gumi. June is ideal for planting out Japanese Tomatoes “Japan has a long history of breeding fine vegetables; a country-wide trend toward vegetarianism lasted for 1200 years from the Nara to the Meiji period. During this time much effort was expended creating the most nutritious and scrumptious vegetables to serve as the pillar of the Japanese diet.” https://www.rareseeds.com seeds-of-japan Somehow “Japanese tomatoes” did not sound right. Research revealed the absolutely delicious ‘Japanese Black Trifele’ variety TGGC is growing is not of Japanese origin! The dark black potato leafed variety is of Russian origin, first offered in North America in the Seed Savers 1999 Yearbook. The proper name is ‘Yaponskiy Trufel Chernyi’. The seed came to North America translated as “Japanese Trifele Black”.

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Nevertheless, many outstanding Japanese varieties have been created. Tomatoes and potatoes are of the solanum ‘nightshade’ family that originated from the slopes of the Andes. Tomatoes are believed to have arrived in Japan via Europe between the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. The plants were initially sold as an ornamental or for medicinal purposes. Focus shifted to being a food crop during the Meiji Era (1867 – 1912). After WWII, as the population became exposed to western style foods, interest in tomatoes as a food increased rapidly. During the 1960s industrial tomato processing developed and demand increased further. However, open-pollinated tomatoes proved unreliable and were prone to disease. Japanese seed companies countered by creating stronger varieties through cross-pollinating (F1). Hybridization, a process involving up to a decade of experimentation, improved taste and increased yields and disease resistance. Many new varieties of ‘Japanese tomatoes’ were introduced. The most popular tomato in Japan is the ‘Momotaro’ developed by Takii Seed Corporation’ in 1985. This vigorous, pink-fleshed tomato is named after the hero of Japanese folklore, Momotaro, the ‘Peach Boy.’ While Momotaro tomatoes are not available commercially outside of Japan, it is still an award-winning variety and popular in home gardens in North America and England. Kitazawa Seed Company (California) and Territorial Seeds (Oregon) carry Momotaro seeds but do not ship to Canada. Luckily, seeds were sourced from Japan and this year TGGC is currently growing Momotaro in test gardens. When Tsutomu Tokita, Chairman, Tokita Seeds, experienced cherry tomatoes on a visit to the United States in 1973, he saw opportunities for a small sweet tomato. As a result, cherry tomatoes became a popular addition to bento boxes.

Tokita Seeds developed the Sungold cherry tomatoes variety in 1992. Demand for their sweet almost fruity flavour grew steadily. Seeds and seedlings of Sungold tomatoes are now a common offering of European and North American garden centres. Sungold tomatoes can also be found at local farmer’s markets. TOMATO FACTS Momotaro F1 • Extra-early maturing – 70 days • Indeterminate, producing throughout the growing season • Pink flesh: sweet and tangy flavour • Each cluster can produce up to 7 fruits, usually weighing about 220 grams each • Strong and highly tolerant to fungal and virus diseases Sungold F1

Japanese Black Trifele OP • Late maturing – 80 days – open pollination • Indeterminate with prolific yields of medium pear shaped purple black fruit having green shoulders • Flavour described as rich smoky/salty. Delicious fresh and an excellent canning choice; the fruit holds its flavour and colour well. Tonari Gumi Garden Club will be featuring these popular tomatoes along with many other wonderful vegetables, herbs and flowers at Nikkei Farmers Market - at the perfect time to start planting out. Hope to see you there! Please note: Due to the late arrival of the Momotaro seeds these starts along with another fabulous local variety Paul’s Special – a huge, juicy, heavy producing indeterminate tomato will be offered at the June 27th market. Nikkei Farmers Market Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC

• Early maturing – 65 days • Indeterminate vine, produces throughout the growing season • Orange fruit with sweet fruity flavor, especially if left to ripen on the vine • Vigorous growth: provide support - vines can reach 6-8 feet. • Highly tolerant to fungal and virus disease

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Watada continued fiancé), the program is problematic. On the plus side, no David Carradine character anywhere in sight. Bruce Lee would’ve been happy since he was rejected because of race. The central character is also an Asian American woman, certainly a first, besides Michelle Yeoh naturally. The protagonist is female and Chinese American – Nicky Shen. Her Tiger Mom kicks the whole thing off by sending her to China to find an Asian spouse. She defies her mother and escapes to a Shaolin monastery. She stays for three years, learning the disciplined art of kung fu. The monastery then is attacked and destroyed by Ninja-like thugs (?), everyone including her mentor is killed. Nicky herself is wounded by the antagonist Zhilan with a magical sword. Nicky returns to her home in San Francisco to fight her foes. The fight scenes are well choreographed with no rapid camera cuts to obscure the battle. Audience members can enjoy the intricacies of the fight rather than get confused by the silly action. On the negative side, the plot makes no sense. Why is she in San Francisco to recover the sword and defeat Zhilan? Wouldn’t she have to stay in China? Stereotypes abound: The Tiger Mom wants her daughter to go back to … wait for it … law school. In fact, Harvard Law School. Are there no other law schools in America? Nicky had dropped out for some obscure reason. Nicky refuses and is disowned. She has a brother who is … wait again … a medical student, and a sister who is (what else?) a tech expert. She does have an affable, easy going and understanding father, played by the consummate Tzi Ma, who owns a Chinese restaurant (naturally) and has waited (three years!) for his daughter to finish a game of go (isn’t that Japanese?). Bruce Lee may have come up with the original concept, but I wonder how he would feel about both old and new iterations. The series Warrior is truer to his vision, I’m sure, and much truer to reality (to an extent) than this chop-socky (the nickname for this kind of show). And then there is Chloé Zhao, winner of the 2021 Oscar for Best Director. See what happens when there is visibility and representation. Note: Terry Watada is now on hiatus. He will return in the fall.

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Limelight Longtime Tonari Gumi staff member and volunteer Kikko Tasaka has been recognized as one of 25 individuals selected province-wide to receive a BC Achievement Community Award. https://www. bcachievement.com/awardee/lurana-kikuko-kikkotasaka/ In the press release announcing this year's awardees, Premier John Horgan and Foundation Chair Giardini, made the following comments: “This year’s Community Awardees are, without exception, remarkable British Columbians who have strengthened their communities during challenging times,” said Premier John Horgan. “As a result of their commitments to causes beyond themselves, they have ensured that BC is a better province for all of us.” “It is a particular honour this year to recognize these twenty-five outstanding British Columbians,” added Giardini. “This year’s recipients exemplify the spirit of the Community Award. Celebrating their achievements honours the very best of our province and inspires us all to public service and excellence.” TG Board Chair David Iwaasa tells The Bulletin, “We at Tonari Gumi are thrilled and honoured that Kikko has been selected for this award and feel that it is first a tribute to her and her dedication in helping the isolated and vulnerable within our community, but it is also a recognition of the important work that Tonari Gumi is doing.” According to David, previous JC recipients of the ward include Bud Sakamoto (Steveston) in 2004, Hitoshi (Tosh) Saito (Mayne Island) in 2007, Jim Kojima (Richmond) in 2009 and Richard Murakami (Salt Spring Island) in 2010.

Lurana Kikuko (Kikko) Tasaka Lurana (Kikko) has been a dedicated volunteer committed to helping vulnerable seniors for more than 25 years. As a child whose family was interned in Greenwood, following displacement from Steveston in 1943, she subsequently devoted herself to caring for others. Today Kikko is the driving force behind seniors care at the Japanese Community Volunteers Association (Tonari Gumi). Firstly, as a staff member for ten years, then as a volunteer for the last 20 years, Kikko has devoted herself to supporting seniors who were either alone or isolated due to language and cultural barriers. She is also an enthusiastic fundraiser for community organizations and her church, ensuring funds are available to assist seniors in need. Kikko’s motivation, determination, passion and commitment to helping seniors have sustained Tonari Gumi which now has more than 300 members and over 200 volunteers. www.bcachievement.com/awardee/lurana-kikuko-kikko-tasaka

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Milestones YOKOTA, Aileen October 8, 1941 – May 19, 2021 Aileen Reiko Takata was born to Reiji & Tokiwa Takata as the first and only daughter of their three children. Her younger brothers were Ken and Gordon, but Gordon died at a young age. Since her mom died when the children were still quite small, Aileen had to assume the role of their mother on many occasions. While active as a Christian youth, she met a young missionary belonging to the Canadian Japanese Mission, now called the Canadian Japanese Ministries in Toronto. His name was Stan Yokota, whom she later married on August 1, 1964. They both became missionaries to begin a pioneer work in Vancouver less than a year later. While they were entrenched in their youth ministry, they were unexpectedly called by the Mission to return to Toronto and pick up the church work left by Rev. Edward Yoshida in 1968. Locating their new residence at Hopedale Ave. in E. York, they plunged into their ministry, especially Youth Ministry and summer camps/Retreats. While Pastor Stan was a fulltime worker, Aileen had to work as a teacher because Mission income was inadequate, especially after their only son, Darryn, arrived. This allowed them to locate an ideal home on Regency Square, Scarboro, where they resided since. The present-day Japanese Gospel Church of Toronto is the fruit of their sacrificial ministry since its inception. Many members of their present membership were introduced to Christ through Aileen and Stan, after many years of faithful ministries.

were the apple of his eye and special companion Nancy. He is also survived by his sister Dawn (Gordon), nephew Mark (Kristie) and grand nephews Jaxon and Lincoln. He will be missed by friends Phil Bond and Jackie Hanna.

Tom (Hiroko) Soga; sisters Aiko (Hiroshi) Terashita, and Yukie (Tohoru) Kondo; children Grace (Gary), and Martin (Hiroko); and many nieces, nephews and their children. concolences can be left on the Dignity Memorial website.

Greg was a below average golfer, but loved every minute on the course. He was a Montreal Canadiens fan and a connoisseur of scotch. Greg worked most of his life in the construction industry, taking personal pride in delivering quality builds.

MIYASHITA, Frances Miyoko Our family’s shining light passed away peacefully at home with loved ones by her side. Predeceased by her loving husband, Reginald (Reggie) Hideo, precious son, Mark, and dear sister, Kathleen (Kay) Kariya, she will always be deeply missed by her children, Becky (Doug), Ellis (Maureen), Karen (Josh), Patti (Al); grandchildren, Mark (Theresa), Rachel (Russell), Elizabeth Reiko (Will), Amanda (Patrick), Alison (Trish), Matthew (Olivia); and great granddaughters, Peyton and Alexis.

There will be no service at Greg’s request. If desired, donations to the BC Cancer Foundation would honor him and his family. HIROSE, Tadahiko (Ted) It is with great sadness that the family of Tadahiko (Ted) Hirose shares that he passed away on May 8, 2021, at the age of 83 years. Ted will forever be lovingly remembered by his wife Mary and three sons, Brian (Michelle), David (Kendra) and Craig (Tianna), as well as his siblings Kathy, Sachiyo, Eddy (Judy) and Setsuko (Greg) and his sister-in-law Cathy. Ted was predeceased by his brother Arthur and brother-in-law, Karl. He will be missed immensely by his grandchildren Alyssa, Kayley, Ava, Chelsea, Josh and Alyssa, and by all of the friends and family who had the pleasure of knowing him. There will be a private family service held on May 21. In lieu of flowers and koden, please consider making a donation to the Steveston Buddhist Temple or to the charity of your choice.

When she was called to her eternal heavenly home on Wednesday, May 19th, due to pancreatic cancer, she heard the welcoming voice of Jesus, saying: WE WERE WAITING FOR YOU...THIS IS YOUR ETERNAL HOME NOW! MATSUTANI, Yoshie 1929 – 2021 A private Burial Service will take place at the direction Yoshie Matsutani, 92, passed away peacefully on April 22, 2021. She of McDougal & Brown Funeral Home at a later date. was born in Vancouver, BC, but (submitted by officiant, E. S. Yoshida) grew up in Japan with her siblings HASHIMOTO, Gregory Shinya May 9, 1948 – May Kazue, Tom, Aiko and Yukie. Upon 9, 2021. Greg passed away on his birthday after an return to Canada, she married unexpectedly brief battle with cancer. He is survived Hidehiro in 1956, and had children by his beloved sons Michael (Jenn) and Elliott Grace and Martin. (Gemma), grandchildren Brooklyn and Bennett who Yoshie is survived by her brother,

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Frances had lived at Holy Family Residence since 2012 but, last June, moved into Karen and Josh’s home, where she was pampered and surrounded with love. Frances was an incredible woman; family and friends embraced her lively spirit, kind heart, sparkling personality, boundless energy and cheerful nature. She was highly sociable and often the center of attention, but most of all, a loving mother and cherished Granny Franny. Her family would like to thank the Holy Family staff and Dr. Richard Hay for their wonderful care and support. A family grave-side service was held at Ocean View Cemetery. Flowers and koden are gratefully declined. MIYAZAKI, Takemi (Tak) August 1, 1929 – May 21, 2021 It is with heavy hearts that the family of Takemi (Tak) Miyazaki announce the passing of our dear father, grandfather and great-grandfather on May 21, 2021 at the age of 91. He will forever be remembered by his children Debbie, Patti (Dave), Gary, Derek (Laura), grandchildren Brandon, Kevin (Gina), Jordanna, Graycen, Dany, Shelby & Jasper

and great grandchildren Parker & Norah, as well as his sister Sayoko and brother Bill (Evelyn) and many nieces and nephews. Tak was predeceased by his beloved wife Susie in 2018, his parents Takeo & Shizue, siblings Kimiyo, Keigo and Miyeko. He was born and raised in Steveston where he was a commercial fisherman, troller/gillnetter on his boat the “Debbie Pat”.

MORI, Robert On Sunday, May 2, 2021 Robert “Bob” Takashi Mori passed away following a brief illness, at the age of 76. Bob was born the sixth of ten children to Keizo and Michiko Mori in Vernon, BC on April 23, 1945. Feel free to leave an electronic message of condolence for Bob’s family at www.forestlawn-burnaby.com

TAKENO, Kevin It is with a heavy heart that we announce that our brother, Kevin, passed away on May 6, 2021 at the age of 51. With a personality He was a dedicated member of the Steveston Buddhist larger than life, he will be forever remembered for his generous spirit Temple, volunteering at the weekly Wednesday night and incredible determination. Predeceased by his father and mother, bingo and also served as President. He was heavily Roy and Yaye, he is survived by his brother, Roger and sister Sandy. May involved with the Steveston Japanese community, the you rest in peace. Steveston Judo Club and also represented Steveston for the Japanese Canadian Redress settlement. In retirement he became an avid Gateball player and he could be spotted on his daily walks at Garry Point with continued his devoted dogs Bear, Michi and Kinta.

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We would like to extend our very special thank you to his “Brookside Family”, the fabulous doctors, nurses, aids and staff at the Brookside Lodge in Surrey for their loving, compassionate care to Tak for the last two years, especially in the last Covid year. Also to the staff at Glenwood Care Centre in Agassiz where he stayed for almost three years prior.

tracted and they don’t know where to start.” Haruko’s thought-provoking question led naturally into the breakout rooms. These rooms are invaluable, an opportunity to connect with other participants and share thoughts and feelings brought to the surface by the presentation. The breakout rooms generated the long list of questions on page 18 – the dōkana – the “what if” questions that arise.

A private family memorial will be held on May 29. In My breakout room, moderated by the wonderful and ubiquitous Kathy lieu of flowers and koden, please consider making a donation to the Steveston Buddhist Temple or a charity Shimizu, was a validating experience, particular once we realized that, ironically, none of us were capable of keeping green things alive in our of your choice. homes. Once we let got of that idea, we were able to get down to the questions at hand and explore our connections to nature, which manifest in different ways. One thing we could agree on was that the pandemic has increased our connection to nature, even as we are kept apart from each other. I’m largely moving to cultivating and building a world where we can develop elastic relationships with one another by building social trust through collaboration and through the practice of translation. In other words, translating ideas and ourselves across a broad demographic of people working within different cultural communities, ontologies, industries, disciplines, realities, and experiences, and I do that active translation through ﬁlm and storytelling. I think what I care about the most in what I do at its core is about creating and optimizing spaces for people to be recognized, accepted, loved and most importantly to forge collaborative relationships where we can bring our wonderfully weird and wonderfully queer arty selves to the table. – Jen Sungshine It can be tiring in terms of the grief that one feels at this destruction, but the way to deal with the grief is to act togethe,r to remain related in relationship, and care like Jen was talking about and to keep building kinship. – Rita Wong There’s a systems change that we’re talking about right that we’re working towards and yes, individual change is important and we can work on it individually, but we need a collective approach, we need a system change. So you know, not getting too caught up in the little one-off things but thinking about the bigger picture I think can actually help us get on the same page. – T’uy’t’tanat – Cease Wyss

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei & on Cultural Ni kNational k ei PlMuseum ace D a ti Centre on s

Honouring, Preserving, and Sharing Japanese Culture and Japanese Canadian History and Heritage for a Better Canada centre.nikkeiplace.org | 604.777.7000 | info@nikkeiplace.org CURRENT EXHIBITS 展示

WHAT’S ONSITE 館内にて開催 Reception | Gallery | Museum Shop: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00am - 5:00pm Sunday & Monday Closed Nikkei Bookstore 日系ブックストア: Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, 11:00am - 3pm Nikkei Garden Farmers’ Market 2nd & 4th Sundays from June to October | 10am to 2pm — Every other week, 12 - 16 vendors will be selling Japanese food and fresh vegetables. Our gallery and museum shop will be open during the market. Check for updates: centre.nikkeiplace.org/events/nikkei-farmers-market/ 日系ファーマーズマーケット 6月から10月の第2＆第4日曜日｜午前10時から午後2時隔週（又は１週間おき）に、12から16軒の日系のベンダーさんが集まり、日本の食べ物や野菜などをお買い求めいただけます。マーケット開催中はギャラリーとミュージアムショップもオープン予定です。詳細は随時ウェブサイトに更新されます。

MUSEUM SHOP ミュージアムショップ [FEATURE] Limited Edition “Amabie” enamel pin by Cindy Mochizuki. An Amabie, a mermaid-like creature in Japanese mythology, is a symbol of protection and healing in times of disease and epidemic. Available in our online shop, or contact us in advance to purchase in-store. https://nnmcc.square.site

Broken Promises Extended to June 5 – Main Floor Hours: Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm $5 admission, members and students free Lost and Found

Kagetsu/Seymour Logging Camp 2F Kadota Landing

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

MEMBERSHIPS 会員 The Nikkei Centre is always welcoming new members. Membership income helps us to maintain facilities, follow COVID-19 guidelines, and to enhance exhibits, events and programs. Membership Benefits Include: • Free admission to the museum • Discounts at the museum shop and for certain events and programs • Attendance to the NNMCC AGM Visit: https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/support-us/membership/ for more details. SUPPORT 日系文化センター・博物館をサポートする方法 You can support our cultural programs, exhibits, research, and outreach education with a single or monthly donation. Gifts can be made by phone, mail or online. Contact Nikkei Place Foundation for donation infomation: 604.777.2122 or gifts@nikkeiplacefoundation.org

NIKKEI IMAGES 日系イメージ Nikkei Images is a publication that focuses on the history of Nikkei in Canada. Included here is an excerpt from the War Memorial Issue produced in spring 2020 — Volume 25, Issue No.1, Nikkei Images. Continue reading and find past issues on our website: https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/research/ nikkei-images/

Matsunoshin Abe, President of the CJA 1919-1921 | By Linda Kawamoto Reid “Matsunoshin Abe, as president of the Canadian Japanese Association (CJA), was chosen by the Japanese Canadian community to preside over the dedication of the Japanese Canadian War Memorial in Stanley Park on April 9, 1920. It was a big deal for the JC community and historically the CJA had much to do with facilitating the initial 1916 training of the soldiers in Vancouver under Colonel Colquhoun, funding their passage to Alberta to enlist, and fundraising for the monument itself. The cenotaph was dedicated on Vimy Day in Canada. The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a huge victory for the Canadian Army, and as Sergeant Masumi Mitsui, (Military Medal) said “The French army tried but they couldn’t do it, next, the English but they could not get over. Then the Canadians went in. We took Vimy Ridge.” Sergeant Mitsui led a group of fearless Japanese Canadian soldiers in the ‘fighting Tenth Battalion’, one of the many battalions with Japanese Canadians, which contributed to the victory. For these heroic efforts, the CJA decided to honour the ones who returned and the ones who didn’t by building the War Memorial. The names of all the soldiers, including those who perished, are engraved on the cenotaph.”

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society NIKKEI SENIORS’ FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN AND THE JAPANESE CANADIAN SURVIVORS HEALTH & WELLNESS FUND On May 5, 2021, Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society (Nikkei Seniors) received a $2 million grant from the Province of British Columbia to develop and implement a program to benefit Japanese Canadian survivors who were directly impacted by the actions of the BC Government (1942-1949). The fund will create grants for the provision of health and wellness programs, activities and needs for the now-elderly survivors of the internment, many of whom have relocated to other parts of Canada. Nikkei Seniors welcomes this grant and has started the work to open a Japanese Canadian Survivors Health and Wellness Fund project office so that it can start making grants available.

the Japanese Canadian Survivors Health and Wellness Fund. Eiko will be working directly for Nikkei Seniors and will lead the Project working in tandem with Cathy Makihara and Ruth Coles.

Eiko Eby is a yonsei (4th generation) whose parents were both directly impacted by the government actions which forcibly uprooted, dispossessed, and displaced the lives of almost 22,000 Japanese Canadians living in BC. She honours the memory of her parents, grandparents and great grandparents in her extensive Coincident with the receipt of this grant, Nikkei Seniors launched a fund- community work. Eiko feels the approach to healing raising drive – “Inspire Action – Tub, Tech, Reboot” to raise much needed can be made through the lens of wellness. funds for the ongoing programs and activities of Robert Nimi Nikkei Home, Eiko was on the Board of the Central Vancouver Island New Sakura-so, and Outreach. The provincial grant and the fundraising Japanese Canadian Cultural Society from 1987 until activities occurring simultaneously has caused some confusion as to 2021, serving as President for the past 19 years before the need for a fundraising drive when the Society is in receipt of a large passing the torch to another great volunteer. She has government grant. worked on numerous committees for the National AsTo clarify, the $2 million grant is for the Japanese Canadian Survivors sociation of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) and considers Health and Wellness Fund for Japanese Canadian survivors across Cana- her experience learning from Art Miki on the core team da. The fundraising drive “Inspire Action” is to raise funds for the operations of the Community Renewal Fund as a moment when and programs and activities at Robert Nimi Nikkei Home, New Sakura-so she discovered the importance of national outreach. A and Outreach. The support from the community is very much needed. member of the National Executive Board of the NAJC With the Covid-19 pandemic causing the cancellation for a second year for four years 2016-2020 as Director then Secretary, of Nikkei Seniors major fundraiser, the Board is asking the community for she holds her contribution to the groundwork for the support. To this end the “Inspire Action- Tub, Tech, and Reboot” fundraiser first talks on BC Redress as closest to her heart. Eiko also served the full 6 year term as a member of the was launched. We hope that the community will be inspired by the goals Community Council of the University of Victoria-led of the campaign to help our seniors. Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective. The Nikkei Seniors is excited about this opportunity to work on this onceHealth and wellness is a foundation of Eiko’s career in-a-lifetime Japanese Canadian Survivors Health and Wellness Fund, and practice as a Professor of Kinesiology at Vancouver Iswe are pleased to have Ms. Eiko Eby as the Project Manager, working land University from where she is set to retire. In 2018, closely with Cathy Makihara and Ruth Coles to roll out the grants. Eiko received the Vancouver Island University PresiThe community’s understanding of and dent’s Award for Outstanding Community Engagement. support for both these initiatives are greatly Eiko was a member of the Canadian National Women’s appreciated. Over 55 Field Hockey Team that competed in the World Cup in 2018. A devout wife, mother and sister to her Eiko Eby, to lead Japanese four siblings, Eiko is reliable in her relationships and Canadian Survivors Health and true to her commitment to the community. Wellness Fund Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society is pleased to announce the appointment of Eiko Eby as the Project Manager for

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Place Foundation Donations N i k k ei Pl a c e D on a ti on s NIKKEI PLACE is comprised of three organizations: Nikkei Place Foundation, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, and Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society. Please visit www.nikkeiplace.org — our organizations are making updates on our websites and social media channels in reponse to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic. 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 inquiries, please contact gifts@nikkeiplacefoundation.org.

Thank You for Supporting Nikkei Place! Gifts from April 26, 2021 — May 20, 2021 inclusive DONATIONS Anonymous (2) Harjinder Bharaj Iva Delic Jay Haraga Soya Kayo Rupert Lee Linda Li Imogene Lim Nora & Ronald MacArthur Hideko Onouye Michael Saito Tracey Tabata Jenny Uechi Yasuhiko Yamamoto Kenichiro Yamanaka LEAFS Visionary Jane Nimi

Robert & Cathey K. Hoogerbrug George Koyanagi Kumi Sutcliffe Layne Yoshimaru Orange Anonymous (2) Thomas Hara Yuki Kurozumi Edward & Jennifer Nakamoto Joyce & Ray Shimokura Peter & Masako Stillwell Toshiko Tabata Robert Yoshimaru Green Toshie Hosonuma Asako Kitamura-Redman Sue Miyanishi Margaret Shinozaki Keiko Yakumo

Edward & Jennifer Nakamoto Dr. Patrick & Diane Miki Naoto Horita Inc. Jane Nimi Ken & Junko Shinozaki Margaret Shinozaki Kumi Sutcliffe Michael Takahashi Jenny Uechi Fred & Linda Yada Emily Yakashiro & Philip Storey Keiko Yakumo Yasuhiko Yamamoto Sam Yamamoto Kenichiro Yamanaka Layne Yoshimaru Robert Yoshimaru

HONOURS & TRIBUTES In Honour of Ruth Coles, Boss, Mentor, Friend and the social Ambassador INSPIRE ACTION CAMPAIGN workers with whom I have Sam Yamamoto Bob & Katsi Abe had the privilege to serve Ken & Junko Shinozaki Anonymous (7) Anonymous Harjinder Bharaj Builder Dr. Patrick & Diane Miki Combined Painting (1985) Ltd. In Memory of Mark Ando Masashi & Reiko Moizumi Thomas Hara Platinum In Memory of Fumi Hamagami Jay Haraga Fred & Linda Yada Gloria Joe Kelvin & Kay Higo Gold George & Elaine Homma In Memory of Mitsuo Hayashi Anonymous Robert & Cathey K. Hoogerbrug Urasenke Tankokai Vancouver Toshie Hosonuma Copper Association George & Elaine Homma Gloria Joe In Memory of Kanako & Paul & Diana Kariya Bronze Takeo Kariya Soya Kayo Naoto Horita Inc. Paul & Diana Kariya Asako Kitamura-Redman George Koyanagi Burgundy In Memory of Shiori Koyanagi Yuki Kurozumi Anonymous Kazuko Shimozawa Julie Lee Red In Memory of Miyoko Frances Rupert Lee Bob & Katsi Abe Miyashita Imogene Lim Anonymous Dorothy Yamamoto Nora & Ronald MacArthur Combined Painting Sue Miyanishi In Memory of George Ogawa (1985) Ltd. Masashi & Reiko Moizumi Ronald Okada & Carol Nishi Kelvin & Kay Higo

In Memory of George Oshiro Hanako Oye Emily Yakashiro & Philip Storey Linda Kawamoto Reid Jim & Norma Sawada In Memory of Rosie Audrey Shimozawa Yoshiko Otani Eva Shiho John & Carol-Anne Kamitakahara Barbara Shishido Patsy Mayede Charlotte Takasaki In Memory of Faye Taeko Sharlene A. Tabata Takahashi Joyce C. Takeshita Michael Takahashi Darlene Tanaka & Trevor Jones Grace Tanaka In Memory of Jujiro Ginzo & Harue Udagawa Takeuchi (Jusan Tenning) Hisako Wada Amy Rosalie Newstead (nee Tenning), Lorie, Deborah & Fred & Linda Yada Chris, Jan Yamamoto & Family Douglas Newstead Norine K. Yamamoto In Memory of Lin Hee Yoon Sam Yamamoto Julie Lee Tatsuo & Mariko Yamamoto Gwendolyn Yip & Santa Ono MONTHLY GIVING Anonymous (3) HERITAGE ESTATE Carina Abe GIVING CIRCLE Ian & Debbie Burgess Yoshiharu Hashimoto Brian & Marcia Carr George & Elaine Homma Patricia H. Chan Betty Issenman Michael & Ruth Coles Sato Kobayashi Grant Dustin Cathy Makihara Masami Hanashiro Robert & Jane Nimi Junichi & Atsumi Hashimoto Carrie Okano Tad & Mitsuko Hosoi Linda Kawamoto Reid Shaun Inouye Richard & Gail Shinde Kenneth & Bernadine Isomura Norman Shuto Mary F. Kawamoto Haruko Takamori Satoko Kobayashi Sian Tasaka Katsuko (Kitty) Kodama Fred & Linda Yada Greciana Langamon Sam Yamamoto Tommy Li We thank and honour Stewart Kawaguchi the legacy gifts made Ted Kawamoto by our supporters Catherine Makihara following their passing: Masako & Ken Moriyama Anne Motozono Tamiko Corbett Roberta H. Nasu Estate of Mitsuo Hayashi Takeshi & Mizuho Ogasawara Estate of Nancy Machiko Chris Oikawa Cameron

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バンクーバー日本語学校並びに日系人会館

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ンクーバー日本語学校再開プラン＆お申込みに関して

本校では、2021 年 9 月から対面授業の再開に向けて準備を進めております。多くの保護者や生徒の皆様から、直接会って交流・活動したいという声をお聞きしており、そのために必要な対策を講じております。

キンダークラス、小学科、基礎科、中学科、高等科、社会人向けの各クラスは、コロナ禍以前のカリキュラムで実施します。中高生向けの課外活動や、選択科目として人気のある書道クラスなども再開します。また平日夜クラスは今年７月と 9 月に開講し、年間を通して受講いただけます。

進めて参ります。私たちは出来るだけ多くのクラスで対面授業ができるよう緊急時対応計画を策定しています。感染状況が悪化した場合、これらの詳細を保護者の皆様、生徒の皆さんにお伝えします。チャイルドケアと VJLS の職員で構成される健康・安全委員会は、最新の情報と実践に基づいてプロトコル（手順）を日々更新しています。生徒とそのご家族の安全を守るために、階段、机、共有スペースなどは毎授業後に消毒し、毎晩プロによる清掃を行います。また皆様には引き続きマスクの着用と、建物に入る前の COVID 19 のモニタリングとチェックの遵守をお願い致します。

入学式や年末の発表会などの重要なイベントや、餅つき、節分、七夕などの伝統文化行事に合わせた活動も再開する予定です。また、キッチンで作った食事を多くの方に楽しんでいただいておりますので、ボランティアの方々のご協力を得て、今後も提供していきたいと考えています。

手順についてご不明な点がございましたら、info@vjls-jh.com までお問い合わせください。

ワクチン接種率が進み感染者数が減少傾向にあることから私たちは学校再開を願っておりますが、コロナを取り巻く状況は刻々と変化しておりますので、州保健局の Dr. ヘンリーが定めた制限の範囲内で計画を

皆様との再会を心待ちにしております。

来年度のお申し込みや、料金、プログラム、予定されているアクティビティなどの詳細については、www.vjls-jh.com/register をご確認ください。

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隣組隣組ボランティア・スポットライト：ケイ・フジシマさん隣組が 1974 年にスタートして以来、数多くの献身的なボランティアがコミュニティをまとめ、思い出に残るようなイベントを開催してきました。今回はゲートボールの楽しみを当地に広めたケイ・フジシマさんをご紹介します。 1990 年代後半から 2000 年代初期のまだ隣組がパウエル街にあったころ、近くのオッペンハイマー公園はケイ・フジシマさんの指導のもとゲートボールを楽しむ人でいっぱいでした。ゲートボールは日本発祥のハイペースで戦略を要するチームスポーツで、ゴルフよりおもしろいと参加し始めた人もいました。そしてハワイで開催されたトーナメントにチームで行くくらい、皆さんゲートボールにはまっていました。年に数回、ケイさんは隣組、バンクーバー仏教会、スティーブストン仏教会のチームを集めてトーナメントを主催、イベントは毎回とてもよく企画されていて、全員が公園に集った様子は圧巻でした。そこでは上下白色のユニフォームに身を包んだ百名ほどのメンバーが公園で試合に挑んでいました。両親やおじいちゃん・おばあちゃんの応援に来た家族はその熱気に圧倒されたかもしれません。偶然通りかかった地元紙バンクーバー・サンやプロビンス紙の記者がその様子を一面で取り上げてくれたのもいい思い出です。隣組がパウエル街から引っ越してからは、定期試合やトーナメントは新しくスティーブストン仏教会に場所を移し続けられています。長年ケイさんのおかげで当地のゲートボール愛好家たちが集まり、楽しい時間を過ごすことができました。ケイさん、ありがとうございました！

ッコさんおめでとうございます！

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皆さんにキッコさんとして親しまれているルレーナ・キクコ・タサカさんがこの度 BC Achievement Foundation よりコミュニティ・アワードを受賞されました。キッコさんは元隣組スタッフで、退職後もずっとボランティアとして活躍しています。様々なグループのリーダーを務めているだけでなく、隣組やその他の団体のためにコミュニティから寄付を募ったり、外出が困難になったり施設に入居したため地域や友達との繋がりがなくなりそうな方たちと連絡を取り続けています。実は以上のケイさんの記事やその他のボランティア・スポットライトはキッコさんが書いていて、愛情にあふれる人柄が文章から伝わってきます。キッコさん、コミュニティのためにありがとうございます！ BC Achievement Foundation ウェブサイトのキッコさんの紹介文 www.bcachievement.com/awardee/lurana-kikuko-kikko-tasaka/

隣組へのご寄付ありがとうございました。（2021 年 4 月 20 日〜 2021 年 5 月 18 日順不同、敬称略）お名前の誤り等があった場合は来月号の紙面にて訂正させて頂きますので、ご連絡ください。寄付金中堀待子、東喜美子、峯田正義寄付金 (The Benevity ー Employees matching fund) TELUS Communication Inc., Royal Bank of Canada 田坂きっこ氏 BC Achievement Community Award 受賞に敬意を表して田坂ブルース & ナン物品渡辺佳子、峯田正義、匿名希望 (2) 飛翔鶴募金キャンペーン - 金の鶴賞 The Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation、許澄子、篠崎敬二 (via Canada Helps) 飛翔鶴募金キャンペーン - 花模様鶴賞芝野智子、水口光子 (via Canada Helps, Monthly)

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将来これまでできていたことが難しくなったり、介護が必要になった時に、どこで住むか考えたことはありますか？自宅で暮らし続けたい場合に利用できる公的サービスや、介護施設に入居する場合に備えて BC 州のシステムについて理解していると安心です。シニアのための住まいに関する情報や支援プログラムについてご案内します。日時：6 月 25 日（金）午前 10:00 ∼ 11:30 アクセス：Zoom ズーム・電話（お申込み後に詳細をメールします）隣組会員無料・非会員＄８お申込み・お問い合わせ：604-687-2172 内線 102、メール services@tonarigumi.ca（正子）

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隣組とシニアへのご支援ありがとうございます！この度、篠崎敬三さん、許澄子さん、フランク・ H・ホリ慈善財団より多大なるご寄付を賜り厚く御礼申し上げます。そしてクイーンエリザベス・ライオンズクラブののジェシー・ジョールさんとメイ・ハマニシさん、そしてオーシャン・ブランズ社、いつも食材のご寄付をありがとうございます。隣組は地域の皆さんに支えられ、日系・日本人シニアのためのプログラムやサービスをコロナ禍で続けております。

《滄海一粟》航海日誌

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福島原発事故から10年：汚染水放出の危険性福島第一原発 1 ∼３号基の炉心溶解から 10 年。順調にいっても 30 年かかるといわれる廃炉だが、いまだその道筋さえ見えない。溶解した炉心部がどうなっているのか把握できないのだ。さらに、３号機が爆発した時の「爆轟」の原因は水素でないことが今年明らかになった。原因が不明である以上、再発の恐れもあり、廃炉まで「100 年かかる」という米国の専門家もいる。この 10 年、核を取り巻く社会の目は一変した。ドイツのメルケル首相は「福島事故は原発に対する私の姿勢を変えた」と議会で「敗北宣言」をした。物理学者の彼女は、かつては強硬な原発擁護派だった。来年 12 月、ドイツで最後の一基の稼働が止まる。本年１月、核兵器禁止条約が発効し、原料供給から製造、保有、威嚇まで違法となった。「核兵器と原発はシャム双生児のように一対でなければ存在し続けられない」と主張するのは、カナダの科学者・フェリス・クレイトンだ。日本政府は、プルトニウムを抽出し、それを従来の軽炉で再使用するために、青森県六ヶ所村での使用済み核燃料の再処理工場の建設を 1980 年代から進めてきた。だが、試行運転を繰り返すだけで、いまだに稼働の目処は立っていない。この間に、MOX （プルトニウム・ウラン混合酸化物）燃料を使用し、消費した量以上の燃料を作ることができるという夢のような高速増殖炉・もんじゅ建設計画が莫大な資金を費やして続いてきたが、技術的な完成もみないまま 2016 年に廃炉が決定された。そして残ったのは、猛毒を撒き散らす核廃棄物の最終的埋蔵の問題だ。これさえ、日本政府は明確な答えのないまま原発を稼働し続けてきた。そして、原発事故の原因が実は「想定外」ではなく、パイプ設計の危険性の指摘を無視して突き進んだ人為的な問題だったことも判明した。不遜と怠慢、経済優先主義が起こした明確な「業務上の過失」だった。だが、これは実は他人事ではなくカナダへの警告でもある。 1990 年代に、科学者ロザリー・バーテルが「トリチウムと健康への影響」という論文で、原発のあるオンタリオ州ピカリングの周辺住民の健康調査をした結果、ダウン症の発生率が異常に高い（1.8 倍）という報告をカナダ政府に提出していた。だが、これが住民運動に発展することはなく、科学者たちがモニタリングの強化を訴えるだけにとどまっているのが現状だ。 1970 年代に先代のピエール・トルードー首相が、核兵器廃止へのウラニウム調達から製造までの供給源を遮断して核兵器産業を「窒息」させるという政策を国連で提唱した。これはカナダの原発行政にも及んでいた。政府は、トルードー元首相（父）が決定した「使用済み核燃料の再処理はしない」という姿勢を貫いてきたが、今年、ニュー・ブランズウィック州に核再処理工場建設を認可する決定をした。これは、実質的に父親が決定したカナダ政府の反核兵器の姿勢を、息子のジャスティンが捨てた年として銘記すべきだろう。

●核とフェミニズム「核による抑止論」は、威嚇による人権の蹂躙だった。「核兵器は力の象徴であり、ショービニズムの産物だ」と、トロントの広島・長崎原爆投下記念日のイベントで語ったのは、フェミニストの視点から核兵器反対を唱えているカナダ人反核活動家レイ・アチェソンだ。フェミニストといえば、科学者としてノーベル賞を 2 回受賞した原子物理学の祖、マリ・キュリー（1867 ∼ 1934）を想起する。彼女はアカデミズムの世界での女性の地位向上に貢献したフェミニズムの母でもあった。マリ・キュリーは今日の「核の抑止論」を草葉の陰でどう感じているだろう。 1898 年、マリ・キュリーがラジウムの放射能を発見して以来、科学技術の発達は目覚しかった。これは人間の本能的な知的欲求に根ざすもので押し止めることはできないと主張する人たちがいる。確かに、

2022年12月に廃止されるドイツ南部で運転中のイザー原子炉2号機（撮影：熊谷徹・在独ジャーナリスト）

戦争の度に科学や医学は飛躍的に発達してきた。それは武器開発、危機管理の緊急性が要求したものである。だが今や、次から次と出現する伝染病や自然災害への危機管理を要求する案件が加わった。核兵器は禁止され、原発が技術的にもコスト的にも行き詰った今、これらに向けられてきた予算を、感染医学や CO ２対策、再生可能なエネルギー開発の分野に差し向けるべきだ。産業界の R ＆ D は、時局の変化に伴い絶えず必要に応じて意図的に操作されてきたのである。「このまま使い続けると、地球のウラニウム埋蔵量はあと 30 年から 40 年で枯渇します。化石燃料より少ないのですよ。こんなものにいつまでも頼っていてはいけません」と 40 年間言い続けてきたのは京都大学の小出裕章助教だ。福島原発の後始末にかかる莫大な費用が指し示しているのは、「結局、原発ほど高くつく電力はないという否定しようのない事実」である。それを証明するかのように、今年４月、管政権は 2 年後に福島原発汚染水の海洋放出を閣議決定した。

●トリチウムの危険性溶解した原子炉内で溶けて固まった「燃料デブリ」は絶えず水をかけて冷やし続けなければならない。毎日 140 トンの割合で放射能に汚染された水が増え続けている。これが「汚染水」として 1000 個のタンクに保管されている。政府は海洋放出を決定した理由として、１）タンク用の敷地が２年後には逼迫することを考慮して、２）保管中の汚染水を国内基準値の 40 分の１以下に浄化した上で 30 年かけて海洋放出する。３）その間に、線量の半減期 12 年のトリチウムは一定程度消滅するとしている。体内に入っても新陳代謝で体外に排出される。これに対して、メディアや地元民からトリチウムなどの放射能の健康と海洋生物に対する汚染の懸念が提出されている。１）の敷地に関しては、自民党内から「これは言い訳にすぎない、他にスペースを確保することは可能だ」と指摘されている。費用がかかるだけのことだ。２）毎日 140 トンの増加分を 30 年放出しても、タンクに保管中の汚染水は残ったままで減少することはない。３）これに対して、分子生物学者・内田晶東はカナダ人学者ロザリー・バーテルの調査を引用し、「トリチウムを含む汚染水をいくら希釈しても、一旦体内にトリチウムが入り込むと長くて 15 年間遺伝子を分解し続ける」と断言する。 2008 年、オンタリオ州飲料水諮問委員会（ODWAC）において、母体への影響を懸念する健康環境ネットワーク（WHENE）が、オンタリオ湖への汚染放出が始まった 1991 年の翌年には早くも健康への悪影響が出始めていたことを報告している。WHENE が憂慮するのは、妊娠中の母体内では極めて早い時期に胎児の卵巣が形成されるが、トリチウムはその細胞の DNA を切断してしまうという。報告書では、汚染水が含む 63 種類の放射線のうち、トリチウムは希釈して危険性が失せる物質ではないと断言している。（次号に続く）

*題字の「滄海一粟」（そうかいのいちぞく）とは大海原に浮かぶ一粒の粟のこと。

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Eastsideから見える日本と世界第34回入管法「改正案」への反対運動と若者たちの声 ■「改悪」入管法への反対運動前回、日本の入管法の問題点についてお伝えしました。本来は「改正案」と書くのが通常ですが、前回も記したように今回の法案の内容は明らかに現状よりも悪くなる、その意味で「改悪」だと私は考えています。外国人の支援、権利擁護などに従事してきた支援団体、市民団体、弁護士等からも同様の批判がなされています。 4 月半ばから衆議院法務委員会で入管法の法案審議が始まりました。衆議院法務委員会で法案審議開始と時期を同じくして、衆議院議員会館前で市民団体等による抗議の座り込み（sit-in）運動が始まりました。私も何度も参加しました。当初は市民団体の関係者が目立つ座り込みでしたが、徐々に参加者が増え、毎日参加する人も大勢いました。退職者などシニア世代も多いのですが、一方で目立ったのが若者たちの積極的な参加です。

そこにその男性から脅迫状が届いたことなどもあり、心身の状態が悪化してしまいます。しかし、入管職員は詐病であると決めつけて適切な医療対応をせず、結果的に彼女は体調を悪化させて亡くなってしまったのです。彼女が入管施設でどのような処遇を受けていたのか、入管施設内に設置されている防犯カメラの映像を見れば具体的にわかります。しかし、法務省、入国管理庁は頑なにビデオの開示を拒んでいます。5 月初旬にはスリランカから遺族が来日し、ビデオ開示をはじめ、どのような状態で、なぜ女性が亡くなったのか、説明と謝罪を法務省に求めていますが、法務省側はそれらに応じていません。現在、twitter 上ではビデオの開示を求める呼びかけが多数行われています（# ウィシュマさんのビデオを開示してください）。

■若者たちの参加と切実な声

■与党が入管法の法案取り下げを決定

これまで入管法に関する問題は「外国人の問題で、日本人には関係ない」と言われてきました。しかし、以前から外国人の人権、入管法の問題に関わってきた支援者や市民団体に加えて、Z 世代（Generation Z）と呼ばれる若者たちがこの問題に関心を持ち、積極的に参加したことは座り込み運動、抗議運動が広く世間に知られていくことに大きく影響しました。高校生、大学生、大学を卒業したばかりの若者たちは「外国人の人権問題は他人事とは思えない」「外国人が酷い扱いを受ける社会では、日本人である自分も将来酷い目に遭うのではないか」という思いや恐れを抱いています。「外国人のことだから関係ない」と切り捨てるのではなく、普遍的な人権の問題として、また自分ごととして外国人に関わる問題をごく自然に捉えている姿は、これまでの反対運動、抗議運動にはあまり見られないものでした。こうした若者たちは twitter、Instagram などの SNS をとても効果的に使用します。インターネット上での伝え方に長けています。こうした若者たちの参加によって、特に twitter を通じてこの問題を知り、抗議運動に参加する人たちが増えていきました。

5 月 18 日、与党（自民党、公明党）は、衆議院で審議していた入管法の法案を取り下げることを決定しました。抗議運動が予想外に盛り上がり、7 月の都議会選挙や年内に行われる衆議院選挙に影響することを懸念したためと言われています。入管法は、この後、参議院で審議されます。参議院では、支援団体等も協力して練った対案を野党が提出しており、より内容に踏み込んだ審議がされることでしょう。

■入管施設内での死亡事件をめぐる抗議と批判法案審議と同時に注目されているのが、2021 年 3 月にスリランカ人女性が名古屋入管の施設で亡くなった事件です。この女性は留学生として日本に来日しましたが、学費が払えずに学校を退学となったことで在留資格を失いました。また、日本で同居していた男性から暴力を受けてもいました。男性の暴力から逃れるために、交番に駆け込んだところ、在留資格がないとして逮捕され、入管施設に収容されましたが、

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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。衆議院議員会館前で座り込みの抗議を行う人々（2021 年 5 月撮影）

記憶のための未来東日本大震災後のアートと暮らし日時：２月 11 日∼９月５日会場：Museum of Anthropology (UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC）チケット購入・詳細：moa.ubc.ca 東北大震災から 10 年。自然災害が人間に及ぼす影響、その再生の可能性、自然との共生についての探究、災害後に誕生した繋がりなどをテーマにし、日本のアーティスト、グループや団体の作品を複数展示。キュレーター中村冬日。入場には事前予約が必要です。ウェブサイトで詳細をご確認ください。写真：Flower: Southern magnolia/Location: Ukedo, Namine town, from Atsunobu Katagiri s Sacriﬁce series, 2013 ‒2014.

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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。

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ポイントしっかり踏むことで、麺にコシをあたえます。私の祖母から学んだ、山梨県富士吉田市の吉田うどんをベースにつくられているレシピです。好みの太さ、つゆ、つけ合せで召し上がってください！

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GVJCCA 会員の皆さん、こんにちは。皆さんには幸いにも、私のコロナウイルス感染が完治した事をご報告できます。振返ってみると、回復できた事を感謝する同時に、正常に活動できり様になるまで１ケ月間かかってしまいました。自身が回復できた事を感謝すると同時に、まだ尾をひく症状と闘っているウイルス生存者の方々をポートいたします。これは予断し難いウイルスです。くれぐれも安全を期してください。ワクチン接種を済ませた者の数がどんどん増えて以前より自由に感じられる今もにも関わらず、変種は感染率が高いとの事です。今後数週間のうちに 2 度目の接種は受けられるそうですから 7 月と８月を楽しめる様になるのを願うばかりです。

ディ・マスブチ、ニッキー・アサノ、キャシー・シミズ及びイーライ・シャイナー諸氏の援助もいただきました。更にイーライさんは最後のワークショップで勇気を鼓舞する講演をして下さいました。作業、フィードバック、アイデイアと時間を寄付して下さった皆さん、ありがとうございました、貴方方なくして今回の ZOOM は実現しなかった事でしょう。

ハイダ族の長老で彫刻の師匠スクンダール・バーニー・ウイリアム氏（Skundaal Bernie Williams）はワークショップでこう語りました。「私たは団結してお互いをサポートしなければならない。個々では誰も何もできない。」今度のワークショップはスクンダールの言葉を立証しま Asian Heritage Month （アジア系文化遺産の月）に指定された 5 月中の去る 5 月 15 日、GVJCCA では ZOOM による反人種差別主義した。その収穫は、全ての形の憎しみと人種差別主義に打ち勝つにはワークショップ・シリーズに最終回を主催しました。今年注目したのは、私たちは団結しお互いをサポートしなければなりません。参加者の方々アジア系市民に対する危険かつ増加しつつある人種差別事件です。更全員に感謝します。

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に、この注目点に沿って「模範的少数市民なる神話の解体」のタイトルのもとに、他人を固有の型にはめてしまう現象を検討しました。この神話については参加者達から沢山の意見が出ました。彼らの話を分ちあい、聞けたのは良かったです。

生存者高齢者向け２百万ドルの是正、回復と福祉基金

去る 5 月 5 日発表された BC 州強制収容生存者高齢者向け２百万ド 4 回に渡るワークショップ・シリーズには参加者の方々より概ね肯定ルの是正。回復と福祉基金は GVJCCA にとり吉報でした。この基金は的なコメントを頂きました。4 回のワークショップの準備、とり纏め及 1945 年以降家族が BC 州より追放され東部各地に住み着いた BC 州び主催と大活躍なさった ZOOM の纏め役エミコ・ニューマン氏に感謝及びカナダ全国在住の生存者に配布されます。高齢の回復と福祉をサと共におめでとうと申し上げます。また、技術者、ワークショップ・グルーポートするこのプログラムを GVJCCA では歓迎します。もしこの先 1 年プ促進係および総合的支持者となって下さったと実な委員会会員ウェンのうちにコロナウイルス関係の制限が解除され、生存者達が集まり旧交を温める事ができれば素晴しいのですが。回復の為に友人関係は貴重です。このプログラムをサポートする為 GVJCCA ではできる限りの尽力いたします、

８月 14 日の年次総会８月 14 日（土曜日）の午後 1 時から 3 時まで ZOOM で開催される年次総会をお忘れなく。会合に先立って Bulletin 誌各号にお知らせが掲載されます。GVJCCA 理事会はまた新規の理事を募集しています。現在のところはここまで。6 月の残る日々を皆様がリラックスして楽しめる様に願っています。

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Kazuho Yamamoto

先日職場のミーティングの最後に「在宅ワーク版スカベンジャーハント」をしました。ホストの同僚がリストを提示し、そのリストにあるもの全てを一番最初に集めた人が勝利で、ちょっとした景品もありました。全てを覚えてはいないのですが、白い靴下、果物、赤いペン、オレンジ色のもの等がリストにありました。頑張って探し集めたのですが、同僚が素早く全てを集めて優勝しました。 Kazuho Yamamoto

新型コロナウイルスの影響で在宅ワークが求められ、Zoom やその他のオンラインミーティングツールが頻繁に利用されるようになりました。私が職場で体験したスカベンジャーハントもスクリーンシェアでリストが表示できる機能を利用した面白いアイデアだと思いました。在宅ワークが始まってから1 年が経ちましたが、マイクをオンにし忘れて話続けてしまったり、その逆でオフにし忘れてミーティングのノイズになってしまったりと、こうしたミスは今でも時々やってしまいます。私が職場で使っているミーティングツールでは、ミュートで話し続けると「ミュートですよ」というお知らせが最近出てきてくれるので助かっています。今月は B C 州が再開計画の発表を行い、秋までにはこうした在宅、バーチャルミーティング中心の生活から職場で仕事への移行が始まりそうです。安心、安全な環境で同僚と対面でミーティングできる日を楽しみにして、残り少ない在宅・バーチャルミーティングの日々も楽しもうと思います。

BC州の再開計画（詳細はhttps://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/info/restart#planからご覧ください）

「ハチドリ」

KAO (a.k.a. SleeplessKao)

KAO コロナ禍でペットを飼う人が増えた中、窓辺にバードフィーダーを吊るし、鳥が訪れるのを楽しんでいる人が目につくようになりました。自身も猫シッターをした家で「ハチドリのフィーダーの甘水を小まめに管理してね」とお願いされたこともあって、カナダではハチドリを気にしている人が多くいるなと気づき始めました。「羽ばたく宝石」とも形容されるハチドリは美しいとは思うけれど、それほど興味がなかったというのが本音です。蜂のように高速で羽根を羽ばたかせ、喧嘩っ早く神経質なイメージだったのですが、友人の家でもハチドリフィーダーがあちこちに吊るされているので、なぜそんなにハチドリが好きなのかを尋ねると、面白い話を聞くことができました。

「僕のいとこは研究のためにハチドリの糞を集めて研究所に送ったことがあるよ」ハチドリは地球にとても重要で、非常に優れた花粉媒介者なのだそうです。ハチドリを保護することが BC 州の他の種を保護するのに役立つため、研究者たちは健康な地球の指標を測定するのに役立つ可能性があるとして、ハチドリの糞を送るよう一般に求めているのだそうです。ここからはネットで調べたので書き記します。森林ではグリホサート系除草剤が世界で最も広く使用されていて、BC 州では針葉樹の成長を促進するために使用されますが、他の植物を犠牲することがよくあります。ノーザン・ブリティッシュ・コロンビア大学の准教授で研究者のリサ・ウッドさんによると、除草剤が使用されてから数年後に、花の色や花粉の入手困難性など植物の変化に気付いているそうです。天文台のボランティアであるヴァレリー・クロウリーさんは、人々がハチドリの糞を送ってくれることを望んでいます。サンプルを収集する最良の方法はサランラップを鳥の餌箱の下に置いて、糞をキャッチすることだと言います。「サランラップを折りたたんでジップロックの袋に入れ日付を記入してください、冷凍庫で保管できます」

ウッドさんによると、サンプルは化学分析のためにゲルフ大学に送られるといいます。研究に役立てるためにサンプルを送る場合は、Rocky Point Bird Observatory に連絡してください。http://rpbo.org/

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Articles inside

Community Kitchen 30 NAJC President’s Message

JCCA Donations / Editorial 24 JCCA President’s Message

VJLS&JH Community Update 27 Landscapes of Injustice

Steveston Japanese Language School

NAJC and GVJCCA Statements on Kamloops Indian Residential School

BC Redress: Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness Fund

Bulletin Interview: Sharon Minemoto

A Mother & Daughter’s Journey by Grace Eiko Thomson, Part III

NAJC Anglican Healing Fund