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A Journal of Japanese Canadian Community, History & Culture www.jccabulletin-geppo.ca SSN 1182-0225 v.63 No.05 May 2021 Circulation: 4,100 Canada Post Agreement Number 400-50782 G V J C CA

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

Managing Editor John Endo Greenaway john@bigwavedesign.net

A Mother & Daughter’s Journey by Grace Eiko Thomson, Part II 2 Poetry Corner: Portrait of the Artist as a Donkey by Joy Kogawa 6 CrossCurrents 7 BC Redress Announcement 8 NAJC Human Rights Committee 10 NAJC Anglican Healing Fund 12

Japanese Editors Kazuho Yamamoto Kaori Kasai editor.geppo@gmail.com Advertising Manager Anne Jew annejew@telus.net

Katie Cassady, TWObigsteps Collective. Photo Susanna Barlow. See page 34.

Online Session: Deconstructing the Model Minority Myth 13 The Paueru Gai Dialogues #5 14 The Paueru Gai Dialogues – Reflections 15 Powell Street Festival Update 21 Toronto NAJC Update 22 ©

Watada: What’s in a Name Part II 24 JCCA Donations / Editorial 20

Distribution Manager Michael Tora Speier

JCCA President’s Message 25 Landscapes of Injustice 26

Administrative Assistant Mitsuyo Okamoto

Landscapes of Injustice Digital Database 29 Milestones 29

JCCA Board Of Directors President: Judy Hanazawa Treasurer: Cary Sakiyama Vice President: April Shimizu Recording Secretary: Wendy Matsubuchi Directors: May Hamanishi, Emiko Lashin, Liz Nunoda, Nikki Asano, Ron Nishimura Human Rights Committee Tatsuo Kage, Judy Hanazawa, Ron Nishimura, Kathy Shimizu

Community Kitchen 30 NAJC President’s Message 32 Community Calendar 34 Tonari Gumi Corner 36 Our Edible Roots 37 VJLS&JH Community Update 39 Nikkei Place Update 42 Geppo 45

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CHIRU SAKURA

A MOTHER & DAUGHTER’S JOURNEY BY

GRACE EIKO

THOMSON PART TWO

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 2021 issue of The Bulletin I talked with Grace about her life up until her marriage in 1959. In Part Two of our discussion we carry on from where we left off.

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GRACE EIKO THOMSON PART TWO

We left off part one of our conversation talking about your marriage in 1959 to Alistair MacDonald Thomson. I wanted to circle back to the immediate postwar years, when restrictions were finally lifted and Japanese Canadians were given the right to vote and to live and work anywhere in the country.

Your parents chose not to return to the coast, but to settle in Winnipeg.

My father returned to Japan to marry in 1929, as arranged by his parents, and the two of them settled in the city of Vancouver in the early ‘30s when Father was hired as the Buyer for Codfish Sales Cooperative Society (a collaboration between Indigenous, Japanese, and White fishers, believed to be one of the first if not the first of its kind). He and Mother were very happy believing this was the beginning leading up to fulfillment of their dreams in this new world.

However, within less than a dozen years (1942), they were uprooted from their home in Vancouver,

to be interned, and for the next eight years lived under government restrictions, moving from one place to another, until finally in 1949 when Japanese Canadians were given the right to vote, and restrictions were lifted, they made the choice of settling in the City of Winnipeg, instead of moving back to the West Coast, where there was no home for the family to return to, and no job for my father to return to.

I believe for each family the choice they made as to where to resettle had everything to do with their economic condition. If a family had already been established in the West Coast for more than one generation before 1942, even though their properties were confiscated, they may have had the financial ability to return to begin again. Most of the families that chose self-supporting sites (i.e., Minto, Lillooet) took with them all of their belongings, expecting to return one day to the homes they left. For people like my parents, young immigrants, their married life begun only a dozen years before in Canada, going to Minto (following Father’s older brother, an established fisherman living in Steveston) was a big mistake. From 1942 to 1950, fathers like mine, in order to raise their family, moved from one available job (usually sawmills) to another, often living apart from their family members.

When finally all restrictions were lifted and internees had freedom to return to the West Coast in 1950, some fishermen and farmer families returned to begin again, but for my parents, their decision to stay in Manitoba, and to move into the City of Winnipeg, was dictated I believe by their depleted financial condition – there was not much choice with five children yet to raise. As well, Father had once lived in Winnipeg in his bachelor days, working for a CPR hotel.

You talk about Winnipeg in your book as a pivotal time for you, of attending a large high school with students of Jewish, Scandinavian, Ukrainian and Polish descent, and having to navigate what felt like a new country. I know you can’t speak for your entire generation, but I wonder what those years were like for you and your peers, released into the world and able to engage for the first time on your own terms.

Moving into a city, after living in an internment camp site – where as children we knew little about the larger society, everyday conversing with largely Issei parents in Japanese, and playing with children who looked like us – was a big shock. We had to learn to adjust, especially for myself as the oldest of siblings, ensuring their everyday safety, while parents were also adjusting to the new situation. For us, beginning in rural Manitoba (during the dispersal period) was perhaps a good introduction. It was not an easy adjustment to finally move into a city (something I had not known since leaving Vancouver in 1942 as a child) and into a large city school, among young people who were of various ethnicities, confidently living their everyday lives.

In time, of course, we made new friends. But the circumstances in which I was living, with both parents working and relying on me to take care of my younger siblings’ everyday lives, I can’t say I was living my life on my own terms. It was when I was introduced to the Japanese Canadian community that I began engaging in some social life. I was only sixteen when we moved to the city, and by the age of eighteen, after high school, I had begun to work in the larger society, as a stenographer to assist in my parents’ new goal of buying a home.

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You talk in the book about community leaders urging Japanese Canadians not to congregate in neighbourhoods, but instead to disperse across cities and provinces. What affect did this edict have, do you think, on the postwar community, and how it reformed itself after the war?

Yes, I learned that as we were making plans to move into a city, of the government’s order that we live dispersed, to not form clusters of community (i.e., Paueru Gai). In moving to Winnipeg, beginning a new life, helped by those already settled, there was in fact no chance of being able to live near each other. About 300 families moved into Winnipeg, each looking for a place of residence in the city, and it was not easy to find rental space as there was discrimination at first. It was, at first, difficult for many to find jobs, not only housing. Though jobs were advertised, when responding to such ads, they were told such positions were already filled. This situation did not last long as in this city, filled with immigrant families from all over the world, especially Eastern Europe (unlike Vancouver, where the majority was British) there was much more acceptance. I was, as one of the younger generation, asked often to pose in a kimono, treated as exotic, rather than treated with racism.

You talk about engaging with the Jewish community in Winnipeg and coming to see that they also faced discrimination, like not being able to join certain clubs or to buy houses in certain neighbourhoods. At the same time, you watched as men like Harold Hirose enlisted to fight for Canada, a country that had stripped his family of everything.

How did this shape your view of Canada and the fragility of the rights we claim to enjoy?

During the war period I was too young to analyse or to take positions regarding how each generation of JCs responded to the events. There were many enlistments, and I heard nothing negative from my parents or friends but it was natural that those of us born in Canada wanted to become part of Canada, not Japan, of which we knew nothing. So how members of the Jewish community (who we saw as ‘white’) were treated was surprising, especially given what we knew about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The war with Japan offered an excuse and opportunity to the Canadian politicians and their governments to remove us from the west coast. The fact that we could not return (all properties confiscated and sold without owners’ consent), forbidden from returning to the west coast, even as the war had ended, was due to racism, not security.

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You end this section of the book with this observation: This new way (for me) of viewing society as consisting of human beings, rather than just whites and Asians living in opposition, would become my focus and understanding my own position as I began working in the larger world alongside various others.

Yes. The fact is, “the various others” I was learning, through my research process, were also treated unequally and with discrimination, not only “Orientals.” I had a lot of “growing up” to do. I had been focusing self-centredly on the treatment of JCs, from my own experience…and had looked at racism through this narrow lens…but when I began to take positions in the larger world (here in Canada), i.e., Inuit artists in Baker Lake, Eastern European immigrant history (i.e., Ukrainians), Indigenous artists (in Saskatchewan), I realized that Canada’s society was essentially built on white supremacy through its governments. I also knew from personal experiences of meeting many considerate people that there was need for ‘us’ to speak out, rather than accept things as they are.

In 1955 you were elected the first female President of the Manitoba Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association – you don’t dwell on it on the book, and maybe it wasn’t such a big deal in those days, but it seems like a pretty significant step. Was there any pushback against your election as President?

Manitoba (Winnipeg) was not a centre with a large JC population.

In those days, there was a lot of international connection with the Consulate of Japan, which was established in Winnipeg early…and perhaps my ability to speak Japanese offered some advantage. I recall as president I attended many gatherings and events related to this connection, also that our community leaders were largely of the older generation at this time, before younger people started to take interest in this history. Though resettling post internment (before Redress), we were listening more to the older generation’s community interests of producing events, such as shibai (Japanese performances), with little interest yet about redressing the past.

You say in the book that arranged marriages were still fairly common in the postwar years and that your mother in fact fended off a number of marriage offers for you. Yet neither your parents or your husband-to-be’s parents objected to your wedding. I thought this was a really significant statement in the book: It was not until I was married to an educated person with educated friends all from middle-to-upper-class families living in and around Winnipeg’s River Heights, that my need to understand who I was began to resurface.

The life I had chosen as my own, and soon with two sons, was the kind of privileged life I had watched from the outside and desired without cultural understanding. I found myself living a role I had created for myself, that of a white woman in a white household, doing all those things I had heretofore seen only in white magazines and movies. Except that I was not white and never could be.

Not all of us living at the margins of Canadian society are unhappy to be there, although we may not be comfortable. We are, in fact, occupying diverse and often interesting spaces, accepted or not.

I believe now that is only through recognizing the existence of such margins that the authority of the centre can be maintained.

In intermarrying, I was occupying the margins and the centre simultaneously, but I had not yet realized this.

I was very naïve. In fact, when I remember back, most of my friends and those people a little older than me seemed to know who they were, and moved on. Perhaps because I was raised by a Japanese mother, and had only recently, moved to Winnipeg from rural Manitoba where my friends did not include one JC, for the first time became aware of Japanese Canadian young people, how they were living, not so attached to their Japanese family as I was. It was not an easy thing for me to become part of the JC young people’s community of social activities, even as I wanted to belong. I recall obtaining a job as a stenographer at an insurance company where I made friends. It was not until I was into my twenties that I made friends in our own community. So I was more comfortable in the larger society.

concerned, I was always living in the margins, and in intermarrying I think I thought that is where I fitted, both the centre and the margin.

Does that make sense?

You were accepted to the University of Manitoba School of Art in 1973. I get the sense that you turned to art as a way of making sense of the world. In fact, one of the chapters in the book is titled “Art as a Way of Life.” You say: It took time for me to realize that art is not just about creating but also about finding one’s place; The journey is not limited to one’s own history but it’s about expanding one’s thoughts through sharing with others. Art is solely about living – living and doing without necessarily having to interpret, define or choose. How did the world of art open up the broader world to you do you think?

My mother, though we did not speak about her as an artist (in fact, the word ‘artist’ was not in our vocabulary in those days as we were living dictated by needs), was in retrospect, truly an artist. While she did not have the luxury of making art, or consciously becoming an artist per se, she was, within the needs of our everyday life, finding ways to create in special ways, i.e., drying sheets of bark skins to write poetry on during the internment period, practicing calligraphy, designing and sewing gowns for me to wear whenever I was asked out on a prom or a JCCA annual ball date. Art is what she was focused on, without naming. So it was not surprising that when I was invited to take part in an art class in a church basement that I found art was within me also, was a part of me, to make or to curate…and thus my life changed to naturally focus on developing that aspect of me, which remains with me to this day.

However, interestingly, whenever the JC community held a shibai (performance) in the Ukrainian Labour Temple, I participated, usually with my older sister (who as raised in Japan), wearing kimono, having learned odori (dance). Or I sang a Japanese song (which since childhood I had done with my mother in the kitchen daily while washing dishes, etc.).

Singing was part of my life, and soon after moving to Winnipeg, I was also part of the choir at Knox United Church. So insofar as my personal life was Next month: Part III

Sunday, September 24, 2017, Reconciliation Walk. From left: Jamil Kenji Thomson, Judge Maryka Omatsu, Carolyn Nakagawa, Grace Eiko Thomson, Judy Hanazawa, Professor Setsuko Sonoda.

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POETRY CORNER

Portrait of the Artist as Donkey

CrossCurrents

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SUSHI IN JAPAN VS SUSHI IN NORTH AMERICA’S “SUSHI CAPITAL”VANCOUVER

Slice a piece of fresh salmon or tuna with a sashimi bouchou, that razor sharp chopper designed especially for sashimi. Check the surface of the cut carefully. Is it welling up or is it smooth.

Herein lies the critical difference between sashimi prepared in Vancouver and the rest of North America, and that in Japan, the original home of sashimi, either by itself or used in nigiri sushi.

B o r n a n d r a i s d e d i n To k y o , I remember the words “I am Edokko” (a son of Edo, the old name for Tokyo) from way back in my childhood. When I was about ten, a well-to-do uncle took me to a real sushi shop where for the first time in my life, I got to sit at the counter and order whatever I wanted. I remember sitting there

with my cousin, thinking “This tastes so good it’s out of this world.”

Over 60 years hence, I still like sushi best even though I eat pork, beef or chicken from time to time.

Being able to eat tasty sushi at my senior age in the “North American sushi capital” remains one of the small pleasures of my life.

I learned this from my friend Mr O, a seasoned itamae, the man working behinf a sushi counter. As a Japanese who has lived for the past 24 years in Vancouver, rated as North America’s “sushi capital” by experts familiar with the sushi situation in cities across North America and Western Europe, how can I not be interested?

It’s understandable that sushi in Japan is generally better, but how? This is where the above-mentioned difference comes in. The crux is what’s called okori, a slight bulge in the texture of the cut in sliced sashimi.

A true conoisseur can apparently feel whether a slice of sasimi has okori.

Apart from preparation methods, one sushi itamae told me that with salmon and tuna, the fish most in demand, the former is always supplied fresh while the latter is always supplied refrigerated. Is this because we are close to salmon fishing grounds?

As sushi shops also have to considered cost, refrigerated fish is cheaper than fresh. So if you want good sushi, you have to go to the more expensive sushi restaurants.

Living alone not far from the UBC campus, I often go to ordinary neighborhood sushi shops when I can afford it, like many Japanese folks. Though I am interested in what conoissuers have to say, I am not fussy as long as the sushi suits my taste.

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Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Receive BC Government Grant On March 31, 2021, the Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society (NSHCHS) signed a $2million contract with the BC Ministry of Health which sees the BC based organization receiving end of year funds to develop and implement a program to benefit Japanese Canadian survivors who were directly impacted by the actions of BC Governments 1942-1949.

Background to the Grant The National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) is currently in discussions with the BC Government to decide legacy initiatives for the community. In November 2019, the NAJC put forward “Redressing Historical Wrongs Against Japanese Canadians in BC,” a recommendations report to the Government of British Columbia. Following notes from the BC Government, and stakeholder validations, in January – March 2020, the NAJC researched & developed a set of ‘asks’ in the areas of: seniors health and wellness; anti-racism & acknowledgement; education; heritage; community and culture.

Premier’s Office, buttressed by further analysis from the Institute of Fiscal Studies in Democracy (IFSD) November 2020.

With the BC Government’s support, the NSHCHS and the NAJC worked in solidarity to achieve this goal. For this grant, the NSHCHS is represented by Ruth Coles and Cathy Makihara. The NAJC is represented

by BC Redress Project Director Susanne Tabata.

Access for Survivors In the lead up to defining the ‘asks’ for BC Redress, survivors, their families, volunteers, and caregivers, spoke out for the need for more services, citing the community has relied on volunteers to provide a lot of seniors supports, and many have become seniors in need of support, or have burnt-out. BC Government has committed funds to NSHCHS to help the organization to be able to upscale, develop, and implement a program which can benefit our survivors, many who reside outside of BC. The NSHCHS will ensure there is always compliance, and for that reason, there will be strict governance over the fund.

Next Steps Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society is currently setting up The NAJC was able to draw from its research on a project office with plans to develop a nationwide community based Seniors Health and Wellness, which is a clearly posi- participatory grant for survivors based on area needs. A national worktioned priority ‘ask’ in the July 2020 “NAJC Japanese ing committee will be established consisting of representatives from Canadian Legacy Initiatives” submission to the BC all areas in Canada to inform and activate this fund. All NAJC chapters will be asked to participate in this process, in addition to other organi-

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to find out what that was. Professor Greg Robinson provided some scholarly insight into the impact of GH's activism prior to Matt Miwa's performance. We were amazed by Matt Miwa's passionate reading DR. GORDON HIRABAYASHI from the play about Hirabayashi, Hold These Truths, written by Jeanne HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD Sakata. Matt captured the urgency and intensity of the context and Nomination Deadline: June 30, 2021 decisions he faced. We were then totally charmed by the exchange This award will be presented at the NAJC AGM, to between actor and playwright. We could have listened all night. EJCA recognize an individual or organization in Canada President, Paul Fujishige helped close the evening with an overview contributing to the development or promotion of of EJCA initiatives. human rights and equality. For full details visit www. A video of the evening is available on the NAJC website. najc.ca/funds-and-awards/dr-gordon-hirabayashi-human-rights-award or email humanrights@najc.ca Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi, VP & Chair, Human Rights Committee

IJUSHA OUTREACH & HUMAN RIGHTS

REMEMBERING GORDON HIRABAYASHI A Gathering of Friends On March 23, the NAJC Human Rights Committee partnered with the EJCA for a memorable evening.

NAJC VP and Human Rights Committee Chair, Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi conveyed thoughts from Mike Murakami, who founded the NAJC Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights award in 2012 shortly after the death of Gordon Hirabayashi on January 2, 2012. Hirabayashi was a posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom granted by President Barack Obama.

Last summer the Human Rights Committee, then Chaired by Keiko Miki reflected on differences between the Human Rights landscape in Canada and Japan. Out of that discussion came the idea of engaging Ijusha and post-war immigrants in a Japanese language session to begin conversations about Canadian human rights issues, Japanese Canadian history and the challenges of being a new immigrant.

The first Ijusha Outreach event held on Saturday, April 17 was a resounding success. Fumi Torigai, President of JCAY and Human Rights Committee member was the project coordinator. Mariko Kage was the main presenter and played a major role in assisting Fumi with outreach and organizing. After opening remarks by Fumi Torigai, four speakers told their stories, each one unique and varied.

Mariko Kage spoke of her grandmother's influence when growing up in Japan, her culture shock when she immigrated to Canada in her teens, and her spiritual growth living in Indigenous culture. She closed her story by emphasizing the importance of love and acceptance in our human relationships. The second speaker Keiko Funahashi, the Former EJCA President, Takashi Ohki, shared some Executive Director of Tonari Gumi of Vancouver, gave many practical memories of Hirabayashi which included his lengthy suggestions on how to access government services for seniors while reports at EJCA meetings and a secret recipe for struggling with insufficient language skills, and other related cases. delicious rice. You will have to watch the event video

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doing street outreach himself. Cole identifies as mixed race; light skin privilege; transmasculine; advocate; facilitator of education: especially anti-racism, 2SLGBTQ+ positive space, trans-inclusion and extrovert.

His MA thesis, “Solidarity in the Borderlands of Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality: Racialized Transgender Men” can be found online.

We examined our social location, areas of privilege and oppression and how they intersect to make us unique human beings. Topics covered included "Is not being racist good enough?", knowing the difference The 52 attendees then broke up into groups of six between intention and impact, microaggressions, excellent tips on or seven. In each group, participants enjoyed shar- becoming an ally and how to apologize when getting called out. Plans ing their own stories and had lively discussions on are underway to translate our experience into similar workshops for a variety of topics of their own choosing. When a our members over the next year. group of Ijusha from BC to Toronto (even one from Illinois, USA) with the great diversity of background met for the first time (in most cases), there were so HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE From East to West to North many issues and concerns to talk about, and we all Montreal Connor Hasegawa | Ottawa Jennifer Matsunaga | Toronto felt that we never had enough time. The majority Kim Uyede Kai | Hamilton Pauline Kajiura | Winnipeg Kei Ebata | of attendees expressed their desire to have more Saskatoon April Sora | Edmonton Kevin Higa | Vancouver Judy opportunities of this kind to meet with other Ijusha Hanazawa, Maryka Omatsu | Lillooet Mariko Kage | Yukon Fumi Torigai to have more conversations. It was obvious that | Past Chair Keiko Miki all the participants enjoyed the session and were asking for more.

This Zoom session clearly demonstrated the need for the NAJC to develop this initiative to further to conversation. As the number of Ijusha from Japan continues to increase, devoting more attention to involving the Ijusha community in a more meaningful way in the NAJC's future is a necessity. Many thanks to Fumi and Mariko as well as our ED Kevin Okabe, who in addition to assisting with operations, had a chance to practise his Japanese. The most popular question to emerge from the event was: "When will the next session take place?"

Temporary NAJC Office Administrator Position Available!

10 week, full time contract position beginning May or June 2021 paying $17 per hour Responsibilities include: • Communications and Social Media administration • Compile web-based information repository • Develop and track operational metrics and benchmarks • Assist in the development of the organization's strategic plan and monitoring mechanisms

PRIVILEGE, ANTI-OPPRESSION & RACISM Our committee and volunteers took part in an exceptional session led by Cole Gately of intersecting.ca Cole is an adult educator with extensive experience in facilitation with individuals from diverse backgrounds. The scope of his experience includes trans inclusion training, education to frontline workers serving the homeless and as a frontline worker

• 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 be a Canadian Citizen or a Permanent Resident of Canada.

Apply online at https://forms.gle/sMo9BNypV6Usg3Za8 or by email to ed@najc.ca.

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPANESE CANADIANS

NAJC.CA

ANGLICAN HEALING FUND

In response to our community consultations held in Vancouver, Lethbridge, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa & Montréal, the Japanese Canadian Working Group will introduce the

Anglican Healing Fund supporting survivors and families affected by GG Nakayama’s Clergy Sexual Abuse Come learn about Counselling and Education Grants.

Survivors, their families and supporters, and members of the public all welcome.

Saturday, June 26, 2021, 1:00 – 2:30pm Pacific time For more info, or to pre-register for our Zoom meeting, our confidential email is 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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ANTIRACISM SERIES MAY 15, 1-3PM (PST) DECONSTRUCTING THE MODEL MINORITY MYTH The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA) is pleased to introduce the final session in a series of monthly Zoom workshops to support racialized communities, address racism, and build community networks, with the aim to empower, educate, and build allyship.

In this session we will be focusing on the model minority myth. Which communities are most affected?

How is this myth perpetuated? In what ways is it harmful? How can we begin to deconstruct it? Guest speakers will provide their perspectives, followed

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by participant discussion in breakout rooms. All are welcome to join us in this conversation.

GUEST SPEAKERS Eli Sheiner is a 4.5 generation “Japanese Canadian”

Free Registration: bit.ly/GVJCCA4

who recently moved from Montreal to so-called Vancouver. Eli is active in the struggles against racism and the drug war, and is also a doctoral

Donna Yuko Yamazaki

candidate in medical anthropology.

Family Lawyer

She has worked in the Downtown Eastside, especially

An experienced member of the Hamilton Fabbro Lawyers team, Donna provides legal guidance in all areas of family law including separation, divorce, property division, and parenting issues.

the Powell Street district, since the 1970s, and has

Contact Donna for a consultation today.

written extensively on the historical geography of

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Audrey Kobayashi is a Patricia Monture Distinguished Scholar at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario.

the Japanese-Canadian community, as well as on a range of issues of social justice and human rights.

Linda George is a Squamish Nation elder. She will

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provide the land acknowledgment for this session.

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The Paueru Gai Dialogues #5 The Changing Environment and Humanity Saturday, May 22, 2021 1PM PST / 4PM EST

Free online Zoom event Registration Required http://bit.ly/PGD-5

Global warming and environmental protection are big inaccessible topics that point to news headlines, oil companies, pipelines and government policy.

Haruko Okano

Guest host Haruko Okano will facilitate a discussion with panelists Jen Sungshine, Rita Wong, and T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss, who will provide insight into their daily lives, art practices and activism. Through houseplants, the food we eat, words we use, and lessons from Indigenous knowledge keepers, we can deepen our understanding of how we live in the world today, and how that contributes to the future of all beings.

Participants will be invited into breakout groups to share their experiences and thoughts about how we can work together across communities to fight for justice and social change.

To wrap up the event, everyone will reconvene to offer generative questions as catalysts for actions in solidarity.

Haruko Okano, a Sansei generation Japanese Canadian, was born in Toronto but now lives in Vancouver, BC. She was raised by Caucasian foster parents in several different locations, through the Ontario Children’s Aid Society.

Jen Sungshine is a queer Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary & multi-hyphenate artist/ activist, community facilitator, and cultural producer based in Vancouver, BC. She is the Co-Artistic Director and Co-founder of Love Intersections, a media arts collective producing intergenerational + intersectional QTBIPOC stories through documentary film. Her most recent works include “Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny” (2019), winner of the Gerry Brunet Memorial Award for best BC Short; and visual arts exhibit, “Yellow Peril; Celestial Elements” (2020) at the SUM Gallery. She is a co-producer of CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium and currently serves on the board of Vancouver Artists Labour Union Cooperative (VALU CO-OP). www.jensungshine.com

Jen Sungshine

Rita Wong

Rita Wong lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver.

Dedicated to questions of water justice, decolonization, and ecology, she is the author of monkeypuzzle, forage, sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai), undercurrent, perpetual (with Cindy Mochizuki), and beholden (with Fred Wah), as well as the co-editor of downstream: reimagining water (with Dorothy Christian). See 1308trees.ca for what she has recently been working on.

T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss works range over 30 years and have always focused on sustainability, permaculture techniques, Coast Salish cultural elements and have included themes of ethnobotany, indigenous language revival, Salish weaving and digital media technology.

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T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss

The Paueru Gai Dialogues – reflections The Paueru Gai Dialogues – take four The fourth session of the online Paueru Gai Dialogues Doris Chow has a deep passion for grassroots community building and was held on Saturday, April 24, 2021. disrupting the status quo, and has been working in community developGuest host Jeff Masuda facilitated the session with ment and social enterprise in the DTES since 2008. panelists Doris Chow, Justin Sekiguchi, and Chris Livingstone.

Christopher Livingstone is seasoned tent city resident, having lived at the Woodsquat in 2002, Victory Square in 2003, CRAB Park in 2003 and A Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor Anita Place in 2019. He is a Mental Health Worker conducting outreach at Queen’s University, Jeff is Sansei with ancestral with Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre and co-founding connections to Powell Street. The stated aim of the member of the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS), session was to shift the white-centered colonial lens and a Director of the Aboriginal Front Door Society. . on housing, racial discrimination, and dispossession Justin Sekiguchi has worked as a homeless outreach worker, activity to an exploration of what it means to live and work on programmer at Oppenheimer Park, and he is now an operations director behalf of the multiracial and diverse community that for local non-profit MPA Society. Born and raised in Vancouver’s Historic dwells today on the unceded and occupied Indige- Powell Street District/Downtown Eastside, he has lived and worked in nous territories of the Downtown Eastside. the community for most of his life.

The following is a modified version on Jeff Masuda’s presentation

Old Roots and New Relationships on Indigenous Lands A conversation with peer organizers in the Downtown Eastside adapted from the presentation by Jeff Masuda How can Japanese Canadians request the return of lost property in the Powell Street neighbourhood without perpetuating colonial practices?

We respectfully acknowledge that our discussion takes place on the unceded stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) and Katzie Nations.

We are centering today the rich history, culture, and knowledge of the peoples on whose land the DTES now occupies, as well as the many Indigenous peoples from other nations who live, work, play, and pray in the DTES, many of whom I have been fortunate to learn from and befriend.

It’s this continuous and firm rooting of Indigenous peoples on this land that is a testament, less to the impacts of colonialism than to its limits.

What I mean is that the rupture of colonization, the agenda to “root out” the original landholders from this land despite best efforts, in fact failed, even while the land was dispossessed and transformed.

The metaphor we are working with – of roots and uprooting – also speaks to how colonial ruptures in other parts of the world have brought a multitude of peoples from across and beyond Turtle Island. These people set down new roots time and time again over the past century and a half, along the way building the neighbourhood we know today as the Downtown Eastside.

Our panelists are themselves diversely rooted in the community, and the work they will share speaks both to these “old roots” and also exemplifies the theme of “new relationships” – this is because, while all three have been working for many years on common issues in the DTES, they have had limited opportunity to get to know each other, even if they know “of” each other.

This dialogue is therefore an opportunity for all of us on the call today – for new relationships on our panel and with you the audience – to find power in new relationships, rooted in common interests even while constantly undermined by vested interests that are imposed from the outside and that seek to divide the community.

The interest we wish to emphasize is the colonial prize itself – the land: land turned to property; land turned to housing; land turned to “ghetto,” to “skid road”; land later turned to tourist attraction, to financialized commodity – to multi, multi-million dollar buildings that are in fact on the precipice of collapsing. continued on page 16

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I hope that we will learn today how this same land has also steadfastly joined them in 1921, and Uncle Min and Auntie Kay provided for the people who dwell on it, or rather with it – a shelter, a were born within a few years. For a time, the young family lived and worked in the Old World Hotel; not refuge, a “living room,” a community. surprisingly, the only memory that was shared with In centering the land, I want to draw from Vancouver-based poet and me about this time was playing on Powell Grounds. scholar Rita Wong, who poses this question to the racialized peoples Eventually the family left Vancouver – moving to who organize for justice on Turtle Island: Shawnigan lake on the Island by the early 30s. Within “What happens if we position Indigenous people’s struggles instead of the decade, they would find themselves back in the normalized whiteness as the reference point through which we come city, passing through Hastings Park before heading to articulate our subjectivities [that is, who we are]? How would such a east to Alberta, never to return. move radically transform our perceptions of the land on which we live?”

As it happens, it was 33 years after their expulsion Now, as your host, my role is limited, and rightfully so. Unlike our panthat I was born in Taber, Alberta, just a prairie handful elists who are in the daily grind of organizing, I am at distance, both of miles from McGrath, and it was 33 years after that– geographically as I sit here in Haudenosaunee/Anishinabe territory in in 2007 – that I found myself in Vancouver, starting a Kingston, and politically from my upper middle class academic perch as career by learning from organizers and residents of a university professor. the Downtown Eastside.

But I will take a moment to provide a glimpse of my own roots and reAt the same time, I discovered the Powell Street lationships, because I think they have some relevance to today’s conFestival, the historical connection of dispersed Japaversation, as well as something in common with many of our audience nese Canadians like myself to the neighbourhood, a members today. stranger to the local JC community yet finding something familiar about the place and the people as I discovered more about my own family’s early Canadian roots and my own identity as a descendent of the uprooted generation.

Now, 14 more years later, those of you on today’s call who know me will know me mainly by my “academic” persona – as a participant in the “Right to Remain,” or its predecessor “Revitalizing Japantown?”

Of late, our work is centred on supporting the mission of the SRO Collaborative – a powerhouse group led by long-time community organizer Wendy Pedersen and her team who have been making huge waves of late in advancing the case for improved living conditions for SRO tenants; alongside us, as always, are the festival, the Nikkei National Museum, the GVJCCA, many leaders within the Japanese Canadian community, both elders such as Grace Eiko Thomson Masuda Family October 13, 1946, photo courtesy Jeff Masuda and Judy Hanazawa, and less elder in age, including I’ll do so by dedicating my part in this discussion to two of the folks pic- Angela May, as well as several other cultural organitured here, pulling roots as it happens, and setting down roots of their zations in the DTES, and most importantly, the SRO own on a sugar beet farm – 1159.5 km east of Vancouver according to tenants who inspire us all.

Google Maps, near McGrath in Southern Alberta in 1946.

Now, here is an image (next page) that is often used My uncle Min and Auntie Kay are pictured third and second from right in this picture, joined by their parents and siblings, including my five-yearold dad, only an infant at the time of his expulsion from the West, and now the last of his generation alive. My uncle and aunt passed away this past December and March respectively. COVID has prevented me from returning home to mourn with family, but my thoughts have been in Alberta, in this land, nonetheless.

as a bookend of stories about the fate of Japanese Canadians in Canada. Such stories are often centred on our uprooting from a place, from Powell Street, and perhaps about our rerooting in other places, places like McGrath for instance.

But I want to pick another starting point for our discussion today – a starting point that actually begins in the From the few stories I’ve been told about their lives before the war, I immediate aftermath of this image, and in the place know that a place called Powell Street loomed large over their own early where our roots were pulled. childhood memories. My grandfather and his father lived and worked in And so, in honour of the Festival which is hosting tothe Downtown Eastside, spending perhaps years living at 368 ½ Pow- day’s conversation, I would like us to start by gatherell Street in the first two decades of the 20th century. My grandmother ing everyone together back on Powell Street, a place

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As you gaze back onto Oppenheimer, you encounter a scene that compels you to write the following piece, and here I encourage the audience to read the text in full. Please take note that I’ve blanked out the overtly racist terms he used to describe what he saw – but you may infer them on your own…

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Old men with hopeless faces, shuffling slowly along behind reeking pipes that foul the air as they drift by. . . Ch---men, with the inscrutable face of the Or-----l, immovably watching two soccer teams struggling in the mud of Powell Street. . . The sudden shifting of idle feet propelling semi-inert bodies elsewhere at the half time interval. . . Players standing at one end of the pitch sucking oranges and puffing cigarettes. . . A hardy breed, they scorn dressing room or heated refuge. . . . . A pair of derelicts stagger along the sidewalk, one trying to hold the other semi-erect...

He keeps complaining of a wrenched leg muscle. . . ”You kin do ‘er,” urges the other, “only half a block hic - to go!”. . . Two bedraggled In---n women, black eyes alert for the main chance, pass the idlers, their half-shy yet bold grins, indicating that the bowl of life, so empty in the vicinity, still holds a cherry or two . . .

One of the strolling wrecks is recognized as a former centre forward of class with the old Port Coquitlam team. . . No recognition at all and less life in his dulled orbs than is good to see. On the north side, across the old park where for so many years Or-----ls played when J---town was a spot where lotus-eaters strayed, is cold, forbidding, a graveyard of departed dreams. . . Shuttered and broken windows. . . Withered plants in old pots. . . Dead vines clinging to a second storey ledge. . . The old men and the Chinese drift away. . .

The I----n girls disappear, the teams depart. . . The old street is asleep again.

This article reveals many things. Certainly the racism that is the heart of both the Japanese Canadian Community, and the of its author and his clear denial of the humanity of the heart of the neighbourhood today. area's inhabitants. Consider too, the disappearance I ask everyone to imagine yourself on Powell Street. You are looking that is unfolding in the park, the empty bowl of life, south onto Oppenheimer Park, once Powell Grounds where so many the departed dreams, the literal disappearance of the young Indigenous women – in the sleeping street is generations of children have played. an implicit hope for something new to awaken.

Now, I know that many of you have stood here before. You may be picturing a sunny day at the festival. Or you might remember being among This disappearance reveals how the colonial, white a gathering of neighbourhood residents around a drum circle or a park supremacist vision for Vancouver that so many Indigbench. Your gaze might shift to the west, taking note of the beautiful enous, Japanese, Chinese, and other racialized Carenovations done to the Old World Hotel. Today the hotel is an SRO, a nadians experienced before the war carried on with designation that recalls how this building, and dozens of buildings like vigour after the war. it in the Downtown Eastside, was purpose-built to house single work- Lytle’s article was written at a time when there was a ing-class men, living in congregate conditions, even if for a time, they perverse sense of optimism rooted in the assurance also housed families like the young Masuda’s. of a return; reclamation, a repossession, a re-civilizaNow, suddenly, your gaze shifts back to the park. But this time, something has changed. In fact, you have changed. Your name is Andy Lytle and you are a sports writer for the Vancouver Sun. The year is 1949, seven years after the Japanese Canadians left town.

tion, a “revitalization” if you will, a re-rooting of a white middle class society on Powell Street, to be found in the clearance of the slum, the removal of an “urban blight.”

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This colonial, white supremacist turn of phrase set a foundation for how the Downtown Eastside was to be seen, and intervened upon, for decades to come, right up to today.

ans of mainly Chinese and Italian backgrounds traditionally used for cultivating kinship relations and forging social ties, melded with traditional political lobbying practices and transformed a heretofore relatively powerless community group into one that was hugely influential.”

What was then the promise of a more “civilized city” premised on an explicitly white settler frame of reference may be seen in language we are familiar with today: a “civil city,” a “creative city,” a “vibrant city” or even a “healthy city,” each implying a disappearance of its own kind among those who would not conform to its image.

The example of SPOTA set an important, but I would suggest vastly underappreciated, precedent for a relational approach to organizing that was not only suitable for the uniquely diverse community that had developed in the latter half of the 20th century, but absolutely necessary to face the challenges that would come with the increasingly harsh approaches that government would take by the 1980s.

This agenda was not only committed against Japanese Canadians of course! Whereas the solution to “Jap town” was to transform the area north of Hastings into an industrial district as seen in the pink area of this 1957 city plan, the green area – Strathcona – would see the city targeting what was by then a multi-ethnic neighbourhood of low-income residents – about a half of whom by then were Chinese Canadian families.

This part of the vision for the DTES was to replace the “blighted” housing of Strathcona with tidy blocks of shiny new subsidized housing in modern apartment buildings.

As it turned out, the problem with this vision was that it was entirely paternalistic, culturally inappropriate, and unwelcome for the residents of Strathcona.

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And this is where a more important story emerges In this difference between the vilification of wider Vancouver and the about this period than the story of racist policymakers lived realities of residents of Strathcona, Chinatown, and the remains of Paueru Gai, we find the makings of a diverse coalition, tied by common and their ambitious plans. roots, shared histories of persecution, and yet made powerful when it These early plans for Strathcona and the wider DTES comes together in ways that cut across race, class, and gender. turned out to be a critical moment – as it marked the beginning of what would become a permanently em- The early precedents in Strathcona set an example to be followed, perbedded “oppositional force” that arose from within haps not always faithfully, for decades, first by the Downtown Eastside the community and ultimately stopping the city in its Residents’ Association beginning in the 1970s, a group with very close ties to the founders of the Powell Street Festival, and more recently by tracks. organizations like the SRO Collaborative.

And it was a moment orchestrated in large part through the stubborn resistance of activists repre- Despite many differences in constitution, tactics, and success or failure, senting the area’s residents and small businesses in the force of community organizing from within the Downtown Eastside Strathcona and Chinatown who by the late 1960s had has proven time and time again its capacity to stand against the conformed the Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants tinued campaign to transform the neighbourhood that has come under many guises over the years: whereas long ago transformation was Association, or SPOTA. forced through riot, expulsion, and slum clearance, in more recent times It’s important though to acknowledge, as scholar Joit has become a softer kind of violence, appearing in the form of paAnne Lee has made clear, the campaign mounted by ternalistic planning and cultural spectacle. Whether Expo 86, the 2010 SPOTA was far more than a two-way conflict in deOlympics or an imagined heritage district for Chinatown and a so-called fence of a “Chinese” neighbourhood.

“Japantown” that reduces culture and history to a retail mirage; such Rather, it was a campaign that represented the whole transformations bear no resemblance to the reality of racialized working community, and was driven, often behind the scenes, class history that runs thick in the neighbourhood. by a multiracial group represented disproportionately But above the cacophony of urban plans and market forces, we also by women that included Chinese, Italian, Black, and hear the voices coming from within the community who remind us to be indeed White British working class families, who, to mindful of who is speaking in such plans and who is spoken over. Who is quote Dr. Lee, cleverly deployed “everyday social made to “disappear” such that something new can appear. practices, hospitality and food traditions that Canadi-

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Such diversity of community and such organizing know-how across the many groups who call the Downtown Eastside home – whether by residence or by ancestry – offers an opportunity for a richer narrative of what decolonization, or to borrow a term from Joanna Lee, decoloniz-ASIAN, can mean.

But the writing of this story is far from complete and far from easy, as Lee cautions: The “Deliberate erasure of racialized and Indigenous peoples and their histories from narratives about Canadian nation-formation ensures that knowledge about resistance, and tactics of survival among activist elder-leaders from these communities has not been articulated, never mind documented.” (2016) And this brings us to the present moment, which is the opportunity to articulate what our elders have taught us about how to organize on Indigenous lands across lines of so called “difference” delineated by a white colonial frame of reference. This comes at a time when the stakes are higher than they’ve ever been. The housing crisis, the toxic drug supply crisis, and of course, the COVID crisis are all hitting the neighbourhood at once.

In this last slide, we are back on Powell Street, with a view of Oppenheimer Park that appeared in the Tyee only two weeks ago, which would be the same as if you were there today: it is a precious community space fenced off for the past 11 months, closed to both the festival and to the unhoused alike in an attempt to undermine the solidarity that has come from these groups so many times before.

Jen St. Denis, The Tyee, April 9, 2021

Following Jeff ’s presentation the guest panelists were invited to join the conversation, with the discussion revolving around four topics: Your roots; Uprooting; Community rootedness; Common roots.

As noted in Jeff ’s introduction, all of the panelists – Doris Chow, Justin Sekiguchi, and Chris Livingstone – are themselves deeply rooted in the Downtown Eastside, leading to a robust discussion on living and working in the area.

As someone who came of age in Strathcona – first living with my parents in Vancouver’s first (or possibly second) housing co-op on Union Street, and then living on my own in various rental buildings – I have an investment in this area of the city, despite having left there thirty years ago. As such, the subject of the session is near and dear to my heart. When a photo of SPOTA (Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association) appeared on the screen I searched for my parents’ faces, as they joined up soon after moving into the co-op, but didn’t see them. Although I was young at the time, I remember them attending many meetings, and their sense of satisfaction at having helped stop the freeway from being pushed through the area.

But despite this intrusion, the past year has seen this well-oiled machine of organizers mobilizing nonetheless, not only to support their neighbours’ most basic needs – housing, food, harm reduction supplies, culture, and dignity – but also to call for collective action against deeply rooted colonial injustices that are Having moved many, many times during my childhood, Union Street common to all three crises. was where my parents set down their roots, feeling right at home in this This organizing, the organizers, transcend community multi-ethnic neighbourhood with its blend of artists, young families, the diversity. In its place, a solidarity that grows out of the elderly, activists and working class people of all shapes and sizes, many long, and strong, roots of this community. And as Jap- with historic ties to the community. anese Canadian elder Grace Eiko Thomson speaks The three panelists share that attachment to the neighbourhood, and a to here, the exploration of our roots, whether through commitment to supporting those who call it home. festival, through dialogue, or through mutual support in a pandemic, is also an invitation into a common his- While there have been many changes in the Downtown Eastside since I last called it home, with greater entrenched poverty and a renewed tory. urgency to fight gentrification, the roots of the community remain strong, END even if the soil around them is being eroded away.

The breakout rooms following the discussion provided a chance for those of us attending the session to mull over some of the issues being discussed and to weigh in with our own questions. The following page collates many of the questions that arose from the breakout rooms in the hopes that they provoke readers to come up with their own questions.

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Paueru Gai Dialogues – questions that arise How do my historical and cultural roots influence my connection to community?

How do we take care of ourselves while acknowledging injustices?

As many of us struggle during this time of Covid, how do we ensure How do my historical and cultural roots sever my con- safety for those around us in terms of housing nection to community?

Can we think of a new approach to community and urban planning that Does everyone acknowledge that their historical is community driven? and cultural roots might influence their connection to Is co-housing a viable alternative? community?

If our heart is in the Downtown Eastside, how do we manifest that for How do my historical and cultural roots limit my those of us who moved away? connection to community AND open the door to How do we ensure that the conversations about the DTES take exploring new connections to new communities? place in the DTES and with people who live there now?

Who is not aware of how their historical and culWhat is community? tural roots influence their connections to differWhat kind of language can we use to find connection? ent communities?

Is there one connected community?

What communities are we even talking about?

Are historical and cultural roots the same?

How do our historical and cultural roots overlap?

Does having a strong focus on reconciliation with Indigenous people help bring all of our communities together?

Can a strong focus on reconciliation with indigenous people help bring all our communities together?

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What action, bringing together emotion and language, can we use to find connection?

Ask everyone and ask yourself, how colonized are you?

And ask yourself, how racist are you?

What does your colonized look like in the world, what do you do, what do you say?

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How can solidarity with community roots be better supported?

How colonized are you? How racist are you? If you – if we – are that colonized, that racist, then what truths and actions (reflecting our different emotions and languages) can bring us together and lead us forward?

What have I learned from my own community experiences that I can pass down to others?

Large movements start from a smaller groups of people in the room How do we stop the pipelines? How do we protect sharing ideas and passion about a subject. the land, water, or homes of current generations so that future generations (human and non-human) can Lived experiences are just as valid as documented experiences. Bringing up voices that are ignored and silenced, factoring in the intersections enjoy them? of identities... how do we center people’s voices that need to be heard How do we think about moving forward and success the most? without turning to colonial frames? How do we enact How do you unite people, tapping into the communal frustration while Coast Salish protocols, values and practices today? keeping others safe?

What are some ways that we can ground ideas that are formed in colonial institutions into community set- How do we best participate in using these community connection in addressing the repossession of indigenous land? tings?

What knowledge and experience from my community Can a strong focus on reconciliation and decolonization help bring all of our communities together? do I want to share with others?

How do we ensure the knowledge and experience What kind of collaboration/organization do we need on a street level to create the kind of momentum where people from diverse backgrounds we learned is perpetuated? come together to be responsible to each other and work together for How do we pass on a culture of connection for future justice? generations?

How can we differentiate our connection to the land as a space that is Houses by definition have walls – how do we build governed (think Canada/colonialism) from our connection to the land as community without walls? a place that holds our memories, our struggles, as a place that supports us and a place we support in turn?

To view the entire Old Roots and New Relationships on Indigenous Lands presentations and questions, visit bit.ly/PGDno4

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update Online Programs from Powell Street Festival – Mark your calendars!

Learn the Paueru Mashup Community Dance Thursdays, April 22 through May 27, 5 – 6pm

Paueru Gai Dialogues Fourth Saturday of the Month, 1 pm to 3 pm PST

Online Lessons Kaya Tsurumi/Company 605 provides easy-to-follow lessons via Zoom to community members from across North America! All ages, all bodies – please join us!

May 22 | The Changing Environment and Humanity Global warming and environmental protection are big inaccessible topics that point to news headlines, oil companies, pipelines and government policy. Guest host Haruko Okano will facilitate a discussion with panelists Jen Sungshine, Rita Wong, and T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss, who will provide insight into their daily lives, art practices and activism. Through houseplants, the food we eat, words we use, and lessons from Indigenous knowledge keepers, we can deepen our understanding of how we live in the world today, and how that contributes to the future of all beings.

NEW SERIES – Talking the Walk: Reflections on 360 Riot Walk is a series of online panel discussions that use 360 Riot Walk as an entry point to explore the history of anti-Asian violence and white supremacy in Vancouver.

May 29, 2pm to 3:30pm | An Embodied Experience of History Former participants from the guided walking tours share insight into their embodied experience of using Virtual Reality technology to invoke site-specific histories. With Sue Shon, Kathryn A. Bannai, Debbie Cheung, facilitated

by Adiba Muzaffar.

June 19, 2 pm to 3:30 pm PST - The Complexity and Nuance of Cultural Translation Translators for the Punjabi, Chinese and Japanese versions of the project address the power and subtleties of language and the challenges they encountered in translating the script of 360 Riot Walk. With Catherine Chan, Yurie Hoyoyon, Masha Kaur, facilitated by Henry Tsang.

July 10, 2 pm to 3:30 pm PST - What’s At Stake Contributing writers to the 360 Riot Walk website speak to a breadth of significant issues and events that led to and resulted from the 1907 riots. With Angela May, Michael Barnholden, Melody Ma, Paul Englesberg, facilitated by Henry Tsang.

June 26 | Reconsidering Land, History and Belonging How can we fight against the dominant frameworks of capitalism and settler colonialism to conjure different futures? 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.

Plus, September 18, October 16, and November 20 All programs are free.

Visit www.powellstreetfestival.com for details and registration links.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Wednesday, May 19 – Katari Taiko at 6:30pm and PSFS at 7:00pm Our AGM will take place online via Zoom this year. Please register through our Eventbrite link to receive your AGM package and Zoom Link. REGISTRATION LINK: https://bit.ly/2Ri64Z6

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TorontoNAJC www.torontonajc.ca

SYSTEMIC RACISM AND THE VOTE FOR JAPANESE CANADIANS, IT’S NO JOKE WHEREAS this day marks the date more than 70 years ago when legal restrictions limiting movement of Japanese Canadians were removed. On April 1, 1949 Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry were given the right to vote and the freedom to live anywhere in Canada.

A Freedom Day celebration at Toronto City Hall in 1986 included the Honourable Tom Berger and Justice Maryka Omatsu. The 2021 event was hosted by The Greater Toronto Chapter of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC). The NAJC was founded in Toronto in 1947.

Today is a day to acknowledge the contributions of the Japanese Canadian community to the city of Toronto while recognizing the difficult path to belonging faced by generations of Japanese Canadians.

The city of Toronto is committed to promoting fundamental human rights and is working to address all forms of discrimination and stand up against hatred, intolerance and discrimination.

NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor John Tory, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim April 1st, 2021 as Japanese Canadian freedom day in the city of Toronto.

On Thursday, April 1st, Japanese Canadians from age 20 to 94 gathered for an online celebration to remember April 1st, 1949 the day that Canadians of Japanese descent gained the right to vote. The event began with an announcement by Mayor John Tory formally recognizing the importance of this day by proclaiming April 1st, Japanese Canadian Freedom Day in Toronto.

Mayor Tory remarked that, “Students of history, as I once was, might pause and wonder why there is a Japanese Canadian Freedom Day celebrated in Canada on April 1st. And they might conclude that it was a special historical day in Japan itself. But a careful reading of Canadian history will tell you that April 1st, 1949 was the day when Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry were allowed under the law, the freedom to live in a place of their own choosing.”

THE JAPANESE CENTENNIAL TEMPLE BELL & THE FUTURE OF ONTARIO PLACE Two U of T Architecture students are engaged in advocacy work to build public awareness of the heritage value of Ontario Place and reimagining its future as a cultural asset.

Their project in collaboration with the Future of Ontario Place Project and the Toronto NAJC ad hoc, Friends of the Temple explores the significance of the Temple Bell to the Japanese Canadian community in Ontario. The process of collecting photos and stories is underway.

For more information or to contribute to the project and help us protect the legacy of the Temple Bell check our website: www.torontonajc.ca/ friends-of-the-temple-bell/ or contact: communications@torontonajc.ca

Election data has shown that Japanese Canadians have the highest voter turnout of any visible minority group born in Canada. The influence of this history is evident in the voices of young Canadians of Japanese descent.

One said: “The importance of voting was instilled in me by my dad. We come from a family of Japanese Canadians who have not always been granted the right to vote and so the value of that right was passed Event updates and registration at www.torontonajc.ca down to me.”

Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi, President of the Toronto TORONTO NAJC MEMBERSHIP NAJC recalled that “many of my aunts and uncles, born www.torontonajc.ca/membership/2021-membership in Canada before the 1920s were not able to vote until they were nearly 40 years old.”

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TERRY WATADA

WHAT’S IN A NAME? PART TWO

by Terry Watala For a recent poetry reading I did for the Art Bar Poetry Series, I was promoted on Facebook and other platforms as “Terry Watala”. And even though I complained and asked that the mistake be corrected, it remained as is. Fortunately, the host pronounced it correctly. To think I was not offended is wrong. A person’s name is tied to identity and I have no desire for that to be erased.

Unfortunately, I’m not too familiar with my family history. I was named after my grandmother and she spelt it this way, Meriko Nakamachi. I think they were too ashamed to be Japanese after the camps and didn’t share much about their history with us.

Shaun Tanaka My name is Shaun, so I know exactly what it’s like for people to assume you’re a man until they meet you.

My students at the college where I taught called Courtnay Naito me “Mr. What-a-day”. Don’t know if they were Weird that you should mention this because I was mocking me or just got it wrong. In any case, I didn’t retaliate or even try just thinking about it recently. At my work where all to clear the discrepancy. Young people. clients have accounts, I notice my co-workers have On another occasion, I was introduced to an audience at the National absolutely no familiarity with non-westernized names Theatre in Ottawa as the playwright, “Terry Owan”. Owan? The host and can’t tell who they might be addressing when was reading from notes on paper in front of him. Where is the “O” in they call. my name? Why does Watada come out as “wan”? He was allegedly an Keiko Norisue educated man – he proudly wrote a PhD after his name and a Dr. in Many times on the phone, people ask me if there is front. He was Chair of the Board of Directors at the Queen Street Mental Mr. Keeko or Mr. Kaiko.

Health Centre. Well credentialed, he should’ve got a name right. You Diane Ferguson would think.

My Japanese name is Yuki and every Japanese These mishaps could easily have been avoided with a simple question National I’ve ever met says it should be Yukiko. to me. An apology would’ve been nice.

Lauren Kyoko Louie I later found out that this is a common problem among Asians, Japanese My English name is Laurence, so people get confused. especially. I have had Chinese students who changed their names to [about gender] conform to “Canadian ways”. One student called herself “King” Kong.

Another was “Hitler” Lee. When I asked why “Hitler”, he said he had Nori Tanaka bought a history book and found that the name was the most “popular”. How about being named Nori? First, many think it’s a male name and then I am often asked if I was Japanese names seem to be particularly problematic. Tane, for example, named after sushi. My parents dropped the ‘ko’ to becomes Jane or is pronounced as a single syllable. Thus, Tane is “Canadianize” my name. pronounced as Jane only with a “t”. Others have said in the following So, what’s in a name? A lot, apparently. Some thread: JCs I know get quite agitated when their name is Meriko Saito mispronounced. It is wrapped up in cultural identity, Throughout my life, I have constantly had people see or hear my first community history, and pride. When I was a kid, I name and assume I’m a male (until they see me in person). Mostly due to would hide my middle name out of embarrassment, the influence of Italian male names ending in “-o”. I don’t know why, but perhaps shame, but not anymore. Teruo Watada is my I hate it so much! Probably because I’m a proud woman. name and not Watala, What-a-Day or Owan!

I feel like a lot of our culture, like language, was lost after the camps as well. I’ve always hypothesized that to be the reason at least. We still eat a lot of the foods, but language was totally lost. photo: Tane Akamatsu

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TO THE EDITOR

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JCCA Donations

Thank you, Thomas Berger

The Greater Vancouver JCCA and The Bulletin gratefully acknowledge generous donations received during April, 2021. If we have missed your name, please contact us and we will correct it in the next issue.

Japanese Canadians were saddened to hear that Justice Thomas Berger,

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political field was well-known. When the National Association of Japanese

Harumi Brown, White Rock BC

Canadians embarked on a negotiations process with the Government of

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Canada to seek an acknowledgment for the injustices during and after the

Nobue Hatanaka, Burnaby BC

Second World War, Berger freely offered his invaluable support, advice

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and knowledge in dealing with government bureaucrats and Ministers.

Akiko Kobayashi, Lethbridge AB Edith & Donald Matsuba, Vancouver BC Jack & Ayako Matsushita, Vancouver BC Greg Miyanaga, Coquitlam BC Diane Murakami, Burnaby BC Ruth Murakami, Coquitlam BC Yoko Nishi, Parksville BC Sachiko Pretty, Coquitlam BC George & Agnes Saito, Surrey BC Mitts & Keiko Sakai, Richmond BC Kiyoshi Shimizu, Burnaby BC Amie & Robert Tabuchi, Burnaby BC S. Tamura, Lethbridge AB Carol Yakura, Saturna Island BC

a great Canadian statesperson and a strong advocate for human rights, passed away. When it came to political process, we were neophytes so our first contact with Tom Berger was a godsend as his reputation in the

When the NAJC reached an impasse during the negotiation process, the NAJC regrouped in 1987 and devised a process to involve other Canadians to support redress.

With Thomas Berger as the Honourary Chair for the Coalition of Japanese Canadian Redress we received support from ethnic and civil liberties organizations, major unions, churches, local governments and many prominent Canadians. He was truly a strong supporter of the work of the Coalition that advocated for a fair and just settlement. That dream was finally achieved on September 22, 1988. Thank you, Tom Berger, from the Japanese Canadian community, for your vision, support and your encouragement to look at other ways to achieve a goal. Your inspiration and empowerment were very much appreciated.

– Arthur Miki, CM, OM Former President of the National Association of Japanese Canadians

Chieko Yano, Hope BC In Memory of my brother, George Ogawa from Clara Norris, West Vancouver BC

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PAYMENTS NOW ACCEPTED E N I L !!

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The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association and The Bulletin are now able to accept membership fees, donations, and other payments via eTransfer.

Safe, secure, and so, so simple to use, eTransfers are a great way to make payments without the use of paper cheques and stamps.

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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Presidents Message

I’m hoping everyone is enjoying this wonderful spring. The cherry blossoms are still in bloom and spring flowers are sprouting up quickly. Life is colourful out there!

For this message, I am informing the membership that on April 13 I tested positive for Covid. It was a shock but I had attended a family memorial planning event the previous week upon the passing of my dear friend on April 6. Three people at that event tested positive, which prompted me to get tested. The memorial was postponed due to this and remains to be rescheduled.

I am aware my guard was down as we were caught up with grieving while trying to establish some memorial planning.

Today I am letting the membership know because I think it is important to be open about this experience.

My famlly were all tested also and were negative. They have been in isolation though on the possibility they could show symptoms. So far all is fine.

Once I was diagnosed, the Health Care System followed up with contact tracing. So there were a few conversations with the tracer who followed up where she felt was appropriate to make sure there would be self isolation. Most of my contacts though, were with my family. They are very thorough.

Also I was told that because I was vaccinated on April 3, there was some protection for me, although for full vaccine protection, it takes 14 days, As the virus took more effect, the main issues I have been dealing with are fever, loss of taste, and fatigue. Thank goodness for Tylenol! As of this writing, I think my taste has returned! continued on page 40

membership up to date? check mailing label on back cover for expiry date! eTransfers now accepted for payment! Visit /jccabulletin-geppo.ca/membership.

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CONNECTING MEMORY WITH HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS: LANDSCAPES OF INJUSTICE DIGITAL RESEARCH DATABASE

by Kelly Fleck Often stories about my family’s history, especially those from the distant past, feel like legends or myths. They are stories from memories belonging to people long gone, often untethered to specific dates or places.

Over the last few years, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about my family history, and those stories have started to take root in real life and places.

In December of 2019, I was in Mio, Japan, my family’s ancestral home, standing in front of my great-greatgrandfather’s grave.

Mio is a small seaside village in Wakayama prefecture, with deep ties to Steveston, B.C. In 1888, Mio fisherman Gihei Kuno arrived in Steveston and saw how fruitful salmon fishing was in the Fraser River. He encouraged others from Mio to come to Steveston to work.

We believe my great-great-grandfather, Bunichi Hamade, arrived in Steveston in 1899. He would have only been 25 years old. His wife, Ito, and daughter, Hana, stayed in Mio. In 1902, he became a naturalized Canadian citizen, allowing him to work for the fishing cannery as a fish buyer, and he bought and lived on his first boat in Steveston. He urged Hana, my greatgrandmother, to move to Canada. She came in 1918, when she was only 19 years old, with her husband, Matsunosuke.

Kelly Fleck at Bunichi Hamade’s gravesite in Mio, Japan. Photo: Kelly Fleck.

family. I wanted to learn about the store Hana and Matsunosuke ran in Vancouver. The store is the centre of many of my Bachan’s stories about her childhood. While my Bachan still remembers the address, she couldn’t remember the store name, so opening Hana’s files and seeing that information in front of me was like a light going on.

In the case files, I found the store, Star Confectionery, was right where my Bachan remembered at 2700 Commercial Dr. It was a small grocery store and connected to the back was the family home, a four-room frame house that they rented for $15 a month. My Bachan always says since After writing about my Mio experience in Nikkei Hana was an only child and lonely growing up in Mio, she wanted lots Voice, Landscapes of Injustice project manager of children. I always imagine that home brimming with life from the nine Michael Abe asked if I would be interested in learning Hamade children coming and going. more about my family through case files collected in It was in front of the store where my Bachan learned to ride her brothers’ their digital archives. The archives are a culmination bike. When her brothers were busy, her father would send her off on of four years of research from project members out the bike with groceries in the basket to deliver to customers. The store of the University of Victoria, including case files from was where my Bachan learned to bake (she used to make killer pecan the Office of the Custodian, Bird Commission, land- squares). She would take a mixing bowl down to the dry storage, take title documents, fishing-boat-ledger files, and protest the flour and sugar she needed, and make treats for her siblings after a letters. long day of school and work.

Nikkei Voice has been working with the Landscapes Hana’s case files offered a glimpse into what must have been a terrible of Injustice project over the last year, sharing stories time for the store. Documents from the Office of the Custodian detail her about Nikkei’s discoveries in their family case files. experience selling the business and its contents before the family was The files have been a way to authenticate and interned in Lemon Creek. At this point, her husband was at a road camp understand my Bachan’s memories about our at Tete Jaune. Her eldest sons were also sent to road camps, Isao to

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Hana was left alone to sell the business with her seven other children, the youngest five months old at the time.

The files detail an inspection made by H.D. Campbell of the store and its stock. Hana valued her grocery stock at $700 and the store fixtures at $300. My Bachan, 12 at the time, remembers watching Hana go through each item in the store with a man, I’m not sure if this was Campbell or the person who ended up buying the business. Each price Hana proposed, he would counter with a lower price.

Hana Hamade. Photo: Hamade Family.

In Campbell’s report, he valued the grocery stock at $300 to $400, and he writes the continued on page 41

Bunichi Hamade. Photo: Hamade Family.

continued on page 27 Hana Hamade at 17 years old with her grandmother. Photo: Hamade Family

Hana Hamade’s letter to H.D. Campbell on the sale of the store.

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Landscapes of Injustice is excited to announce our Digital Research Database loi.uvic.ca/archive The Research Database contains materials from many archives to provide visitors with thousands of records related to Japanese Canadian history and the dispossession of their property in the 1940s. The materials have been organized so that visitors can browse and search this immense collection with ease. With the guidance of Project Director Jordan Stanger-Ross and specialists Lisa Uyeda and Stewart Arneil , the LOI digital archive team created this as part of knowledge mobilization efforts which also include a narrative website, a touring museum exhibit (Broken Promises), as well as primary and secondary school teaching resource sites. We hope that the Research Database serves as an enduring resource for members of the Japanese Canadian community and the wider researching public and stands as a testament to a history of injustice. It will also be updated periodically with new research, as activities related to Landscapes of Injustice continue.

Community Drop-In Sessions Users of the Research Database are also invited to monthly information, exchange, and support sessions, being organized by the project on the last Wednesday of every month. Please join us for the next session on May 26 at 12pm PDT. Bring your questions as well as any reflections you have on what you have been finding in the database.

The link for the sessions is here: http://bit.ly/LOI-dropin Meeting ID: 871 3411 4709 Next sessions Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Wednesday, June 30, 2021

12:00 pm PDT 11:00 am PDT

Links to past events Launch event session 1 March 28, 2021 https://youtu.be/wZhamaJEH7o Launch event session 2 March 31, 2021 https://youtu.be/HPpNs5cKaQE

For more information about the Digital Research Database visit https://www.landscapesofinjustice.com/announcements/digital-research-database-landscapes-of-injustice

Milestones HIGANO, Thomas The Higano family is sad to announce the passing of Thomas Shigeru Higano on April 13th 2021. Thomas was born in Duncan BC and met wife to be Susan in Vancouver. He passed away peacefully in Burnaby General hospital after a long fight with Parkinsons at the age of 90. He leaves behind wife Susan sons Martin and David (Devina and grandchildren Anya and Kaly) Sisters Elsie,Mabel and Lilian.

MATSUTANI, Yoshie 1929 - 2021.

Yoshie Matsutani, 92, passed away peacefully on April 22, 2021. She was born in Vancouver, BC, but grew up in Japan with her siblings Kazue, Tom, Aiko and Yukie. Upon return to Canada, she married Hidehiro in 1956, and had children Grace and Martin.

Dad will be dearly missed.

Yoshie is survived by her brother, 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.

Rest in peace

NAGATA, Miyuki With sadness in our hearts, the family of Miyuki Nagata (nee: Yoshida) announces her passing on April 4, 2021. She will be remembered with love by her children Wayne, Lynne and Dale as well as grandchildren Kai, Kesia and Connor. Miyuki is survived by many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband John Shuji; parents Asataro and Masu; sister Midori and brother Charlie Masato. No service due to COVID. We hope you might consider planting a tree in Miyuki’s memory. Flowers and Koden gratefully declined. Sincere thanks for the support of caring staff at Courtyard Terrace and Burnaby Hospital.

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Alice Bradley CommunityKitchen with and Lea Ault

lea@hapaizakaya.com

We’re all asking ourselves if it was real, that too-brief two weeks of sunshine and warmth. Now we’re back to the usual unpredictable Pacific Northwest spring but we’ve had a taste of the good stuff and we are addicted!

So many convertibles with tops down. The dogs are ecstatic, racing round the lawn in hysterical circuits, completely forgetting to pee which is why we’re out there in the first place. The crows are collecting the tufts of hair I pull off Molly, our big shedding dog, and they heckle and terrorize Jefry, our little dog, who is shrilly excited to be out without a sweater on. The girls are trying to slip eyebrow-raising outfits past our parental radar, seeing as it’s warm enough (ish) for miniskirts.

We parents distance to watch softball practices even though hatted and masked girls are essentially indistinguishable from one another. I’m pulling weeds and trying to clean the windows (spiders, hate). Spring is well and truly with us with all her capricious stormy tantrums and curtseying cherry blossomed breezy grace. And I found a recipe which I thought would be nice for Mother’s Day brunch or dinner.

Mix together the sour cream, lemon juice and water. Add to the flour mixture and mix until it’s together but still lumpy, mixing very lightly. Press together into a ball in the bowl and cover right on the surface with plastic wrap. Chill for 1 hour. The moisture in the pastry will magically soak into the remaining crumbly bits and you will have pastry.

2 smallish zucchini (large ones don’t look as nice but 1 large will do) cut into ¼” rounds 1 minced garlic clove 1 c. ricotta cheese ¼ c. grated parmesan cheese ¼ c. grated mozzarella or any mild white cheese ½ tsp dried basil or ½ tsp of pesto (I’m going to try sundried tomato pesto next time!)

Pinch pepper 1 tsp olive oil 1 egg yolk 1 tsp water Spread the zucchini out over some paper towels in a single layer. Sprinkle with ¼ tsp of salt and let it weep for at least 30 minutes. Blot them dry with more paper towel before using.

Mix together the garlic, cheeses, basil and pepper.

Zucchini and Cheese Galette Remember the galette? Mom gave us a recipe for this free-form tart with fruit inside, my favorite kind of pie.

This free form savory pie involves slices of zucchini and a layer of cheesy goodness. The pastry recipe produces a pastry that is very like puff pastry but without all the work. It’s delicious hot, warm, and cold and fairly easy to make. The recipe comes originally from the Smitten Kitchen website but I’ve made some changes so now it’s mine mine all mine.

Pastry: 1 ¼ c. flour ¼ t. salt ½ c. unsalted butter, diced ¼ c. sour cream (light is ok) 2 t. lemon juice ¼ c. ice water I use a food processor for the first part of this, but you are welcome to use a pastry cutter. Whizz the flour and salt briefly, then add the butter and pulse until it’s crumbly but there are still little chunks of butter. Transfer to a medium mixing bowl and chill.

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Preheat the oven to 400F, rack in the middle. Roll out your pastry dough into a 12” round. Transfer carefully to a parchment paper-covered halfsheet pan or a pizza pan, edges overhanging. Spread the cheese mixture over the centre, leaving a 2” border of pastry. Overlap the zucchini in rings on top of the cheese and drizzle with a tsp of olive oil. Fold the pastry over the edges, pleating neatly where necessary. Brush the crust with the egg yolk mixed with water and bake 30-40 minutes or until it’s all golden brown and sizzly. The edges may be a bit buttery but just mop that up before mother sees it. Serve with a salad involving tomatoes because the red will be pretty and the flavours complement each other.

Mom and I can’t spend time together, but we do exchange baked goods, mostly Mom bringing stuff to us as we have teenagers, and this is her latest offering. It’s mighty fine. We used it to celebrate my getting the AstraZeneca vaccine.

French Country Strawberry Cake ½ cup butter, at room temperature 1 cup sugar 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 ½ cup all purpose flour 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt

½ cup sour cream 16 ounces fresh strawberries, hulled and cut into quarters or sixths, if they are large.

you’re bothering and serve with your favourite salsa, sour cream and a green salad with tomatoes and avocado and some chopped mango.

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 9 inch springform pan, line bottom with parchment paper and grease. Or use non stick cooking spray.

Editor’s note: the following recipes are “leftovers” from Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. the April Bulletin, where they were not included as we Cream butter until soft, gradually beat in the sugar. Beat in the eggs one were “full.” at a time, then mix in vanilla. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the sour cream, starting with flour and finishing with it. Gently fold in the prepared strawberries.

Herbed Potato Casserole

5 medium potatoes, peeled and sliced to ⅛” thickness Spoon into the prepared pan and bake in the middle of the oven for 50 1 medium onion, chopped finely minutes. Test for doneness with a toothpick, until the toothpick has no 3 tablespoons butter wet batter on it. Cool completely. Sift some icing sugar on it lightly before ¼ cup flour serving. Can be served plain or with either plain or vanilla yoghurt.

2 cloves garlic, finely chopped or grated 2 cups chicken or vegetable broth, low sodium 2 tablespoons mayonnaise Even though we’re isolating in a big way somehow we’re still busy. Here’s 2 tablespoons chopped parsley a quick recipe you can throw together for the family. Easy, tasty, and has ¼ cup chopped green onion (or chives) a mystifying name to debate with your mouths full of creamy chicken ½ teaspoons thyme goodness. ¼ teaspoons white pepper or more to taste Salt to taste 1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese (or other grated cheese) I’m not sure if the Swiss know they’re responsible for an enchilada but for Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a shallow (rather than some reason this recipe is known as Swiss Enchiladas. Don’t come at me deep) casserole with butter or oil or spray. about authenticity. There’s a can of soup in the recipe. This isn’t Mexican/ Melt butter in a saucepan and add flour and garlic, Swiss Cooking Corner, it’s Easy/Tasty Cooking Corner. saute for a few minutes. Gradually add the broth, cook 1 T. butter and stir over medium heat until sauce is thickened 3 green onions, chopped and comes to a boil. Remove from heat. Whisk in the 2 cloves garlic, minced mayonnaise, parsley, green onions, thyme and pepper.

1 tsp chili powder Add salt to taste last. Arrange a layer of potato in the 1 tsp oregano greased casserole dish. Spread some of the sauce 1 of those small cans of diced green chiles on top, then sprinkle on ½ of the onions. Continue 1 can cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup (the lab report isn’t with another layer of potato, sauce and onions, finish back yet but I’m pretty sure these are essentially the same substance) with potato and sauce, spread smoothly. Cover the ½ c. sour cream casserole or cover tightly with foil, bake in a 350F 1 c. shredded cheese degree oven for about 45 minutes. Remove cover, and 2 c. chopped chicken (I used the cooked breast slices from Costco) bake for another 10-15 minutes or until the potatoes 6-8 small tortillas (you can use corn or flour but my family likes flour ones are done when tested with a fork. Sprinkle the grated and they’re easier to work with) cheese on top and increase heat to broil, bake until ¼ c. milk, and ½ c. milk - separate top is nicely browned.

Chopped green onions and/or cilantro if you’ve got nothing else to do • This is a nice change from scalloped potatoes and while it bakes, haha goes well with roasts, or grilled meats and poultry. You Oven: 350F can also cube or julienne the potatoes instead of slicing

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Melt the butter in a saucepan, and saute the green onion and garlic. Add • I use low salt broths for cooking so you can season the chili powder and oregano, then add the canned chiles, soup and sour to your taste. Regular broth is often too salty cream and ½ c. milk. Set aside roughly ⅔ of this mixture. Into the other • You could use other herbs such as marjoram, sage third mix the chicken and half the cheese. or tarragon Distribute this mixture into the tortillas (my 11 x 13” casserole fit 8), roll up continued on page 33 and place in casserole seam-side down.

Mix the ¼ c. milk into the remaining sauce and spoon down the middle of the row of enchiladas. Sprinkle with cheese and bake 30-35 minutes or until it’s all hot and bubbling. Sprinkle with the green onion/cilantro if

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPANESE CANADIANS

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Lorene Oikawa Welcome to May, warmer weather and the beautiful Sakura, Japanese cherry blossom season is making its way across Canada.

The National Executive Board has been very busy and we have some progress to report. This month’s president’s message will highlight a number of the announcements which you will see in publications such as The Bulletin and Nikkei Voice, and also on our website, social media, and in our newsletters.

The National Association of Japanese Canadians, since its inception in 1947, has focused on the needs and concerns of the Japanese Canadian community including our work on addressing racial discrimination so that we have a safe, inclusive society for all.

Our work today includes ensuring that the history of the Japanese Canadian community is preserved and shared to prevent future injustices. We also remember we have Japanese Canadian survivors who are living communications and social media administration. This is an exciting today and they deserve the respect and supports they opportunity to work and learn with a national non-profit organization and were once denied. contribute to our work for the Japanese Canadian community. Applicants One of our announcements is that Nikkei Seniors must be between 15 and 30 years of age (inclusive) at the start of Health Care & Housing is receiving a BC government employment as required under the Canada Summer Jobs program and grant which will benefit Japanese Canadian survivors must be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada. We expect who were directly impacted by the actions of the 1942- the position to start in May or June 2021. For more information please go 1949 BC government. Seniors health and wellness is to the full posting at najc.ca one area that has been researched and developed May is also Asian Heritage Month, our annual celebration of our Japanese as a recommendation by the NAJC. Read more about heritage, and our Japanese Canadian traditions and our community. For how this grant came to fruition in BC Redress Project our health and safety, many of the events will continue to be virtual. This Director Susanne Tabata’s article (page 8). opens up the opportunity to have a national audience join in the enriching Another announcement is the agreement reached discussions. by the Anglican Church of Canada and the NAJC NAJC Young Leaders Committee Chair Stephane Hamade advises that to provide healing support to Japanese Canadians there will be a Young Leaders Trivia Night on May 16. More information affected by the actions of Mr. G. G. Nakayama, a will be posted on this fun and social evening. former Anglican priest from 1934 to 1994, who sexually abused Japanese Canadian boys. Please read the On May 21, Re-Discover the Stories of Japanese Canadians in Surrey. joint statement. Also, the Japanese Canadian Working This is a follow up to a community event that was held in Surrey in 2017.

Group will be holding a meeting on June 26, 2021 to We are providing this opportunity for you to hear and share the stories of introduce the Anglican Healing Fund. See the meeting Japanese Canadian family pioneers in Surrey. Please join us. 5pm PDT | 6 pm MDT | 7pm CDT | 8pm EDT Pre-register at bit.ly/JCSurrey notice for details (page 12).

As this president’s message was about to be submitted, Please check out our Online Programs section http://najc.ca/onlinewe received word that the NAJC has received approval programs on our website as new sessions continue to be added. for Canada Summer Jobs funding. We have a 10 week full-time contract position for a NAJC office administrator position. Responsibilities will include

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPANESE CANADIANS We also have some deadlines coming up.

The deadline for the nomination 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/ The deadline to apply for the NAJC Endowment Fund grant 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 and other resources such as

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Frequently Asked Questions are posted on the NAJC website http://najc. ca/funds-and-awards/najc-endowment-fund/ Please sign up to our NAJC e-news so that you receive updated information about our events and opportunities and news. Sign up at http://najc.ca/subscribe/ Also, follow our social media Facebook https:// www.facebook.com/najc.ca Twitter @najc_ca and our new Instagram najc_national One last reminder is that the Census 2021 census.gc.ca/ starts in May. The last census was in 2016. The data collected helps inform policy being made at all levels of government and is an important tool for good evidencebased decision making by all groups. At a meeting held with Statistics Canada last month, I presented the Japanese Canadian perspective along with other Asian Canadian community leaders who highlighted their groups’ perspectives. We emphasized the need for disaggregated data to ensure our communities are reflected and to help us in the fight against racism. Too often our lived experience, Asian Canadian stories are not included or silenced. Our stories must be heard to ensure an equitable and inclusive society.

The NAJC National Executive Board wishes you a happy and safe Asian Heritage Month.

Community Kitchen continued

Did you think we wouldn’t do a sweet? Ridiculous. Here’s the sweet.

Lemon Buttermilk Pound Cake 2 ¼ cup sugar 1 ½ cup butter, at room temperature 4 eggs 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind (about 2-3 lemons) 1 teaspoon lemon extract 3 ½ cup all purpose flour ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda 1 cup buttermilk ½ cup fresh lemon juice ½ cup sugar Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour a tube pan or a fluted pan like a bundt pan.

Sift the flour, then measure it and sift with the salt, baking powder and baking soda.

Beat in the eggs one at a time, then mix in the lemon rind and extract.

Mix in 1/3 of the flour, and then ½ of the buttermilk. Repeat this, ending with the flour.

Spoon into the prepared pan and smooth top. Bake in the preheated oven for 65-75 minutes. Use a toothpick inserted in the middle for doneness.

Let the cake cool in the pan for at least 10 minutes. Mix the lemon juice with the sugar until the sugar is almost dissolved. Turn the cake out and while hot, brush the surface with the lemon juice glaze, covering all the surfaces. Cool completely. Close to serving time, drizzle the cake with an icing made by mixing: 1 cup icing sugar 2 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon soft butter 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind This keeps very well under a cake dome for at least 4-5 days. Which is good, because it’s just you and your family eating it.

Cream the butter until soft and gradually beat in the sugar until the mix is light.

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

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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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First Friday of each month 7:30pm – 10pm First Friday Forum Tonari Gumi, 42 West 8th Avenue Music, diverse genres and cultures.

Standards, jazz, pop, classical, folk, world music. Poetry and other readings. Enjoy an evening of music, discussion, friendship. Admission by donation, net proceeds go towards the Aoki Legacy Endowment Fund, UBC.

Saturday August 14, 1 to 3 pm 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.

Please ensure you have updated your membership, note the 2021 Annual General Meeting date and plan to attend.

Salt Spring Online Forum Series: Conversations on Racism The Japanese Garden Society presents a series of free online forums titled “Conversations on Racism”. We will take a closer look at racial discrimination and systemic racism of the past and the present on Salt Spring Island.

The First Friday Forum will be on These online conversations are a part of our Society’s on-going efforts to hiatus until Tonari Gumi re-opens. address social injustices and to create a space for unity and reconciliation We look forward to seeing you all in the community. again!

We will be hosting three conversations in spring and two in the fall.

Tonari Gumi Facility Limited Re-opening The facility is open for Library use and to provide Community Services by appointment. Please call Tonari Gumi, 604.687.2172 to make an appointment.

Open from Monday to Thursday 10am to 2pm For VCH guidelines and opening details, please go to our website www.tonarigumi.ca

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Wednesday, May 12, 7pm – 8:30pm It Takes a Village Wednesday June 2, 7pm – 8:30pm Where Are You Really From? Questioning the Question To register and for more information: saltspringjapanesegarden.com/conversations-on-racism

TWObigsteps Collective presents Departure | Two new works by Marissa Wong and Katie Cassady Streaming Live: Friday May 28 | 8pm PST and Saturday May 29 3pm + 8pm PST Tickets $15/$20/$30/$40 Details and tickets: https://thedancecentre.ca/event/marissa-wongtwobigsteps-collective/2021-05-28/ Presented in partnership with The Dance Centre

The Cultch presents 1 HOUR PHOTO Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (Vancouver) May 28-30, 2021 MAY 28: 7:30PM OPENING MAY 29: 7:30PM MAY 30: 12PM *all showtimes in PDT WHERE: ONLINE — streamed pre-recorded performances, followed by a live online talkback with the playwright.

TICKETS: Tickets from $29. Single tickets on sale now through The Cultch’s Box Office: 604.251.1363 or thecultch.com/event/one-hour-photo The Cultch is pleased to join vAct’s (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre) virtual tour of 1 Hour Photo, a cinematic adaptation of Tetsuro Shigematsu’s award-winning play.

1 Hour Photo is the story of Mas Yamamoto, a man whose life was swept up by the major currents of the 20th century. From growing up in a fishing village on the banks of the Fraser River, to being confined at a Japanese Canadian internment camp during World War II, to helping build the Distant Early Warning Line in the Canadian Arctic during the height of the Cold War. “Mas' life is a story of resilience, and the triumph of the human spirit,” says playwright, Tetsuro Shigematsu.

In 2017, 75 years after the Japanese Canadian internment, vAct premiered 1 Hour Photo at The Cultch, to sold out crowds. Mas Yamamoto’s story, gleaned from hours of recorded interviews with Shigematsu over the kitchen table, illuminated a snapshot of Canadian history, which in many ways had gone unrecounted.

It resonated with audiences, and went on to win a Jessie Richardson Award for Significant Artistic Achievement, while also being short-listed for a Governor General's Award for Drama.

Now, almost four years later, 1 Hour Photo is back at another juncture in history where the story is needed more than ever.

"Back in 2017, 1 Hour Photo was a highly personal celebration of my friendship with Mas,” says Tetsuro Shigematsu. “But now, with hate crimes against Asians on the rise, this story has become a timely reminder that the best way to fight xenophobia is by feeling the kind of empathy only powerful storytelling can incite." vAct made the decision to take this important story on tour in the only way possible. “Our theatre/film hybrid came about when I was trying to figure out a way of filming our touring show, 1 Hour Photo, that had quality, and the feel of a live audience, by bringing them into a conversation with the playwright at the end of each show,” says Producing Artistic Director Yamamoto. By bringing Vancouver based film production company Brightlight Pictures G V J C CA on board, vAct was able to produce a high quality, cinematic adaptation of 1 Hour Photo that could be toured across the country (and to Los Angeles) digitally. The Cultch is honored to be a stop on this one-of-a-kind tour, and to continue to share Mas Yamamoto’s incredible life story with their audiences.

"1 Hour Photo is a powerful piece of writing that insists that the complex history of Canada, including the wrongs imposed on groups of people, must be remembered."

— University of Toronto Quarterly

The 35th edition of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival will stream this summer from June 25 to July 4.

Sharon Minemoto Quartet Friday, June 25, 2021 Frankie’s Jazz Club 7:30pm $20 Vancouver-based keyboardist/melodica player Sharon Minemoto is a swinging and sensitive performer with a highly melodic style. She is also the composer of some very 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 saxophone, Darren Radtke bass, and Bernie Arai drums.

Details: www.coastaljazz.ca/event/sharon-minemoto-quartet-4

The Paueru Gai Dialogues #5 The Changing Environment and Humanity Saturday, May 22, 2021 1PM PST / 4PM EST Free online Zoom event Registration Required http://bit.ly/PGD-5 With guest host Haruko Okano and panelists Jen Sungshine, Rita Wong, and T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss.

GVJCCA Antiracism series May 15, 1-3pm (PST) Deconstructing the Model Minority Myth In this session we will be focusing on the model minority myth. Which communities are most affected? How is this myth perpetuated? In what ways is it harmful? How can we begin to deconstruct it? Guest speakers will provide their perspectives, followed by participant discussion in breakout rooms. All are welcome to join us in this conversation.

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TONARI GUMI CORNER

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

HONOURING THE TONARI GUMI FAMILY

Tonari Gumi is supported by many dedicated volunteers, staff and donors who are the heart and soul of who we are and what we do. Two members of the TG family recently passed on and we’d like to take this opportunity to honour them.

TG Volunteer Spotlight: Shizuko Mikurube-san Mikurube-san started volunteering for Tonari Gumi about 30 years ago. Back then, she used to come all the way from Surrey down to our centre on Powell Street. Her love was cooking and she delighted those who came to the seniors’ lunch programs. Among her many specialties, her chirashi-zushi was a great hit with everyone. We used to ask her to make two large rice cookers of the sushi, so there would be enough for people to take home. Her tsukemono made with vegetables from her greenhouses was also out of this world. She once mentioned that she and her husband were the first to grow the English cucumbers when it was first introduced in Canada.

Mikurube-san – second from the left.

TG Senior Life Seminar – Advance Care Planning (In English with Japanese translation) Lecturer: Fraser Health ACP team May 28, 2021, 10am – 1:30pm Zoom or over the phone (details will be emailed after registration) Free for TG members / $8 for non-members While she worked hard as a volunteer, she also enjoyed Inquiries / registration: 604.687.2172 ext. 102 / services@tonarigumi.ca the activities that TG offered. We made many trips (Masako) around the city and to nearby cities, but the most memorable was the fishing trip to Haida Gwaii. But we think she enjoyed the trips to Harrison Hot Springs the most!

The Japanese Community Volunteers Association, “Tonari Gumi” Sadly, Mikurube-san passed away in March at the age gratefully acknowledges and thanks the following people for their of 90. Thank you, Mikurube-san. We will all miss you! generous donations received from March 23 to April 19, 2021. Although we try our best, we may miss your name. Please contact us and we Remembering Miyuki Nagata-san will make correction in the next issue.

Tonari Gumi was sad to receive Monetary Donations Atsuko Mori, Carol Kariatsumari, Shirley Nakata, Masa the news that our former staff Schmidt, Yoko Toki, Shizu Sheburoff member Miyuki Nagata-san Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) CanadaHelps COVID-19 Community Care had passed away at the age Funds of 98. After Miyuki-san retired In memory of the late Miyuki Nagata Anonymous (1) In memory of the late Joe Yamauchi Roberta Nasu from TG, she never forgot In memory of my mother Tomi Nishimura (Canada Helps) Shawn Nishimura about us, and continued to In Kind Donations Eleanor Kaneda, Yumi Watanabe, Tadao Hirabayashi, Itsuko support us with all her heart.

Takemoto, Yoko Toki, Masayoshi Mineta, April Shimizu & generous donors, Joanne She always wanted to know Yau & generous donors, Jesse Johl & May Hamanishi (Queen Elizabeth Lions Club), what’s happening at TG, and Anonymous (5) was really happy to hear our stories. TG would like MONTHLY GIVING to extend our condolences and prayers to her family Monetary Donations Seiya Kuwabara (Floral), Sakiko Yoshida (Floral) and friends.

Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) Yumi Takase, Tamotsu Nagata, Satomi Yamashita (Floral), David Iwaasa (Gold), Tsutae Suzuki (Floral), Emiko Morita (Floral), Anonymous (Silver)

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OUR EDIBLE ROOTS

The Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden

WASABI JAPONICA ‒ HOT GREENS!

by Makiko Suzuki While sashimi and sushi are the best known and most popular of Japanese fare what would they be without that nostril clearing hit of wasabi? What many do not know is that unless you are dining at a highend restaurant most of the green paste consumed in Canada is an artificial concoction; a mixture of horseradish, mustard, starch, and green food colouring. The more popular wasabi paste or powder available at Japanese grocery stores processes a variety of Wasabi Japonica.

Wasabi Japonica is a Brassica, a plant family that includes horseradish, mustards and kale. Two varieties of wasabi exist: sawa (mizu) that grows in shallow, clear-flowing water and oka (land) or hata (field) that grows in soil. Wild wasabi can still be found growing in streams and along riverbanks in mountainous regions of Japan. Pristine mountain streams are often used to cultivate premium sawa wasabi. The thick rhizomes (underground stems) of sawa are grated and served fresh. Cultivation is exacting, requiring indirect light, high humidity and moderate ambient temperature.

The plant needs to be partially submerged in moving water. Growing sawa is difficult and labour intensive, conditions that render the product expensive. Sawa wasabi is rarely available outside of Japan.

Interest and research in commercially cultivating sawa wasabi in temperate areas of the Pacific Northwest has grown over recent years. Several companies now offer fresh sawa rhizomes priced at approximately $100 per 500 grams. Pacific Coast Wasabi Ltd., based in Vancouver, is also researching wasabi’s potential value as a nutraceutical (pharmaceutical with claims of physiological benefits). www.wasabia.com states: “Wasabi produces a suite of bio medically active molecules called isothiocyanates. These compounds assist our healthy living as antibiotics, anti-cancer agents, anti-inflammation agents and protection from neuro-degeneration.”

Cultivation of wasabi in soil has developed over 400 years ago in Japan. The leaves and stems of oka (hata) wasabi are processed into pickles and food flavouring. Oka flowers, leaves, and stems are sold fresh at markets as a garnish for vegetable dishes and soups. Field cultivation produces a high rhizome yield that is processed into tube and powdered wasabi and sold worldwide.

Some garden centres offer what appear to be oka wasabi plants, priced in one store at $35.00 for an 8” potted plant. While somewhat steep in price the plants were full of large, healthy leaves and many side plantlets.

Surplus leaves can be trimmed and enjoyed. After careful removal, plantlets can be set in water to root and later potted for additional plants.

Wasabi grows best in evenly moist, well-drained soil in a cool location under part sun. Plants can also be grown in pots on a shaded patio or inside. (Wasabi seeds are not readily available, reflecting poor germination rates.) Garden centre plants, cuttings, or naturalized plant starts are the most reliable sources to begin your wasabi adventure.

Leaves and leaf stems (side shoots) can be harvested every 6-8 weeks.

The central stalk will continue to grow, much like kale. Leaves can be eaten raw or, together with stems, pickled to create a delicious tsukemono.

Wasabi will begin flowering late January or early February and will continue to flower until early to mid-May. The flowers are edible and can be prepared as tempura, steeped as a tea, served raw in a salad, or added to soups.

‘Starts’ of wasabi rhizomes reach harvest size in fifteen months to two years. Harvest by pulling the entire plant. Clean the stalk/ rhizome and only grate the amount needed to enhance your next meal. Wrap the remainder in a damp cloth, place in a plastic bag and store in the refrigerator for use over the following two weeks or so.

Tonari Gumi Garden Club was fortunate to have received naturalized oka wasabi plants donated by Riley Park Community Garden. A large, thick rhizome was grated and taste-tested with sashimi and determined to be super delicious. Several smaller rhizomes were transplanted into the TGGC herb garden. Surplus leaves and stems were made into a simple tsukemono.

HAPPENINGS

Thanks to the effort of TGGC volunteers, the TG raised garden beds at Elizabeth Rogers Community Garden have been replaced. (The beds serve as a test garden for Japanese vegetables.) A ‘hot soil bed’ was continued on page 38

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Our Edible Roots continued also erected in Larry Okada’s front yard to enable TGGC to test Japanese vegetables requiring high soil temperature, such as Japanese sweet potato.

Many thanks to: Building project co-lead Eddie Hayashi, for his experience, wisdom, advice and use of his new truck; Carpenters John Guest, Peter Buckland and Larry Okada; General grunters Derek Imai, Samiko Guest, Mayumi Speers, Pat Sakai, Michiko Higgins, Mamiko Van Horn, Atsumi Hashimoto. Special thanks to Sharon Hara. Respecting Covid safety protocols, the work took place over several days mid April.

LET THE GARDENING SEASON BEGIN! Be sure to consult Our Edible Roots – The Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden for detailed growing tips, recipes and much more: available at www. tonarigumi.ca.

Also, a heartfelt thank you to our original TG volunteers who repaired our old raised bed in 2011. From the left: Masao Kano, Tomoyuki Hasebe, and Ed Etsuo Hayashi.

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THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS: JENNIFER AOKI VJLS-JH came into contact with Jennifer not too long ago via email when she was in the beginning stages of proposing a heritage-based short dance film that centered around [our organization]. The project’s goal is to “[physicalize] the school’s architecture and energy [and] embody experiences of obstruction, pain, and trust” from our history. [We] chose to interview Jennifer as she is a leader within the Vancouver artistic community in addition to being an emerging Nikkei voice. Her passion for her craft radiates from her and we’re so excited to get to work with her this year and follow her through her journey!

Can you provide a brief summary of who you are!

My name is Jennifer Aoki. I’m 38 years old. I have two cats that I love: MonieLove and Indiana. I’m an auntie – a really proud Auntie! I have four nieces and two nephews. I’m a very family-oriented person. I grew up in North Vancouver. I connect really well with nature.

It’s a huge part of my identity. I love to travel. I’ve been really lucky in that through my profession, I had the opportunity to live in Sweden and Berlin for a couple months. Currently, I teach dance at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. I’m also a Langara student enrolled in the recreation leadership program and I have a BFA from SFU in Dance.

What are you currently up to these days? What are you pursuing or doing in 2021?

On top of my heritage-based research, I am also working on some really exciting projects! I am thrilled to be part of #LoveVancouverBubbleProject. It’s a unique, socially distanced live installation intended to spread love and joy around the city after dark. It’ll be popping up in and around Vancouver! I am also the co-Founder & co-Artistic Director of the Body Orchestra. We are a collection of independent dance artists with a mandate to create accessible, collaborative ensemble works set to original music. Interdisciplinary collaboration is at the heart of it, and I enjoy how we work with dancers, musicians, and lighting designer to make meaningful work. Additionally, this summer at Vines Art Festival in August, I will be involved in two projects that will be presented. The first project is a partnership between the Body Orchestra and It’s Not a Box Theatre to create

a pod-play: audiences will walk along a route, equipped with earbuds and their smartphone, and they’ll have access to live music and text that will be paired with eight [dance] solos along a walking tour. The second project is a collaboration with dance artist Harmanie Rose to create a duet that explores sameness in different bodies. I also recently stepped into a role as co-artistic director of a dance company called Voirelia: a non-profit dance hub integrating dance psychology and philosophy. I am working on a project with Voirelia called Imaginarium which explores relationship with nature.

It’s so cool that you’re doing so much!

I didn’t realize how much I was doing until I wrote it down!

I’m actually also a part of The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts 2021 season for various projects. Drone Dances in Deer Lake Park is a dance film that takes the audience on a 360-degree bird’s eye view of beautiful Deer Lake with some other contemporary dance artists performing in natural settings throughout the park. Shifting Spaces, my first dance film that I created while in lockdown was presented as part of the Covid Chronicles with their programming. I am an artist in residence at the Shadbolt creating a new solo work entitled … awkward inspired by the music of Vienna’s Dysfunktional Message Control which will premiere later this month.

What’s your relationship like to the Nikkei Community?

I feel like I’m an emerging voice within the Japanese Canadian community through my artistic practice. It’s really exciting – it’s very freeing. It’s only been in the past couple years that I’ve really acknowledged my Japanese identity – and having a place within the Community. I find it’s really interesting that I never really felt validated to be like, “Yeah – I am a part of the community. I’ve always seen my grandparents as Japanese Canadians. But for myself – there hasn’t been a lot of cultural connection.

I’m choosing to honour it now. That’s kind of why I say I’m an “emerging voice” - it’s like I’m coming out of the shadows. Even though it’s always been there, I wasn’t aware of the light that was there.

How did you become involved at VJLS-JH? Excluding the heritage-based project I’m currently working on; I had always heard about VJLS-JH through my family! My very first time truly connecting with VJLS-JH was when I performed as part of the Powell Street Festival last summer. I had the privilege to dance in Tomoyo Yamada’s Emergency as well as work with Company 605, Onibana Taiko and community dancers in Paueru Mashup Dance. I remember just walking in and feeling this energy – like, “I’m home!” This deep sense of pride and my inner child being like, “Yes!” And then I did the Powell Street Walking Tour led by VJLS-JH this past fall. I learned about the hidden history of the neighbourhood prior to World War ll and display of strength by the continued on page 40

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VJLS continued Japanese Canadians during internment. The people who led it were just so nice, so open and I felt so comfortable. It was so refreshing.

How would you describe your involvement as a type of leadership?

I have a very democratic approach towards leadership that is rooted on mutual respect. I believe everyone’s voice needs to be heard. Hearing people’s voices helps inform me and this helps me attune my path to the needs of the group. I am taking a form of leadership in that, having an idea or vision and being an advocate for it. There is excitement and nervousness when I step into the role of leadership. There is fear and worry within the process. But it’s having the courage to move ahead and speak out, see who’s there, who wants to support and be involved.

Any goals for the future?

I would love to have success in obtaining the necessary funding for my future projects and endeavours!

Otherwise, definitely to travel back to Japan and Europe. It would be a dream to live in Sweden for a year to immerse myself in their culture, collaborate with some Swedish artists, and create a new work while in residency at Dansens Hus. Basically: keep dancing and making art, and travel the world; absorb cultures and meet people!

What’s coming up May 5 To celebrate Asian Heritage Month, VJLS-JH and The Hafu It Podcast have collaborated to create a 4-part Japanese Canadian heritage related podcast series.

May 27 Historic Powell Street Walking Tours to Return This May. Registration Coming Soon!

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Temple updates are found on our website

JCCA continued When I knew I tested positive, I felt some embarrassment about it, so hadn’t informed everyone. But it was that unwarranted embarrassed feeling which made me think it’s important to openly share this information. I think it is good public information.

Anyway, that is my Covid story. It is not over yet, but close. I am hoping for each of you that you are safe and remaining healthy. It is an odd time we are living in. Please take care everyone.

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NEW NISSAN AND MAZDA CAR SALES AND LEASING

Robbie Fukushima

Japanese and English 604.618.3245 Sales Manager Nissan and Mazda

Midway Mazda

King George Nissan

604.536.3644 604.538.5388 sales@kinggeorgenissan.com sales@midwaymazda.com #6-3050 King George Blvd Surrey 14948 32 Ave Diversion Surrey www.kinggeorgenissan.com www.midwaymazda.com store’s fixtures, “are considerably run down and are generally a shabby set-up, are probably not worth more than half the amount valued at and might bring, if a realisation was necessary, an amount of slightly over $100.”

With not much time to negotiate or leverage a better offer, Hana sold the business, stock, and fixtures for $175 before the family was evacuated three days later to Lemon Creek. After finding a buyer, in a letter to H.D. Campbell, she writes, “I have considerably reduced my stock, and as I apparently cannot get very much for my fixtures, I am satisfied to accept this offer.”

I told my family what I had learned over dinner one night. We were thrilled that there were things my Bachan remembered over 75 years later. And there was a collective sadness as we reflected on Hana’s experiences.

It is hard to look into these files and see your family assigned to case number and the contents of their lives assigned a value—that value being much lower than what those items were worth and what they meant to them, but it’s important not to look away.

As a Yonsei, sometimes this history can feel far away.

The stories from my Bachan are fragmented pieces and snippets, she was only a preteen at the time of internment, and her parents and older siblings protected her. At the end of March, Landscapes of Injustice launched their searchable digital research database so all curious Japanese Canadians can find their family’s case files and reclaim their family’s stories. I encourage other Yonsei to type in their family name and see what comes up and ask questions while they still can.

Kelly Fleck is the editor of Nikkei Voice, a nationallydistributed Japanese Canadian newspaper

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

When visiting Nikkei Centre please: follow signage | maintain physical distance | wear a face mask.

VISIT ONLINE: centre.nikkeiplace.org

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New publication PICTURE BRIDES 写婚妻 Written by Miyoko Kudo, English translation by Fumihiko Torigai A free e-book is available on our website in the ‘resources’ section.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the NAJC for the production of this book.

nikkeiplace.org

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Japanese Farmers’ Market | 2nd & 4th Sundays from June to October | 10am to 2pm The Japanese Farmers’ Market will be held in the Nikkei Garden from 10:00am to 2:00pm, every 2nd and 4th Sunday. Every other week, 12 - 16 vendors will be selling Japanese food and fresh vegetables. The gallery and museum shop will be open during the market. Check for updates: centre.nikkeiplace.org/events/nikkei-farmers-market/

New cookbook: Nikkei Favourites: Stories and Recipes from the NNMCC Auxiliary now available in the shop and online. Thank you to the NNMCC Auxiliary members for sharing memories and knowledge, and Metro Vancouver for funding the project.

We are balancing our inventory between our onsite museum shop and online shop. If you need help locating an item, please contact: jcnm@nikkeiplace.org 604.777.7000 ext.109 ONLINE squareup.com/store/NNMCC

EXHIBITS Extended to June 5 Broken Promises, a Landscapes of Injustice project exhibit that unpacks the dispossession triggered by the forced dispersal of the Japanese Canadian community from the west coast of BC in the 1940s. This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Hours: Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm Mini Market: NNMCC Auxiliary Committee would like to thank the following for their generous donations of items to the Nikkei Centre March “Mini Market” sales event. Your donations help the Auxiliary raise funds to support the Nikkei Centre with its programs and activities.

The quantity and variety of donated items was overwhelming, very much appreciated, and contributed so much to the success of our Mini Market. Doomo arigatou gozaimashita.

Katsuko Alberts Jane Bailey Ingrid Bubersky Julie Gibson Yukiko Gomyo Kiyoo Goto Mr & Mrs Hadaguchi Yoshi Hashimoto PERMANENT EXHIBIT – 2nd Floor Minnie Hattori + Gordon & Kyoko Kadota Landing Fumi Horii Taiken: Japanese Canadians since Frank & Naomi Kamiya 1877 George Kimura Treasures from the Collection Lana Kishiuchi Geary Kitagawa Sato Kobayashi Masumi Komori

ONGOING EXHIBITS Lost and Found – Kagetsu/ Seymour Logging Camp centre.nikkeiplace.org/exhibits/ lost-and-found

Reiko Kurushima Jeanette Leduc Teresa McKernan Pamela Mahony Marisa Nitta Joyce Oikawa Karla Olsen Hideko Onouye Karen Read Irene Rooney Michelle Rooney Grace Sameshima Yoshiko Sakurada Tom Tagami Ken & Rosemarie Takeuchi Joyce Taki

Patricia Tanaka Yukiko Tosa Becky Tsukishima Joy Tsukishima Ruth Tsukishima Audrey Vaughn Masako Walton Kaori & Mas Yano Special thank you to Kawashima-san for the lovely handmade charms which the Auxiliary sold by donation.

NNMCC Reception & Museum Shop Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00am – 5:00pm; Sunday & Monday Closed.

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

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society INTRODUCING OUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS Interviews edited by Randy Kondo The Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society is pleased to announce the appointment of two new directors to the NSHCHS Board: John Kamitakahara and Sandra Song. We asked John and Sandra to tell us a bit about themselves so that we can get to know them better.

profit organizations as a volunteer Board Advisor/ Consultant across a range of issues, including government relations.

Her knowledge of seniors is both academic and personal. As an academic, she studied the different issues and challenges facing the elderly in Canada and also volunteered at a gerontology unit during undergraduate studies in Montreal. On a personal front, Sandra has an elderly parent presently dealing with the challenges of dementia. This experience has made her more conscious that we must advocate for our vulnerable seniors to maintain a life of dignity with person-centred care. When our parents and elders cannot “voice” their concerns, we must step in to ensure they are heard. The NSHCHS’s mandate to “serve our seniors and help them lead a life with good health and vitality for all” aligns with her values and commitment to John joined the Board of Directors because of a desire to contribute to the social justice and to ensure delivery of programs and Nikkei societies and because of his personal challenges in finding good services that are inclusive and barrier-free. care and housing for his ageing parents. John recalls that his mother participated in the Nikkei Seniors’ Iki Iki program which was a bright light for her. Sandra’s knowledge of the Japanese Canadian community mainly springs from her relationship with her With COVID-19 adversely affecting the funding of many not-for-profit socihusband who comes from the Tohoku region. And, eties such as the NSHCHS, John hopes to find creative ways to raise funds as a second generation Asian Canadian of immigrant for the Nikkei Place Foundation, other local societies and businesses that parents, she understands the challenges seniors face have been affected by this pandemic. He believes that Nikkei Place with in building a life in their adopted community/homeland. the NSHCHS and the NNMCC are necessary to care for our elders and to keep Japanese culture alive for future generations. We are most fortunate to have two qualified, experienced, and enthusiastic new directors and we look Sandra currently serves as an administrator at Adler forward to their contributions to the Board and to the University and provides oversight to three graduate NSHCHS. programs in Public Policy and Administration. She possesses over ten years of policy experience in the A warm welcome to John and Sandra! federal government and has served in various not-for John is a BC-born-and-raised Sansei who is currently the owner of Kami Insurance Agencies Ltd. Being involved in the local Japanese community was not always on his mind growing up in Burnaby but this changed in his mid twenties. John developed an interest in his Japanese culture and heritage, lived in Japan for a year, and returned with a new outlook on his background. He embraced his heritage and became more involved in his father’s established insurance business. Through this work, John has made strong connections with many members of the Japanese Canadian community.

WAYS TO SUPPORT NIKKEI NATIONAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTRE • Become a member • Register for online programming • Shop at the Museum Gift Shop and online shop https://nnmcc.square.site • Become a Monthly Donor

Please contact Nikkei Place Foundation at 604.777.2122 or gifts@nikkeiplace.org for information about becoming a monthly donor.

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NIKKEI PLACE is comprised of three organizations: Nikkei Place Foundation, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, and Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society. 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.

Celebrate Mom with a Tribute Gift This Mother’s Day, honour your mom by helping the community. Making a tribute gift is a wonderful way to celebrate and honour someone special like mom! Visit www.nikkeiplacefoundation.org/tribute-pages for more information.

Thank You for Supporting Nikkei Place! Gifts from March 29, 2021 — April 25, 2021 inclusive DONATIONS Randy Iwata Akira & Mikiko Oye Alan Saunderson

In Memory of Mitsuo & Emmie Hayashi Thomas R. & Aki Li Foster

LEAFS

In Memory of Kachiko Higashitani Sandy Higashitani

Benefactor George & Satoko Uyesugi Platinum Anonymous Burgundy Anonymous Fortis BC Energy Inc. Copper Atsushi Ide Orange Harry Tonogai Hayato Ueda Green Cydney Harling Kazuo Bessho INSPIRE ACTION CAMPAIGN Anonymous Cydney Harling HONOURS & TRIBUTES In Honour of Landscapes of Injustice Digital Archive Project Kikuye Inouye In Memory of Junichi Chiba Christine Chiba Akio Tsuji Roy & Yaeko Uyesugi

In Memory of Mitsuo Hayashi George & Elaine Homma

In Memory of Masako Jessie Uyeda Naomi Hamade

MONTHLY GIVING Anonymous (2) Carina Abe Ian & Debbie Burgess In Memory of Major Tetsuo (Ted) Itani Brian & Marcia Carr C.M., O.M.M., C.D., (Ret’d) Patricia H. Chan Nancy & Richard Minato Michael & Ruth Coles In Memory of Lily & Mitsuyoshi Matsushita Grant Dustin George & Elaine Homma Masami Hanashiro Tatsu & Karen Mizushima Junichi & Atsumi Hashimoto Tad & Mitsuko Hosoi In Memory of Kiyo Nagamatsu Shaun Inouye Ed & Carole Iwanaka Kenneth & Bernadine Isomura In Memory of Miyuki Nagata Mary F. Kawamoto Dogwood Executive Team Satoko Kobayashi – for our colleague Kai Nagata Katsuko (Kitty) Kodama In Memory of Heather Natsuhara Greciana Langamon Beta Sigma Phi Richmond City Council Tommy Li Marion & Wayne Eklof Stewart Kawaguchi Takeshi Aoyama & Lorraine June Ted Kawamoto Ann Lysholm Catherine Makihara Frederick & Margaret Robertson Masako & Ken Moriyama Anne Motozono In Memory of Rosie Yoshiko Otani Roberta H. Nasu Suzuyo & John Fox Takeshi & Mizuho Ogasawara Arlene K. Mayede Chris Oikawa David & Kiyomi Minamata Hanako Oye Yodogawa Family Linda Kawamoto Reid In Memory of Gordon Saisho Jim & Norma Sawada Kevin McKenna Audrey Shimozawa Eva Shiho In Memory of Minoru Tanaka Barbara Shishido Dr. Akira & Mrs. Hamako Horii Charlotte Takasaki Stan & Jane Yip Sharlene A. Tabata

Joyce C. Takeshita Darlene Tanaka & Trevor Jones Grace Tanaka Ginzo & Harue Udagawa Hisako Wada Fred & Linda Yada Chris, Jan Yamamoto & Family Norine K. Yamamoto Sam Yamamoto Tatsuo & Mariko Yamamoto Gwendolyn Yip & Santa Ono HERITAGE ESTATE GIVING CIRCLE Yoshiharu Hashimoto George & Elaine Homma Betty Issenman Sato Kobayashi Cathy Makihara Robert & Jane Nimi Carrie Okano Linda Kawamoto Reid Richard & Gail Shinde Norman Shuto Haruko Takamori Sian Tasaka Fred & Linda Yada Sam Yamamoto We thank and honour the legacy gifts made by our supporters following their passing: Tamiko Corbett Estate of Mitsuo Hayashi Estate of Nancy Machiko Cameron

We apologize for any errors or omissions on this list. Please contact gifts@nikkeiplacefoundation.org if you have any concerns.

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4 月 17 日（土）午後開催された NAJC 人権委員会主催による Zoom イベント、移住者座談会は大成功でした。 コーディネーター、鳥飼文彦の簡単な開会の言葉に次いで、それ ぞれ異なったバックグランドから来た 4 人のゲストが、各々の体 験を共有してくれました。 メインゲストの鹿毛真理子さんの話は、子供の時に祖母から受け た影響、10 代で家族とともにカナダに移住した時のカルチャー ショック、そして、先住民のコミュニティの中でとげた精神的成長、 等々、最後に、愛と受容の大切さを強調して締めくくられました。 ふなはしけい子さんは、隣組の事務局長だけに、言葉の不自由 のある高齢者の方が、どのように政府の援助施策を受けるか、そ のほか実際的な助言を色々して下さいました。 B.C. 内部で農業に従事されている杉山よしさんは、異文化の中で のアイデンティティ、人間的成長、視野の変遷、育児のチャレンジ などを話されました。 ホワイトホースの小田陽子さんは、ソーシャルワーカーの資格を ユーコンでとったこと、娘さんを育てるうえで、日本人コミュニティ が大変役に立っていることなど、話してくれました。

4 人の話の後、52 名の参加者は、6，7 人ずつの小グループに分かれ て、自分たちの経験談を分かち合ったり、様々なトピックについて意見 を交換したり、活発な話し合いを楽しみました。トロントから B.C. まで ( イリノイ州からも！) 初めて会った参加者たちが、話し始めたら止まら ない、といった具合で、今後もこのようなあつまりを持とう、と皆の意 見が一致しました。 この Zoom の集まりが示すように、NAJC は将来の活動の中で、移住 者コミュニティの人たちに積極的に手を差し伸べ、参加の機会をもっと 作っていくことが必要なのです。日本からの移住者の数は増加する一 方なのですから、これは全く当然のことと言えるでしょう。 鳥飼文彦

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日系文化センター・博物館ニュース ご来館の際 : 館内の表示に従い、同居されている方以外との距離を保ち、マスクをご着用いただきますようお願い いたします。体調が悪い場合はご自宅に留まり、オンラインにて是非「ご来館」ください。 館内もしくはオンラインで開催されるプログラムの時間の詳細は、centre.nikkeiplace.org にてご確認ください

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工藤美代子 著、鳥飼文彦 英訳 電子書籍は日系センターウェブサイトの Resource のセクションから無 料でお読みいただけます。本書の制作にあたっての NAJC のご援助に 感謝申し上げます。

館内にて開催 イベント 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 6 月より第 2と第 4 日曜日の 10 時から 2 時まで日系ガーデンにてファー マーズマーケットが開催されます。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 が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。 centre.nikkeiplace.org/events/nikkei-farmers-market/

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Lost and Found 木材労働者たちが残したもの／シーモア木材伐採キャンプ https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/exhibits/lost-and-found/ NNMCC 活動補助委員会より、 日系センターの３月の「ミニマーケット」 へ和物その他の品物の寛大なご寄付をいただきました以下の皆様に お礼申し上げます。皆様のご寄付は、活動補助委員会が日系センター の様々な教育プログラムや活動を援助するために募る資金として役立 てられます。バラエティーに富んだ品物を大多数お寄せ頂き、 ミニマー ケットの成功に大きく貢献していただきました。ありがとうございまし た。全寄付者のリストは、日系プレース・アップデートの英語ページ をご覧ください。

オンライン 日系博物館では、デジタル・ミュージアム・カナダの協力により制作 された新しいデジタル展示「Writing Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Protest Letters of the 1940s」を開催します。この展示は、１９４０ 年代にカナダ政府が日系カナダ人の財産を強制的に売却してしまっ た事に対して書かれた、３００通を超える日系カナダ人たちによる 抗議の手紙に着想を得て制作されました。http://writingwrongsparolesperdues.ca

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日系博物館の専門家と一緒にあなたの家族の歴史をたどってみません か。リサーチ及びアーカイブの専門家のリンダ・カワモト・リードが 個別に直接お手伝いします。https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/familyhistory-one-on-one/

不正義の風景 (Landscapes of Injustice) プロジェクトの展示「破ら れた約束 (Broken Promises)」は、１９４０年代の日系カナダ人コ ミュニティーの BC 州西海岸からの強制移動をきっかけに行われた 財産没収の実態を明らかにするものです。このプロジェクトは、カ ナダ政府の援助により実現しました。 会館時間：火曜～土曜、午前１０時～午後５時

ミュージアムショップ 新入荷の料理本「Nikkei Favourites: Stories and Recipes from the NNMCC Auxiliary」はミュージアム ショップとオンラインでご購入可能です。NNMCC 活動 補助委員会のメンバーには思い出やお知恵をシェアして いただき、メトロバンクーバーからはプロジェクトへ資金提供いた だきました。ありがとうございました。 館内のミュージアムショップとオンラインショップとの間で在庫の調 整をしています。お探しのものが見つからない場合にはご連絡くだ さい。jcnm@nikkeiplace.org | 604.777.7000 ext.109 46 https://nnmcc.square.site/ 月報 The Bulletin

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チャールズ門田リサーチセンター NIKKEIMUSEUM.ORG にて 31,000 点を超える所蔵物をご覧ください！ リサーチセンターは安全対策を強化し、ご予約のみの受付です。研究 調査についてのお問い合わせはリサーチ・アーキビストのリンダ・カ ワモト・リード lreid@nikkeiplace.org まで、寄贈に関するお問い合わ せはコレクション・マネージャーのリサ・ウエダ luyeda@nikkeiplace. org までご連絡ください。戦後補償特別委員会からのご支援に感謝申 し上げます。

ポッドキャストシリーズ̶​̶Sounds Japanese Canadian to Me: Stories from the Stage 人々が互いに距離を取って暮らすこのパンデミックの時代、ポッドキャ スト Sounds Japanese Canadian to Me では、舞台芸術家のクンジ・ マーク・イケダさんをホストに、今日活躍中の日系カナダ人の舞台芸 術家たちとの深い話をシリーズでお届けします。日系カナダ人の歴史 や文化をトピックとした過去の放送回もお聴きいただくとともに、隔週 水曜日にリリースされる新しいエピソードをお楽しみください。日系セ ンターのウェブサイトもしくは、アップルやグーグルのポッドキャスト、 Spotify、Stitcher にてお聴きいただけます。

Nikkei Place Monthly Update 理事会 新メンバーのご紹介 インタービュー編集：ランディー 近藤 日本語訳：遠藤 さやか 日系シニアズ・ヘル スケア住宅協会（以 下 NSHCHS）は、ジョ ン・上高原氏とサンド ラ・ソング氏が新しく 当理事会の新理事に 任命されたことをお知 らせいたします。今月 号では、お二人にイン タビューをし、自己紹 介をお願いしました。 ジョン氏は、ブリティッ シュ・コロンビア州出 身の日系３世で、現 在は保険代理店のカ ミ・インシュランスの オーナーを務められて います。バーナビーで 育ったものの、地元の 日系コミュニティーに 積極的に関わろうとしたことはありませんでしたが、20 代の頃に転機 が訪れました。日本で 1 年間の滞在を経験したことがきっかけで、自 分のバックグラウンドについて新たな視点を持てるようになり、カナダ に帰国後は、日本の文化や伝統に関心を深めていきました。ジョンは 日本の伝統を受け入れ、父親の経営する保険代理店のビジネスに関 わるようになり、この仕事を通して、多くの日系カナダ人コミュニティー の人々と強いつながりを築いていくことになりました。 理事会に参加しようと思ったきっかけは、日系社会に貢献したいという 強い思いがあったことと、自分自身の高齢の両親に良い介護サービス や住宅環境を探すことの難しさに直面した経験があったからだそうで す。母親が日系シニアズの “いきいきプログラム” に参加して、明るい 希望を持てるようになったことを今でも思い出すとジョンは述べていま す。 新型コロナウイルス感染症が NSHCHS をはじめとする多くの非営利団 体の資金繰りに悪影響を及ぼしたことから、ジョンはこのパンデミック の影響を受けた日系プレース、地元のコミュニティーやビジネスへの 新しい資金援助の方策を見出していきたいと考えています。日系プレー ス基金、NSHCHS 及び NNMCC（日系文化センター・博物館）は、高 齢者のサポートに必要不可欠な機関であり、将来の世代に日本文化を 継承していくためにも欠かせない存在であるとジョンは述べています。 サンドラ・ソング氏は、現在アドラー大学の総務に勤務しており、公 共政策と行政に関する３つの大学院プログラムを担当しています。連 邦政府の政策に１０年以上携わった経験があり、また様々な非営利団 体において、ボランティアアドバイザー、コンサルタントとしても、政 府関連を含む様々な問題解決に尽力してきました。 サンドラの高齢者を取り巻く環境についての知識は、大学での学業を 通して、また個人的な経験を通して得たものです。在学中は、カナダ の高齢者が直面する様々な問題について研究し、モントリオールの大 学院在学中には、老年学ユニットでボランティアもしました。個人的な レベルでは、現在、認知症を患う親御さんがいらっしゃいます。この

経験から、弱者である高齢者が尊厳のある生活を保つためには、パー ソン・センタード・ケア（その人を中心とした認知症ケア）が重要で あることを提言していかなければならないと意識するようになりました。 私たちの両親や高齢者たちが声を挙げることができないときは、私た ちがその声を届けなければとサンドラは言います。“全てのシニアが健 康で元気な生活を送れるように手助けをする” という NSHCHS の責務 は、「社会的平等の実現」や「バリアフリーで受容的なプログラムを提 供すること」に重きを置くサンドラの価値観に合致しています。 サンドラには、日本の東北地方出身の旦那様がいらっしゃいます。日 系カナダ人コミュニティーについて詳しいのはそのためです。また彼女 自身が移民の両親を持つアジア系カナダ人２世であることから、シニ アの方々が移民先の国で生活を営んでいく際に直面する困難について も理解しています。 当協会は、能力と経験を兼ね備え、やる気に満ちたお二人を理事と してお迎えすることを大変光栄に思います。今後のお二人の理事会と NSHCHS への貢献に大いに期待しています。 ジョンさん、サンドラさん、NSHCHS へようこそ！

日系文化センター･博物館をサポートする他の方法 ボランティアに参加する。 お申込み：centre.nikkeiplace.org/volunteer 博物館ギフトショップとオンラインショップ https://nnmcc. square.site でお買い物をする。 月ぎめ寄付にお申込みいただく。 ミニ・ウェディングの会場として日系センターをご利用いただく。 ご寄付に関する詳細は、日系プレース基金にお問い合わせ下さ い：604-777-2122 又は gifts@nikkeiplace.org。 日系文化センター・博物館 (NNMCC) 受付・ミュージアムショップ 営業時間：火曜～土曜 午前１０～午後５、日曜～月曜 休み。

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隣組

隣組はたくさんのボランティア、スタッフ、寄付者の方々の温かい支援に支えられてい ます。隣組に大変貢献くださった方が最近永眠され、ここに追悼の意を込めてお二人 との思い出を掲載させていただきます。

隣組ボランティア・スポットライト：三廻部静子さん 三廻部さんが隣組でボランティアを始 めたのは 30 年ほど前になります。当 初はサレーの家からパウエル街の隣組 まで来て、得意の料理でたくさんのシ ニア・ランチ・プログラムの参加者を 楽しませてくれました。三廻部さんの 得意料理の中でもちらし寿司が特に人 気で、お持ち帰りできるように大きな 炊飯器二つ分も作ってもらっていまし た。また、ご自宅のグリーンハウスで 栽培した野菜で作った漬物にも皆さん 舌鼓を打って、カナダにイングリッシュ・ キューカンバーが初めて来た時、当地 でいち早く栽培したと話していたのを懐かしく思います。 三廻部さんはボランティア以外に、隣組のアクティビティにも参加していました。バン クーバーだけでなく近郊の町、そして一番思い出深いのはハイダ・グワイでの魚釣り でしょう。でも一番楽しかったのはハリソン・ホット・スプリングスへの温泉旅行かと 思います。 隣組に貢献くださった三廻部さんは３月に９０年の生涯を閉じました。三廻部さん、 ありがとうございました！

追悼 永田深幸さん 元隣組スタッフの永田深幸さんのご逝去を 知り、隣組一同驚いています。９８歳でし た。深幸さんは退職された後も心から隣 組のことを思い、支援を続けてくれていま した。隣組のことを気にかけてくれ、隣組 で起こった出来事などを喜んで聞いてくれ ました。ここに慎んで哀悼の意を表し、ご 冥福をお祈り申し上げます。

隣組へのご寄付ありがとうございました。 （2021 年 3 月 23 日〜 2021 年 4 月 19 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 森篤子、狩集キャロル、ナカタ・シャーリー、シュミッ ト・マサ、土岐洋子、シェブロフ・シズ 寄付金 (Canada Helps) CanadaHelps COVID-19 Community Care Fund 永田深幸 追悼記念 匿名希望 (1) ヤマウチ・ジョー 追悼記念 ナス・ロベルタ 我が母、ニシムラ・トミ 追悼記念 (Canada Helps) ニシムラ・ショーン 物品 金田エレノア、ワタナベ・ユミ、平林忠夫、タケモ ト・イツコ、土岐洋子、峯田正義、ユウ・ジョアン 他有志一同、清水エイプリル他有志一同、ジョール・ ジェシー ＆ ハマニシ・メイ (Queen Elizabeth Lions Club)、匿名希望 (5) ** MONTHLY GIVING ** 寄付金 桑原誠也 ( 花 )、吉田咲子 ( 花 ) 寄付金 (Canada Helps) タカセ・ユミ、ナガタ・タモツ、山下里美 ( 花 )、岩 浅デービッド ( 金 )、鈴木傳 ( 花 )、モリタ・エミコ ( 花 )、 匿名希望 ( 銀 )

隣組シニアライフセミナー 健康で自立した生活を続けるために必要な情報をお届けする講演シリーズ。パソコンやタブレットの「Zoom ズーム」アプリ、または電話でど こからでもご参加いただけます。

セミナー参加情報 日時：第 4 金曜日 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）

5 月 28 日 アドバンス・ケア・プラニング（事前医療ケア計画） 講師：フレイザーヘルス保健当局 人生会議の愛称で日本でも知られつつあるアドバンス・ケア・プラニング。万が一のときに備えて、自分にとって大切なこと、望んでいる医療や ケアなどについて具体化することで、信頼する人に希望を伝えることができます。また、緊急に医療面の決断が必要な時に、医療従事者が BC 州の法律で定められた基準と順番に従い家族などに連絡をします。この機会に該当する人と連絡先のリストを作りましょう。

6 月 25 日 住まいの選択肢：自宅・シニア向け住宅・介護施設 講師：シニアサポート非営利団体 COSCO 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。

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バンクーバー日本語学校並びに日系人会館

お知らせ雑記帳

次世代リーダー・インタビュー : Jennifer Aoki VJLS-JH が Jennifer に初めて連絡したの は、彼女が当団体 VJLS-JH の歴史を体現 した短編ダンス映像 作品プロジェクトに着 手し始めた頃でした。 このプロジェクトの目 標は、私たちの歴史 から「学校の建築とエ ネルギーを身体化し、 妨害、痛み、信頼な ど私たちの歴史の中での経験を具現化する」ことです。Jennifer は、 バンクーバーの芸術界のリーダーであると同時に、日系人の声を代弁 する存在でもあるため、私たちは彼女にインタビューをすることにしま した。彼女の作品や芸術に対する情熱が、インタビューでも伝わって きました。彼女と一緒にお仕事ができるのがとても楽しみです。

簡単な自己紹介をお願いします！ Jennifer Aoki と申します。38 歳です。Monie-Love と Indiana という 愛する猫が 2 匹います。私には 4 人の姪と 2 人の甥がおり、叔母で ある事を誇りに思っています！家族が大好きです。North Vancouver で育ち、自然とのふれあいが深く、自然は私のアイデンティティーだと 言えます。旅が好きです。仕事柄幸運にも、Sweden と Berlin で数か 月間生活したこともあります。現在は、Shadbolt Centre for the Arts でダンスを教える傍ら、Langara で recreation leadership program を 受講しております。SFU でダンスの学士号も取得しています。

現在はどんな活動をされていますか？2021年は何を追求し行動 していますか？ 現在、遺産に基づく研究に加えて、様々な exciting なプロジェクトに 取り組んでいます。#LoveVancouverBubbleProject の一員として活 動できていることを嬉しく思っております。これは、街に愛と喜びを 広めることを目的としたとてもユニークで、社会的距離を保った live installation です。バンクーバー内外で公開される予定です。私は Body Orchestra の共同創設者であり共同芸術責任者でもあります。私 たちは原曲に合わせた、親しみやすく協調的なアンサンブル作品を創 作することを使命とした独立ダンス芸術家集団です。学際的なコラボ レーションが中心であり、ダンサーやミュージシャン、照明デザイナー の方々と有意義な作品を創るために楽しみながら取り組んでおります。 また今夏 8 月に開催される Vines Art Festival で２つのプロジェクト を担当しています。1 つ目のプロジェクトは、Body Orchestra と Itʼ s Not a Box Theatre とのパートナーシップによる Pod-Play です。観客 はイヤホンとスマートフォンを装備して 8 つの（ダンス）単独演技と 組み合わされる live music と text に歩きながらアクセスすることがで きます。2 つ目のプロジェクトはダンサーの Harmanie Rose との共同 プログラムで、異なる身体の同一性を探求するデュエットを創作する ものです。また、ダンス心理学と哲学を統合した非営利のダンスの中 核を担う、Voirelia というダンス会社の共同芸術監督を務めています。 Voirelia では、自然との関係を探求する Imaginarium というプロジェ クトに取り組んでいます。

して公開されました。私は Shadbolt に在籍する芸術家で、今月末に 公開される Viennaʼ s Dysfunktional Message Control の音楽に感化さ れた…awkward というタイトルの新しい単独作品を制作しています。

日系コミュニティとの関係はどのようなものですか？ 日系カナダ人コミュニティの中で、私は芸術活動を通じて想いを代弁 する「代弁者」であると感じています。これはとても刺激的で、とても 自由を感じます。私が日本人のアイデンティティを受け入れ、コミュニ ティーに参加したのは、わずか数年前のことです。今までに感じたこ とのない「コミュニティーの一部なんだ」という気持ちで、とてもわく わくしています。日系カナディアンとしての祖父の姿を見ていましたが、 私にはそれほど多くの文化的繋がりはありませんでした。今ではそれを とても大切にしています。そういうわけで、私自身を「代弁者」と表現 しました。まるで影から出てくるかのような。ずっとそこにあったのに も関わらず、その光に気がついていませんでした。

VJLS-JHに参加したきっかけは何ですか？ VJLS-JH のことは、家族から聞いていました。初めて VJLS-JH に参加し たのは、昨年の夏、Powell Street Festival でパフォーマンスをしたとき でした。Tomoyo Yamada さんの『Emergency』を踊らせていただい たほか、Company 605、Onibana Taiko、Paueru Mashup Dance の コミュニティダンサーたちとも共演しました。会場に足を踏み入れた瞬 間、” ただいま！” というエネルギーを感じたのを覚えています。深い誇 りを感じ、 自分の内なる子どもが “やった！” と思ったことを覚えています。 そして秋には、VJLS-JH が主催する Powell Street Walking Tour に参加 しました。このツアーでは、第二次世界大戦以前のこの地区の知られ ざる歴史や、日系カナダ人の抑留中の力強さを学ぶことができました。 このツアーを担当した人たちはとても親切で、オープンで、とても居心 地が良かったです。とても清々しい気持ちになりました。

自分のリーダーシップをどのように表現しますか？ 私はリーダーシップに対して、相互尊重に根ざした非常に民主的なア プローチをとっています。誰もが自分の声を聞くべきだと考えています。 人々の声を聞くことは情報収集に役立ち、それによりグループのニーズ と私の価値観を合わせていくことが出来るのです。私は、アイデアやビ ジョンを持ち、それを支持するという形でリーダーシップを発揮してい ます。リーダーシップを発揮するときは、興奮したり、緊張したりします。 その過程には恐れや心配もあります。 しかし、勇気を持って前に進み、 声を上げ、誰がそこにいるのか、誰が支援し、関与したいのかを確認 するのです。

将来の目標は？ 将来のプロジェクトや活動に必要な資金を得ることができたらいい ですね。その他には、日本とヨーロッパを旅行することです。また、 Sweden に 1 年間住んで、文化に浸り、Sweden のアーティストとコラ ボレーションして、Dansens Hus での滞在中に新しい作品を作ることも 夢です。基本的には、ダンスと芸術作品を作り続け、世界を旅して文 化を吸収し、人々と出会いたいですね。

様々な事に取り組んでおられ素晴らしいですね！ このインタビューでお伝えするまで、自分がこんなに沢山携わっている と思いませんでした！実は、Shadbolt Centre for the Arts 2021season のプロジェクトにも複数参加しています。Deer Lake Park の Drone Dances は、観客がダンサーと美しい Deer Lake を鳥の目線で 360 度 視聴できる、ダンス映画です。ロックダウン中に制作した私の初めて のダンス映画である、Shifting Spaces は Covid Chronicles の一部と

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本場日本の寿司 対 北米の寿司の本場バンクーバーのもの 比較すると？ 鋭い刺身包丁で俎板上のサーモンやマグロをサッと切る。その刺身の 切り口の身が盛り上がっているか。それともただ切られたまま滑っとし ているか。この違がバンクーバーや北米一般の刺身、ひいてそれを用 いた寿司と本場日本のそれとの決定的違いである。

UBC 界隈で独身生活をしている筆者も日本人の例にもれず寿司が好 きだから懐具合と相談してしばしば近所の普通の寿司やに入る。通の 話に興味はあるが、自身は味覚に合えさえすればこだわらない。

「俺江戸っ子よ。寿司食いねえ」とは東京で育った子供の頃から聞い これは友人のベテラン板前の O さんから聞いた。欧米各都市の寿司 ていたが 10 歳の頃、裕福な伯父に寿司屋に連れてったくれ初めてカ 事情に詳しい専門家の意見で北米の「寿司キャピタル」と言われるバ ウンターに吸って板前さん握ってもらう体験をしたが同い年の従兄弟と 共々「この世こんなに美味しいものがあるのか」と思う程だった。以降 ンクーバーに在住 24 年の日本人としてこだわらずにはいられない。 半世紀以上経ち未だ肉類を含めて寿司が一番の好物の今、北米の「寿 本場日本の寿司と比べて、本場の方が別格とは納得するが、どの程 司キャピタル」でそれなりに旨い寿司が食べられのは 70 サムシングの 度、またどういう風に違うのか。そこで冒頭の違いが出てくる。その核 小さな幸福の一つだ。 心は、” おこり” と呼ばれる、身の引き締まり具合だ。 通の人は舌ざわりで刺身がおこっているのが分かるらしい。 調理の仕方とは直接関係ないが、ある寿司屋（華人系）で聞いたが、 バンクーバーでも最も人気と需要があるサーモンとツナの場合前者は 必ず新鮮で後者は必ず冷凍だそうだ。サーモンの本場だからか。また 店ではコスト面も考慮するから新鮮より冷凍の方が安いこともある。そ うすると旨い刺身が食べたければここでも高級店の方が良いに決まっ ている。

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元日系ボイス編集者 田中 裕介

アジアン・ヘイトと植民地支配の残滓 “Settler Colonialism” という言葉がある。「移住者による植民地主 3月28日、 トロント市庁舎前に数千人が集い、 アジア系人種差別に対する抗議集会が開かれた。 義」という意味の北米での先住民に対する植民地支配の構造と形態で （photo: courtesy of the JCSJ） ある。カナダは、1867 年にドミニオン（自治領）となり、1982 年の「自 由と権利憲章」で独自の憲法を持った後も英国植民地支配の残滓が社 会の諸相にこびりついている。カナダの植民地主義は、英国王党派と その後に続いた英国系移住者たちを上部構造とし、先住民と移民を下 た。これがカナダでのアジアン・ヘイトの始まりだ。これは、1907 年 のバンクーバー暴動につながっている。ちなみに、1898 年にはアジア 部構造としている。1998 年までつづいた寄宿制学校制度がその形態 系帰化人の選挙権は廃止された。 の典型だろう。 1916 年、日系義勇兵 200 余名が欧州戦線に向かった。だが、退役 あるいは、1914 年、WW １勃発とともになされた「戦時措置法」 兵への褒章として与えられるはずの「投票権」は日系兵には与えられ の適用による、ウクライナ系移民８万人を「敵性国人」とみなし登録 なかった。これは高い死傷率を生き残って帰ってきた義勇兵の誇りを させる政策と約 3000 人に対する強制収容と 6 年にわたる強制労働も 植民地主義の一例ではないのか。その裏に英国とドイツの対立があり、 ズタズタにしたに違いない。それから 10 年にわたる日系退役軍人の 執拗な運動が実り、1931 年、BC 州議会での「投票権」が認められた。 道路建設工事の遅滞と労働者不足があった。 さらに、第 2 回目の戦時措置法は日系カナダ人に適用された。WW だが、元義勇兵だけが獲得したこの特権を、日系社会はどう受け止め たであろうか。 ２終了までの日系人に対する強制収容などの政策がそれだ。これが 余談になるが、日系人会長の山崎寧に煽られてコミュニティが一体 青天の霹靂であったことは、ミュリエル・キタガワの「Letters to Wes となって基金を集めて義勇兵を募集し、半年にわたり訓練させた挙句 ( 弟ウェスへ )」に顕著だ。日系人全体をいきなり敵国人とみなした政 に、山崎が泣きながら日系社会への投票権獲得は失敗したことを報告 治家たちが、日本に対する恐怖にかられて豹変したのである。ただ し、解散式まで行ったのである。その 15 年後、投票権は義勇兵には し、ミュリエルはアジアでの戦況に関して十分に認識してはいなかっ た。ジャック・グラナシュタイン他の共著（飯野正子を含む）「Mutual 下知されたが、日系人全体には与えられなかった。複雑な思いがあっ たはずだ。 Hostages( 相互人質 )」によると、カナダ政府は、2000 余名のカナダ 第二次大戦中に目を移すと、日系人の強制収容の裏で、中国系カナ 兵たちが香港陥落後に捕虜として日本軍の手中にあることを把握して いた。加えて、1942 年 2 月末には、シンガポール陥落により 10 万人 ダ人二世は軍役の機会が与えられた。中国語が堪能な中国系二世たち 以上の連合国軍兵士たちが日本軍に降伏した。カナダや英国政府がパ はスパイの訓練を受けてから、日本軍の支配するアジアに送り込まれ極 めて危険な任務に就いた。日系二世たちは終戦間際になってから、通 ニックに陥っていたことは想像に難くない。自国兵の生命の担保＝人 訳官として採用され捕虜となった日本兵に対する尋問の軍務についた。 質が必要だったのだ。 この両者に共通するのは、復員後の落胆であろう。英雄として迎えら 一方、米国内では 1957 年に始まる黒人の反差別運動が意識変革 に発展し公民権運動に転じた。1960 年代を通じて “Black is beautiful” れる白人兵たちの陰で、彼らはぶら下げた勲章が社会的にはほとんど 何の価値もないことを知らされた（奨学金などの軍人恩給はあった）。 運動が広がり、各地で黒人暴動が頻発した。それは先住民、アジア 系を含む多くのエスニック・コミュニティに多大な影響を与えたのであ これは、Jari Osborne の映画 “Unwanted Soldiers” (1999) に詳しい。 ちなみに、フランク・モリツグが憤ったのは、通訳官としてアジアから る。1970 年、ケベック州の独立運動が爆発して、州政府要人の殺害 (October Crisis) に及んでピエール・トルードー首相は第 3 回目の戦時 復員してきた翌日、警官が訪れて外国人登録証を見て、「（写真が古い ので）新しいものに替えろ」と言ったことだという。 措置法を適用した。 アジア系女性に対する差別に関して、一つだけ記して置きたい。 こういった少数民族グループの反乱があって、主流社会が意識変革 1995 年、トロントに新しくできた Princes of Wales シアターのこけら落 を迫られる時代になった。1969 年、トルードー政権は英仏両語を併 記する 2 言語主義 (Official Language Act) を導入した。一言語のみに としの日のことだ。この日は、ミュージカル「ミス・サイゴン」のカナ ダでの初演の日だった。その劇場入り口を遮るようにアジア系の女性 よる政治と文化支配を二言語の枠に広げることによる平等意識の形成 たちがとぐろを巻いて気勢をあげていた。その中に、 日系三世のキョー・ は一国家一民族の国民国家（Nation State）の概念を打ち破ったと言 えるかもしれない。だが、その他の民族共同体はすぐに不満の声を上 マクレア、サンディ・ウサミ、グレン・スミなどの顔が見えた。その日 の TV ニュースで、キョーがインタビューされ「アジア人女性は、古くは げ始めた。 『マダム・バタフライ』から、白人の夫をじっと待ち続け、耐え忍ぶス これを受けて、1971 年、トルードー政権は多文化主義政策を発表 した。これが 1988 年の「Multi-Culturalism Act」に結実していった。 テレオタイプのイメージを押し付けられてきた。この『ミス・サイゴン』 はその偏見を助長するものであることを忘れないでほしい」ときっぱり 僕はちょうどこの一年後に「日系の声」の日本語編集者となり、以後 22 年にわたり、日系コミュニティの問題にどっぷり浸かることになった。 と語っていたのを覚えている。 今般のアジア人差別に反対する運動は、米国で８人の女性が殺害さ それから 30 年。コロナ禍があぶりだしたのは人種差別の壁だ。カ ナダの「多民族共生社会」の看板がこの壁を覆い隠していたのではな れるという痛ましい事件が発端となっているが、アジア系に対する差別 いか。平時には一見些細に見え、実は陰険なかたちで示されていた差 は今始まったことでないことを知ってほしい。 別意識が、堰を切って噴出してきた。“Black Lives Matter”と“Anti-Asian ちなみに、上記の「ミス・サイゴン」はその 10 年後にトロントで再 演された。だが、この時は日系人が声明文一つ出さなかったのは何故 Hate” は終わりなき闘いの始まりのようにもみえる。 なのか。一つ言えることは、「人種差別は人権を犯す行為であり悪であ る。ヤメてくれ」 と言い続けている間は、 レイシストは静かにしているが、 ●アジアン・ヘイト 警戒の手を緩めると必ずどこからか噴出してくるということである。 19 世紀後半、オタワ連邦政府は横断鉄道建設を急ぎ、廉価な中国 系労働者が中国本土から雇われてきたことは何度も書いてきた。横断 鉄道完成とともに中国系労働者の流入を止めるために 1886 年から人 頭税が導入され、BC 州は中国系の雇用を禁止（連邦政府の事業を除く） した。一方で、1887 年、白人労働者たちは、当時帰化市民に与えら れていた選挙権を中国系が行使しようとした時、彼らの住む集落を襲っ *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33回 日本の入管法改正案の問題点 ■入管法の「改悪」

故や病死も繰り返されています。2019 年 6 月には大村入管（長崎県） で長期収容に抗議してハンガーストライキ中だったナイジェリア人男性 4 月 16 日、日本の入管法（出入国管理及び難民認定法）の改正案 が餓死するという痛ましい出来事がありました。また、名古屋入管（愛 の審議が衆議院で始まりました。入管法は、日本人や外国人の出入国、 知県）に収容されていたスリランカ人女性が 2021 年 3 月に死亡しま 外国人の日本での在留、そして難民認定に関する法律です。 したが、この女性は体調を悪化させ、何度も治療や点滴を求めていた 今回の法案では、有効な在留資格がない一方で「帰れない事情」 にもかかわらず、適切な医療が施されなかったことが死亡後に明らか を抱え、日本に在留を希望する外国人を「送還忌避者」として「迅速」 になっています。入管は「調査中」としていますが、死因はいまだ分 に送還することによって問題を「解決」しようとしています。しかし、 からず、彼女の死に関する入管施設側の責任についても明確になって 実際には、問題の「解決」にはならないばかりか、対象になる外国人 いません。 に対して不利益や重大な人権侵害を引き起こす恐れがあります。こうし た外国人の中には、日本人と結婚している、治療が必要な病気である、 ■「監理措置」制度の問題点 帰国すると危害が及ぶために難民申請中である、などの事情を抱えた 人たちも少なくありません。したがって、今回の改正案を「改悪」だと こうした長期収容をめぐる問題や批判に対して、今回の改正案では、 呼ぶ声も多く聞かれます。 収容に代わるものとして「監理措置」制度の新設が盛り込まれています。 これは、親族や弁護士などを「監理人」とすることによって収容施設 ■極めて低い日本の難民認定率と長期収容の問題 の外で生活できるとするものです。しかし、誰が対象となるかの基準 がはっきりせず、また誰が「監理人」となれるかを決めるのは入管側 もともと日本では、難民申請をしている外国人が難民として認定され です。また、収容施設から出ることができても就労は認められず、生 ることは極めて難しく、2019 年の難民認定率は 0.4% でした。これは 活手段が確保できません。監理人は対象となる外国人の生活状況に関 ドイツの 25.9%、米国の 29.6% と比べてもとても低い値です。難民申 する監督や届け出義務を負うなど重い負担が生じるため、多くの外国 請者の中には正規の在留期限が切れた人たちもいますが、そうした人 人にとって監理人を見つけることは困難になる、場合によっては新たに たちの中には難民申請をしているにもかかわらず、入管施設に長期間 「監理人ビジネス」のようなものが生まれるのではないかと懸念され 収容される人たちも多くいます。これは、難民申請者への対応として大 ています。 きな問題です。 さらに、日本の出入国管理局収容施設での長期収容も問題視され ■外国人が住みやすい社会は日本人も住みやすい社会 てきています。収容施設の医療体制が不十分であることゆえの死亡事 入管法の改正案については、対象となるのが外国人であることから、 自分には直接関係ない、と感じている日本人も少なくありません。日 本社会では外国人は制度的に「管理」「監視」の対象として位置付け られてきましたが、同じように人権が尊重される個人であることを社会 の制度として確立していくべきです。そのことは日本で暮らす全ての人 たちにとって人権が尊重される、より住みやすい社会の形成につなが ります。

山本薫子（やまもと・かほるこ） 首都大学東京都市環境学部准教授 （2008 年～）。UBC 社会学部客員 准教授（2018 年 5 月～ 12 月）。専門は都市社 会学、地域社会学。 著書に、『横浜・寿町と外国人－ グローバル化する大都市インナー エリア 』福村出版（2008 年）、 『原 発震災と避難 － 原子力政策の転 換は可能か（シリーズ 被災地から 未来を考える (1)）』有斐閣（2017 年）など。 入管施設に収容されていたスリランカ人女性が 2021 年 3 月に亡くなった事件に 抗議し入管法改正案に反対する人。（2021 年 4 月撮影）

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

自分自身と人生が愛で満たされる方法♡ Hi beautiful goddesses. セルフラブコーチの Natsuko です。 今月号ではセルフラブ＆リレーションシップのアファメーションをシェア したいと思います。 私たちの人生は自分の意識から創られています。 意識が変わることで同じパートナーとも関係が変わり 意識が変わることで全く新しい人生をも創っていくことができます。 その意識にパワフルに働きかけることができるのがアファメーション。 繰り返し口にすることで 潜在レベルの意識に浸透し 人生が変わっていきますので 是非お試しください。 幸せな人生を生きるためには やはりまずは自分と、そして人とのハーモ二アスな関係は何より大切で す。 その辺りが変化していくアファメーションをお届けします。

Affirmation: 私はここへ愛のみであるということを学びにきました。 私は自分がどんなに素晴らしいかということを日々感じています。 私は自分を愛し楽しむことを選びます 神の素晴らしい創造である私は、神に永遠に愛され受け入れられてい るということを理解しています。 私は新しく素晴らしい関係をオープンに受け入れます。 私は愛あるサポーティブな考えを持っていくことで、愛あるサポーティ ブな関係を創造していきます。 私は私の心をオープンにし愛を受け入れます。 私は安全で愛を表現しても大丈夫です。 私は誰とでも良い関係を持つことができます。 私がいくところにはいつも喜びと笑いに満ちています。 私は私の心を感じてあげます。 人々は私を愛し私は人々を愛しています。 私は私の人生とハーモニーを保っています。 私はいつも完璧なパートナーに恵まれています。 私は私自身に対する愛の中で安全です。 人生は私を愛しています。そして私は安全です。 私は私の人生に存在する、そして存在した全ての人を愛の輪で包み込 みます。 私は全ての人たちとお互いに思いやりと尊重を持ったハーモ二アスな 関係を持っています。 私は愛の輪で地球全体を包み込みます。そしてその愛は何倍にもなっ て私に返ってきます。 私の中には無償の愛が存在していて、私はその愛をすべて人々に表現 します。 私の無償の愛は私自分にも向けられています。なぜなら私は無償の愛 を受け取るに値する存在だからです。 私は自分自身を受容し愛しています。

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

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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.

BC 州からのお知らせ COVID-19 高齢者のためのワクチン 予約 高齢者のためのワクチン用コールセンターは 2021 年 3 月 8 日に開きました。ご自身、または配偶者のワクチン 予約をすることができます。またご家族、ご友人に電話 予約を頼むこともできます。電話にて簡単かつ安全に予 約できます。

詳細についての日本語ページ： https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/ translation/jp 日本語ページは随時更新されていますが、最新の情報は 英語のページに先に掲載されます。合わせて英語のペー ジもご覧ください。 https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/info/ response

* コミュニティーコーナーへの投稿は editor.geppo@ gmail.com で受付しております。６月号の投稿締め切り日 は５月 18 日 * です。 スペースの都合上、全ての投稿を掲載できるとは限りませ ん。また、出版日が変更になる場合もございますので予 めご理解願います。

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54 月報 The Bulletin

ジュディ・花沢

JCCA会長からのメッセージ

『げっぽう』読者の皆様 春の陽気をお楽しみのことと存じます。桜がまだきれいに咲いていて、 春の花々が次々と蕾を膨らませています。カラフルな光景が至る所で 私たちを楽しませてくれていますね！ 今月のメッセージでは読者・メンバーの皆さんにお知らせがあります。 去ること 4 月 13 日、私は新型コロナウイルスに感染しました。検査陽 性の結果に驚きましたが、亡くなった友人のメモリアルの企画のため のミーティングに参加したのが 4 月 6 日でした。ミーティングに参加し た 3 名が検査で陽性の結果が出たため私も検査しました。このためメ モリアルは延期とし、今後再度日程が調整される予定です。

私は 4 月 3 日にワクチンの接種をしていたのである程度の免疫はでき ていたのですがワクチンの免疫が完全にできるまでには 14 日間かかる と言われています。 体内でウイルスがワクチンよりも力を強め、私は発熱、味覚の喪失、 疲労を体験しました。タイレノールがあって良かった！これを書いてい る今、ようやく味覚が戻ってきました！

追悼の悲しみとメモリアルの企画に集中が偏ってコロナウイルスに対す 検査が陽性だったことを知った時は恥ずかしく感じて誰にも知らせませ る警戒心が緩んでいたと思います。 んでした。しかし、この道理に外れた当惑感が生じた際に私の経験を 堂々と共有することが重要だと感じさせられました。 今回読者・メンバーの皆さんにお知らせすることにしたのは、この経 験をシェアすることが重要だと思ったからです。

以上、私の新型コロナウイルス感染のストーリーでした。まだ終わって 私の家族全員が検査を行い、幸いにも全員が陰性の結果でした。家族 はいませんが、終わりに近づいています。皆さんが今後も健康・安全 は万が一症状が出る可能性があったため、自主隔離も行いました。こ に過ごされますことをお祈りしています。本当に奇妙な時を生きている なと感じます。どうかお体にはお気をつけてくださいね。 のメッセージを書いている今のところ家族全員が健康な状態です。 私の検査が陽性と分かった後は、健康保険のシステムから接触者の追 跡についての連絡が入りました。追跡を担当している人とは何度か連 絡を取り合い、家族が自己隔離を行っているかの確認が入りました。 私が接触したのは家族がほとんどでした。追跡連絡はとてもしっかりと 行われました。

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編集後記

Kazuho Yamamoto

Kazuho Yamamoto

小学校時代に給食で出てきた三島食品のゆかり ®。バンクーバーの日本食スーパーで も売られていて、時々買ってしまいます。ゆかり ® の他に菜めしがラインアップであるの は知っていたのですが、最近はひろし（広島菜の青菜ごはん用）やうめこ ®（カリカリ梅）、 かおり ®（青じそふりかけ）、あかり ®（ピリ辛たらこ）も登場していました。 三島食品のウェブサイトによると、ゆかりの命名のいわれは古今和歌集の「紫の ひ ともとゆゑに 武蔵野の 草はみながら あはれとぞ見る」から来ているようです。

｢ むらさき草が一本咲いている。と言う ( 縁 ) だけで武蔵野の草花が、皆愛おしく（身 近に）感じてしまう…｢ 縁 ｣ のあるもの、｢ ゆかり ｣ のあるものとして、むらさき草が詠われているところから、 ｢ ゆかり（縁）の色 ｣ は、｢ 紫色 ｣ を言うようになりました。・・・三島食品株式会社では、赤しその名前を考え たとき、商品の色が紫色であることと、皆様との「ご縁」を大切にしたいとの思いから、 「ゆかり」と命名しました。 （三島食品ウェブサイトから抜粋：https://www.mishima.co.jp/study/name/） 数ヶ月前でしょうか、友達が私の名前がふりかけのパッケージに入った画像を送ってきて、 ふりかけ４姉妹メーカーのウェブサイトを知りました。最大３文字の文字制限がありますが、 パッケージの色や中身までカスタマイズできるようになっています。ゆかり ® と縁が合った方 もなかった方もこの機会にぜひ試してみて下さいね。

https://www.mishima.co.jp/sisters/ 「小さな展覧会 : tsumugu」 KAO (a.k.a. SleeplessKao)

「紡ぐ tsumugu」というタイトルで展覧会を催しています。

KAO

オープニングレセプションもないので寂しいなぁと思っていたけれど、展覧会が始まってみると毎日のように人が訪れて くれます。 前回の展覧会で絵を買ってくれた年配の白人男性が ” 家に飾った絵を見て癒されているよ” と言ってくださり、今回の絵もひ とつひとつゆっくりと丁寧に見てくれました。店舗の人数制限は考えようによっては人々がゆっくり楽しめて良いのかもしれないなーなんてポジティ ブに思えます。 自粛の中の「小さな展覧会」は訪れる人達にちょっとしたジョイをもたらしているようで、久々のイベントにお洒落をして会いに来てくれるとこっ ちまでウキウキしてきます。可愛いブティックでの展覧会なので、私も目一杯お洒落をして出勤しています（笑） 93 歳になる日系のご婦人は「若いお友達と久々の外出なの」と本当に嬉しそうです。歩行器 も補聴器もなく、とてもしっかりしていらっしゃる。戦時中の苦労話や女学校時代の話などを 楽しそうに話してくれ感心させられます。戦時中に比べたらコロナで大騒ぎしているのは彼 女にとって大したことではないのかもしれません。 インスタグラムやウェブサイトなど、ネットを通じて初めて会う人たちも多いです。 我らが「雑誌げっぽう」も捨てたものではなく（照笑）前回の編集後期『絵を通じ てドイツの方とつながった話』を読んだ方から、「同じ絵があればサンフランシスコ の友人に送って欲しい」という要望を頂きました。 嬉しい話と共に悲しいニュースも耳に入って来ます。この時期、実際に悲しみ の場所へ行って寄り添うことが困難なのが心許ないです。 る 93 てくれ し 援 応 いつも ミヤさんと る な に 歳

私は世界を変えることはできないけれど、前号の話同様、私の絵を通じ て人々がつながり、少しでも人々がほっこりする時間を持てればいいなと心から 思っています。

「小さな展覧会」ですが、もし部屋に篭っていたら遊びにいらしてください。

Art Exhibition info: www.kaorikasai.com

その 他た くさ れた んの 方々 会い 、ど に来 うも てく あり がと ～

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Honouring our People: Breaking the silence

Edited by Randy Enomoto

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