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Rick Shiomi was born in Toronto, part of the postwar generation that was raised far from the west coast home of the early Japanese Canadian immigrant community. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1970 with a degree in history, then headed west where he received his teaching certificate from Simon Fraser University.

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After a brief stint teaching in Japan and Hong Kong, he found himself back in Vancouver, where he immersed himself in the burgeoning Japanese Canadian community, part of a group of mostly sansei who were starting to become politically active and push back against the silence that had enveloped the community following the wartime internment and dispersal. As the coordinator of the first Powell Street Festival, held to celebrate the Japanese Canadian Centennial in 1977, Shiomi was among those who helped lay the foundation for the community as it exists today.

I remember meeting you the night I was invited to join Kokuho Rose, and I also remember hearing about the internment for the first time sitting in your kitchen not long after that. Little did I know how life-changing those times would be for me, and for you as well. What are your fondest memories of those Vancouver days? My fondest memories are of the all the people in the loose Asian Canadian group that were together at the Powell Street Festival, Tonari Gumi, Kokuho Rose, Inalienable Rice, Katari Taiko and Breakeven (or was it Breakneck?) Productions. Looking back one realizes there were so many remarkable and talented people in that group, like Takeo Yamashiro; the late Jim Wong Chu, Garrick Chu, Tamio Wakayama, and Ken Shikaze; Mayu Takasaki, Linda Uyehara Hoffman, Sky Lee, Paul Yee, and you of course, among so many others.

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Active in the west coast cultural scene, Shiomi helped form Kokuho Rose, an Asian Canadian folk/blues music group, and in 1979 became a founding member of Katari Taiko, Canada’s first taiko group. That same year, as a member of the Powell Street Review, he helped produce Inalienable Rice, a ground-breaking Chinese and Japanese Canadian anthology. I can’t believe it’s been 40 years since the first proAround the same time, Shiomi was introduced to Asian American duction of Yellow Fever, and I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve interviewed you about the play. playwrights David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) and Philip Kan Gotanda. What do you think about when you reflect on those After Gotanda read one of Shiomi’s short stories about a Japanese 40 years? Canadian detective, he suggested that Shiomi submit the story to the I think about what a remarkable journey it has been Asian American Theater Workshop in San Francisco for adaptation to to be part of the Asian Canadian/American arts movethe stage. Following Gotanda’s advice, Shiomi wrote Yellow Fever, ment, particularly in theatre for me. About halfway through I remember David Hwang saying that early which premiered at the Asian American Theater Company in 1982 and on, none of us thought our plays would be studied credited to R.A. Shiomi. The play was produced in New York by the and written about in university papers. And I think Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, garnering rave reviews in the New York of how blessed I’ve been to have been part of three golden eras; in Vancouver in the 1970s, in San FranTimes and New Yorker, and winning numerous awards. cisco and New York in the 1980s and in Minneapolis/ Considered a mainstay of the Asian American playwriting canon, Yel- St. Paul in the 1990s/2000s. low Fever charted a course for Shiomi’s career as a playwright and director. Other important early works include Rosie’s Cafe, Play Ball, There’s some irony, I suppose, that you had to move to the States to produce a play about Vanand Uncle Tadao. couver’s post-war Powell Street neighbourhood. Shiomi eventually settled in Minnesota where he spent twenty years I always had the sense that you felt Canada was as co-founder and artistic director of MU Performing Arts, developing too far away from the action for you and that you needed to head south to fulfil your ambitions. Is it into America’s second largest Asian American theatre company. this accurate, do you think? This month, the Firehall Arts Centre closes out its 2021-2022 reunion At the time it was definitely accurate, especially in theseason with a new production of Yellow Fever, with Hiro Kanagawa atre. When Philip asked me whether I’d thought about turning the detective short story into a play, I said I taking on the role of the Sam Spade-inspired character Sam Shikaze. hadn’t because there was no such thing as Asian Canadian theatre at the time. I took his advice and I talked to Rick Shiomi by email

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ing to it. I of course knew Ken and Naomi Shikaze as friends in the Vancouver group at the time so that’s where the name came from. So Gordon inspired the character but the name came from the Shikazes. Then in an odd twist, I liked the name Kadota for the Captain, even though the character is actually the opposite type of Gordon. In a way, the names and connections to real people matter only to those who know them and the usage was purely theatrical and in no way reflected any of the actual people.

Kokuho Rose Prohibited performing during a marathon weekend at Vancouver Co-op Radio, 1978. L–R: John Endo Greenaway, Sean Gunn, Takeo Yamashiro, Rick Shiomi. Photo by Paul Yee, City of Vancouver Archives 2008-010.1080.

contacted the people at the Asian American Theater Workshop (it was not a company yet) and the rest as they say, is history. And of course, I was simultaneously learning taiko at the San Francisco Taiko Dojo, so everything seemed to fit pretty neatly. What was the inspiration behind Yellow Fever? In the 1970s I was a frustrated prose writer and a baaad poet, so I was truly feeling like the poor relative in the group of artists I hung out with. Though I was one of the editors of Inalienable Rice, none of my writing made it into the publication and none of my writing made it into the special Asian Canadian issue of a west coast publication (forgot the name) around then. That turned out to be fortunate since my writing then was terrible. But to get to the inspiration for the original short story upon which Yellow Fever is based, it was clearly related to my encounter with Gordon Kadota while working on the early Powell Street Festivals. He of course, saved the first festival (and me) with his savvy understanding of how to get things like the festival done in a community that was not really very enthusiastic about the project to begin with. But what struck me is that Gordon reminded me of the TV detective Columbo with his five o’clock shadow, rumpled trench coat and most of all, his very droll sense of humour. Sometimes in a room of people, I felt like I was the only one getting his jokes or sly remarks. And so I thought of creating a detective story with a character like him as the protagonist.

boo Brew that Jim Wong Chu and I brought up from San Francisco). He pulled out one page and said he liked it. Since I was an optimist, I asked him what he liked about that one page and he said he liked the dialogue, which surprised me again. Then after a few comments he asked if I would ever think of turning it into a play. I said I hadn’t but was willing to try. He suggested I submit the story to the company he worked with in San Francisco and a few months later, I did. The theatre took on the project (after some very funny communications) and after two years in which I was mentored by Marc Hayashi and Lane Nishikawa, I had my play Yellow Fever produced by the Asian American Theater Company in March 1982. And that production turned me into a playwright and totally changed my life.

You named one of your characters Kenji Kadota in tribute to Gordon. I did, but the names got reversed for simple theatrical appeal (in my mind anyway). I was originally looking for a name for the detecThere’s a funny story attached to that process. In- tive that sounded like Spade as in spired by Gordon, I wrote a hundred page story that the Humphrey Bogart version of quite surprised me as I usually had difficulty writing Sam Spade. Then I thought of and twenty pages. Not sure what to do with it, I showed liked the name Shikaze, because it to Philip Gotanda and after a few days asked him in my mind it had that similarity to what he thought of it (Philip was visiting Vancouver Spade and had a certain edgy feelalong with David Hwang in a music group called Bam-

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For those of who have never seen the play, can you give us a brief rundown of the plot? Yellow Fever is a detective comedy that has quite a bit of Japanese Canadian social commentary. Sam Shikaze is a detective who works down on Powell Street in the early 1970s when it was considered part of skid row. The Cherry Blossom Queen is kidnapped and Sam takes on the case, and in the process discovers a larger plot by the Sons of The Western Guard, a white supremacist group. Along the way he works with his lawyer buddy Chuck Chan, dines at the café with the owner Rosie Ohara, deals with his nemesis Captain Kenji Kadota and finds romance of sorts with a young reporter, Nancy Wing. And amid all mystery and comedy, the play looks at the deep repercussions that the camps had upon the Japanese Canadians. Did you know you had something when you finished it, did you know it would find the success and iconic status that it did? I had no idea of how successful the play would be. The only thing I knew was that the process of writing the many revisions we made in rehearsals was truly a time of grace for me. I said then that “playwriting could not be this easy, or anyone could be a playwright”. I was right, because I never again had that pure joy, understanding and success as a playwright. Was there ever a suggestion that you relocate the play to an American Japantown in order to appeal to American audiences?

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Not really, though many audience members in San Francisco thought it was located in the Bay Area because so many of the street names are the same. And I think that the Japanese Canadian and American experiences are so similar that audiences could easily A Special Note of Appreciation from The Bulletin Distribution identify with the story and the characters. Matthew Speier has dedicated many years of his life to activism and cultural research. A 1960s Vietnam war protester who subsequently wrote What was it about Yellow Fever, do you think, that his Berkeley master’s thesis on the effects of injustices experienced by struck a chord with people? Japanese Americans during WWII, my dad was later a founding member What Yellow Fever offered was some very painful truths about our past and ourselves wrapped in some of Educators for Nuclear Disarmament in the 80s. He was also a video pihumorous and romantic story telling. And an aspect oneer before video was even really a thing, documenting dance troupes of its appeal I didn’t even think of was that so many all across the country, back in 1974. people love detective stories. And his contribution to this publication you ask? Well, big hugs and a From post-war Toronto to Vancouver’s Powell Street, to San Francisco, and then Saint Paul, Minnesota. A lot of water has flown under the bridge since those early days. What is your proudest achievement, in your mind? I think the top three in no particular order are my play Yellow Fever, my work on the Powell Street Festival and my work at Theater Mu in Minnesota. Each brought a different kind of reward for me personally and as an artist.

collective thank you to my father because, on numerous occasions over two decades, he happily drove me out to pick up Bulletins in Burnaby or drop them off in Richmond & Steveston. His helping spirit and the nice lunches we shared along the way are, for me, fun and thankful moments of togetherness, dearly savoured and remembered! – Michael Tora Speier, April 2022

What’s the best advice you ever received in terms of your career? The advice I got from Marc Hayashi and Lane Nishikawa during the development of Yellow Fever. And turning that around, what advice would you give young people today, especially those who are thinking about a career in the arts? Find your own individual talent, find the right people to advise you in your work and don’t worry about all the social pressures to be successful or earn a lot of money. When you look at the Japanese Canadian and Japanese American communities now, how do you see them, compared to 45 years ago? I feel like the Japanese (and Asian) Canadian theatre community has caught up a lot to the American one. And both communities have evolved considerably in terms of social and political activism, though both face major challenges in terms of ongoing and future development. I remember those early days of Katari Taiko, struggling to find an identity and a sound. You became frustrated and left to find your own path, which only led you to good places. Do you still play taiko? I don’t. My last adventures in taiko were around 2010. Around then I started to reduce my involvement in Mu Daiko, the group I started in Minnesota, and focused solely on my theatre work. Anything you’d like to add? As it happens there’s also a production of Yellow Fever being done this May by Centerstage Theatre in the Seattle/Spokane area.

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Dennis Yuji Enomoto, August 19, 1946 – October 25, 2021 Dennis Yuji Enomoto died on October 25, 2021 in the British Virgin Islands. He was snorkeling on near Cooper Island when he failed to return to the tour group. The following eulogy was read by Dennis’ brother Randy Enomoto at Dennis’ celebration of life.

Remembering Dennis by Randy Enomoto Someone has said that to experience an unexpected death is like walking into a glass door you didn’t know was there. For the last six months, Lynn and I have been treading a path littered with the shards of a life that ended before its time. Last week, I read about a 10-year old girl in Siberia who says that when it is very cold in her town and a person walks down the street, a corridor forms in the mist. She can tell who passed by because the corridor has the shape of that person’s silhouette. Similarly, I believe that in the mists of time we can hold the shape of a person’s life in our minds. This is the act of remembering and why we are gathered here today.

Dennis with piranha

Outwardly, my brother was a very quiet person, hardly what one would My sorrow is that Dennis can no longer reach out call outgoing. into world and create the experiences he savoured. Yet Dennis was constantly going out into the world. He travelled the Did you know that he took Samba lessons so that he Trans-Siberian Railroad, trekked the Inca trail to Machu Picchu, swam could join the Carnivale parade in Rio de Janeiro? with the turtles in the Galagos, fished for piranha on the Amazon, went on safari in Africa, dined in three Michelin-starred restaurants during his two-month exploration of Brazil and subjected himself to 2Gs of force riding a bobsled in Lillehammer.

Even after death, Dennis surprised me. After the locksmith drilled out the lock on his Davie Street apartment and we entered, we discovered he was learning to play the guitar. We are using his music stand to I need to remind you that Dennis emerged out of the oppressive racism hold one of the storyboards tonight. of the 1950s and 60s when the first question strangers would pose was Lynn discovered that Dennis had a ticket for a concert “have you been back to Japan?” and Safeway was still advertising “Jap featuring James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt coming up oranges.” on May 12. And so I will be walking in my brother’s I believe his way of liberating himself from the constraints and restric- footsteps that day. tions of those times was to reach out into the world and discover what it had to offer. During the past decade, he unleashed his appetite for adventure and did more than 30 trips with G Adventures, a company that promotes sustainable tourism and supports local economies. He had already made a deposit on his next trip, which was to Sri Lanka.

Dennis loved folk music and was a lifetime member of the Vancouver Fold Music Festival. When he enjoyed an artist, he would explore their work in depth. Who else would have 20 vinyl albums of Judy Collins or all of Bob Dylan? One of his favourite musicians was James Taylor. And here I quote: I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought I’d seen you again So the impact of the loss is to realize over and over again that I will never see you again. Learning samba in Rio De Janeiro

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update Update from Powell Street Festival Society Hello Powell Street Festival Friends! We have lots to share as we gear up for a busy May! First two in-person events: Join us May 21 at 7:30pm (doors 7pm) for Drumming up Spirit, a special collaborative concert with Tzo’kam and Sawagi Taiko at the ANNEX, 823 Seymour Street. Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $15-30. powellstreetfestival.com/drumming-up-spirit_2022 Then, on Sunday, May 29, join us at 2:00pm at the Cinematheque for Road Work: Street Photography from the 70s and 80s, a slideshow and artist talk based on Greg Soone’s new book. Tickets are available on a sliding scale for $10-25, and books will be available for purchase. See our website for details: powellstreetfestival.com/greg-soone-road-work Next, an online program: We will be collaborating with Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness Fund to bring you Online Radio Taiso Zoom Lessons in Japanese & English. Every Wednesday & Friday from 3 to 3:30pm PST May 4 until July 27. Registration required; please contact samantha@powellstreetfestival.com Our Annual General Meeting will take place on May 24 at 6pm – watch for more information on our website. The Annual Powell Street Festival Lottery is back! Tickets are now on sale from our website and individual vendors. Check out powellstreetfestival.com/lottery for a list of exciting prizes. May also marks the beginning of the first Japanese Canadian Youth Cohort! We are excited to welcome Anaïs Peterson, Rani Kobayashi, and Tamiko Chase Kavanagh who will be joining us for this inaugural program over the coming months. Finally, PSFS is hiring summer Festival Crew members for a seven-week, temporary position, starting as early as June 13. Applications due May 31, please see our online job posting for more details: powellstreetfestival.com/get-involved/jobs.

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ART KOMORI:

AUTODIDACT + DOTING GRANDFATHER by Jane Komori Hayao (Art) Komori: Grandfather. Autodidact. Carpenter. Gardener. Born June 7, 1924, in Vancouver; died December 12, 2021, in Kamloops, BC of kidney failure; aged 97. Hayao (Art) Komori was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on June 7, 1924 to Matsunosuke and Haru Komori (née Ikeda), the sixth of twelve children. Art spent the first years of his childhood in Eburne (now Richmond) British Columbia, where his father and older brothers built and operated a small fleet of fishing boats. In December 1930, Art and his younger brother Hiromu (Ken) Komori traveled with their parents to Japan. Art often recalled the difficulty of the Pacific crossing. A formidable storm poured water into the family’s cabin, with waves crashing across the deck for days. Art also recalled the peacefulness of the final leg of the journey, when dolphins played in the ship’s surf and he snuck up to the main deck to observe a stunning blanket of stars over the still water. Art and Hiromu attended school in Japan for nearly seven years. Art recalled fondly his first bicycle and the plentiful fish he would catch in the evenings. When Art was in fifth grade, his father instructed him to attend high school and then university to become a bōzu「坊主」, or Buddhist priest. While he maintained a strong interest in Buddhist, and particularly Zen, philosophy throughout his life, Art was a rebellious and heterodox thinker, and he stubbornly refused to enter the priesthood. He told me, “I didn’t want to be a priest! I hate that kind of stuff!” (He did not mince words.) Art was instead fascinated by telegraphs and radios, and wanted to study science and mathematics to become an engineer. He began cutting class, spending his days picking berries, fishing, and riding his bicycle. When his report card was sent to his family in Eburne, they were infuriated by his low scores–the worst in his class–and they sent for him and Hiromu in 1937. By flunking out, Art escaped being drafted into the Japanese Imperial Army, where all of his school friends perished. Upon returning to Eburne, he continued to attend school, but resisted studying English. He smuggled Japanese books into his classroom, reading them at his desk and frequently falling asleep. (Thanks are due here to Lucy and Leslie Komori, who conducted an interview with Art in September of this year, in which many of these details were recorded. I am grateful for them.)

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In 1942, the Komori family, along with more than 21,000 other Japanese Canadians, were forcefully removed from the 100 mile “evacuation zone” along the coast of British Columbia and incarcerated until 1945. Art’s family lost their home in Eburne, their fishing boats, and everything else they owned, save what they could carry with them to the incarceration camp at Taylor Lake in BC’s Cariboo Region. In the freezing March of 1942, they lived alongside dozens of other Japanese Canadian families in tents until they could construct their own houses. They struggled with heavy, mosquito-ridden summers and long winters, during which they worked contracts to fell Jack pine. While incarcerated, Art’s father, Matsunosuke, died—of a broken heart, Art sometimes said. Art quarreled with his mother and older brothers, and he moved with Hiromu to Ontario when the war was nearing its conclusion. In Ontario, Art worked a series of jobs; at a pig farm, where he said that they treated Japanese Canadian workers “worse than monkeys,” at a laundry, where the soap irritated his sinuses, and at a body shop, where his supervisor called him a “Jap.” After a short spell of homelessness in Hamilton, where he was turned away from every hotel and hostel, he worked as a pot washer in the McMaster University kitchen, and finally as a short order cook in bustling restaurants around Toronto’s glamorous Maple Leaf Gardens. Even during my most recent visits with him, he spoke fiercely of the mistreatment of Japanese Canadian workers during and after the war. At the same time, he fondly remembered his days as a short order cook and sometimes even reproduced dishes from them, which were always bizarre but dutifully consumed by his family members. When I

By his eighties, he was missing the tips of several fingers, the casualties of many carpentry projects. (I have a vivid memory of the time that he sliced off part of his right thumb, at the second joint, when I was around seven years old. He was remarkably stoic about it, calmly instructing me to “Go get Grandma” while he held his bloody hand in his shirt.) In my earliest memories, Art was happy and always busy in his shop and garden, or at his desk, where he studied Japanese etymology, philosophy, and religion late into the night. He kept meticulous notes In the early 1950s, Art returned to British Columbia and a daily journal. I also remember him as a doting and tender and settled in Kamloops, where he continued to work grandfather. a variety of jobs. In 1954, he met my grandmother, Kanako (Connie) Koyanagi, while working as the He took me and Rachel on tractor rides and provided us with an endless photographer for a Japanese Canadian bowling supply of candies and okashi, which he stashed in secret cupboards tournament that Connie had traveled from Kelowna and drawers throughout the house, workshop, and garden. (As we to participate in. Later that year, they met again at a begin to sift through his possessions now, we have uncovered rice new year’s dance at the Kelowna Buddhist Church, crackers, maple syrup, cookies, dried fish, Hibiki whiskey, and other, and they courted throughout the following year. sometimes very old treats, in all kinds of strange places.) Even recently Connie’s family discouraged her from taking up with Art loved to tell me how, when I was a toddler, he would make sure that such an eccentric man, but on December 17, 1955, I ate king crab and gohan, my favourite meal, whenever I requested it. they married. Art was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996. In response to this traveled with Art and Connie to Toronto for Hiromu’s funeral in 2017, Art was ecstatic when we took a taxi ride (actually, it was an Uber, but this was very difficult to explain) around the city. He pointed out with absolute clarity all his old haunts and was thoroughly impressed by the skyscrapers that now towered over them.

Connie and Art lived and worked in their photography studio in North Kamloops for several years. Art took the pictures and Connie operated the dark room. When she became pregnant with their first child, Teresa, in 1957, they moved onto an acre lot in Westsyde, where Connie continues to live today. Art said that a fire that destroyed the studio was the end of the photography business, while Connie says that there was no fire, but that they quit because the dark room chemicals gave her terrible rashes. In any case, Art became a journeyman carpenter and a faithful carpenters’ union member, but he still took many, many film photographs into his eighties. At my childhood dance recitals, Art would flout the rule against picture taking, marching right up to the edge of the stage, blocking the view of the audience, and photographing the numbers I appeared in. Still today, pictures of my sister, Rachel, and me as children, comically posed with garden vegetables and in Art’s rock garden, at school events, and on birthdays cover the walls of my grandparents’ house.

revelation of his mortality, he built a sprawling rock garden in his half-acre front yard. He once described to me how the mind-altering effects of chemotherapy launched him into the strangest of dreams, which, along with his readings in Zen philosophy, inspired many of his arrangements in the rock garden. He survived cancer, and his enormous rock sculptures made for a wonderful playground for me, my sister, and our friends.

In 1998, Art and Connie were featured on the Canadian television show Weird Homes. Art presented his garden with a radiant humor and pride. There was no embarrassment in his home being “weird”: Art said straight to the camera, and to anyone else who would listen, that he did not care what other people thought of him. The garden, with some rocks piled eighteen feet high, still stands as an outlandish landmark along Westsyde Road.

In the final years of his life, I took a more active interest in Art’s pastimes. I spent the summers of 2015 and 2017 assisting him and Connie in their massive garden, raising tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic, corn, onions, squash, zucchini, cabbage, lettuce, carrots, beets, potatoes, berries, and fruit trees, as well as daikon, gobo, shiso, and edamame. I had also been working on farms in the Vancouver area, and Art and I clashed over soil management, composting methods, and what qualifies as When their four children (Teresa, Steven, my father “organic” cultivation (like all of Art’s beliefs, what was and was not Don, and Wesley) were teenagers, Art and Connie considered organic to him was thoroughly idiosyncratic). However purchased ten acres of farm land near their home I presented my opinions, he remained unyielding in his techniques. and raised a variety of market crops. Art ran the farm The results–a bounty of produce that far exceeded the consumption with his boys and his forbidding German shepherds. capacity of our family, friends, and neighbors–could not be argued Art recalled those days with pride, when the house with. During those summers, we built his final picnic table together, and was busy with customers and he would order pizza tinkered with birdhouses and other projects. every night to the farm. He was excited to show me how he thought about the environment and In 1983, Steven and Wesley died in an ice fishing life through his garden and woodworking. He was so enthusiastic that accident, and Art quit farming shortly after. His grief in the summer of 2015 he initiated a ritual of sharing a can of Growers was overwhelming, and other family members recall apple cider–alcoholic and sickly sweet–at the end of every work day. this period of his life as one defined by bitterness, As the summer wore on, he began to break out the cider at lunch, too. anger, and regret. Still, he continued to work as a One hot morning in August, he suggested we have a cider at 10:30 carpenter, constructing and selling fishing boats, am. I hesitated, but he was so gleeful and earnest that I couldn’t turn picnic tables, benches, and birdhouses on the side.

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that he thought I would find interesting. The thing I miss most about him now is the delight with which he wrote out kanji for me to test my knowledge, and When I revived my piecemeal study of Japanese in 2019, we began the gentleness with which he guided me through the exchanging letters regularly. He was generous about my writing and parts that were too challenging. drafted his responses in large characters so that they would be easy for me to decipher.「ジェーン漢字すごいね！」, “Jane, your kanji is good, eh!” Art and I often had lively conversations. Fiercely he wrote, even when this was entirely untrue. But he also frustrated me auto-didactic and intensely curious about the world, sometimes. When I traveled home last summer and presented him with Art was always reading and he always had questions my painstakingly completed kanji workbooks, he said, “This looks like for me. This past summer, his questions included: Do torture! How can you be bothered with this?” I agreed, but irritated, you think smartphones will take over our brains? I asked how else I was supposed to learn. He laughed, and said he What’s wrong with the United States? What will “always just knew” all of the kanji, and that it was easy if you looked we do about climate change and the impending apocalypse? carefully and appreciated the beauty of the characters. him down. He was not a strong drinker, however. He had a terrible hangover that afternoon, and then vowed never to drink cider again.

Art was delighted that I was pursuing a PhD (he wore the “UCSC Grandpa” ballcap that I gave him all the time), but he loved to poke fun at institutionalized education. When I finished my undergraduate degree and he saw my parchment at the convocation, he joked, “What good is this thing? I can’t even wipe my ass with it!” When I showed him the sections of my dissertation in which he makes appearances, he was amused: “What the hell kind of thing are you writing, anyways?” But he indulged my interest in his life and thoughts, and patiently helped me with my homework this past summer while I was in Kamloops and completing a Japanese language intensive course. He helped me listen to and transcribe Japanese Canadian oral history recordings I was interested in, read Japanese texts that were too difficult for me out loud so that I could understand them, and saved magazines and newspapers

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In some of our last conversations, he shared his outrage about the Canadian residential school system and he railed against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. He was at once delighted by and dismissive of the BC government’s recent announcement that it would be providing redress monies to survivors of Japanese Canadian incarceration. He looked forward, with a kind of mischievous attitude, to receiving his cheque, but he spoke with fresh anger about everything Japanese Canadians had lost, which redress could never recompense them for. Ever clear-eyed about injustice, he stubbornly retained an excitement for the future, and perhaps even an optimism about the possibility of a different world. Since Art’s death, Connie has said a few times that Art is fishing in heaven with Steve and Wes. I don’t know what Art thought would happen to him after death, but my feeling is that he did not believe in heaven. He spoke sometimes about reincarnation. When other family members died–and he was the longest living of his siblings, so he saw many family deaths– he usually said, simply, “Once there’s a beginning, there’s an ending.” It is tempting, however, to imagine him on some other plane, doing the things that made him happy: ballroom dancing, producing literal tonnes of vegetables, eating seafood with his family, reading and writing in Japanese, whizzing around Costco on a motorized cart and filling it with snacks, watching sumo, baseball, and serial dramas from his massage chair, taking pictures, building tables and rock gardens, and of course, fishing. Wherever his soul might be, our plan is to scatter his ashes in his garden. I think that Art would be satisfied with becoming part of the soil, with being amongst the garlic he planted when it comes up next spring. Jane Komori is one of Art’s two granddaughters.

IN MEMORY OF TATSUO KAGE (KAGE-SAN) by Kage Family, GVJCCA, Carmel Tanaka Koden and Flowers The Kage family will be accepting Koden and using it to support the archiving of Kage-san’s life work in collaboration with cultural and academic institutions. Please contact kagetatsuo@outlook.com with inquiries or with e-transfers. Flowers are gratefully declined while the archiving of Kage-san’s collection is underway. A Little-Known Side to Kage-san Kage-san left behind a collection of Kirie, or “cut-picture”, artworks that he made in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Here is a beautiful rendition of deer on a green background.

Tatsuo Kage passed away on January 26, 2022 at the age of 86. Born in Japan, he survived WWII as a child, after being sent to a rural farming village to escape the threats of bombing in Tokyo. He excelled in his scholastic pursuits, attended Tokyo University, and received a scholarship to study abroad in Germany where he was married. Upon returning to Tokyo, in the 1960s and 70s Kage-san worked as a Professor of Political Science and European History at Meiji Gakuin University. Kage-san emigrated to Canada in 1975 with his family of six to start a new life in Vancouver. Over a period of four decades, he continued his research as a scholar and historian with a relentless pursuit for the truth. Appointed as a bilingual coordinator for the province of BC, he assisted with the implementation of the Japanese Canadian Redress compensation for those interned and or exiled during WWII. His experiences led him to publish two books, “Uprooted Again” and “Migration, Displacement, and Redress: A Japanese Canadian Perspective”.

Community Memorial Event A community memorial for Kage-san is scheduled for Fall 2022. More details will be shared with the community in a future Geppo-Bulletin issue closer to the date.

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Katsumi Kubo – In Memory of Mr. Tatsuo Kage Mr. Tastuo Kage, an honorable member of Ohfu-kai, passed away on January 26th 2022 at the age of eighty-six. During the last few years of his life, he fought a slow decline in his health condition. I would like to For decades, Kage-san assisted and advocated for express my deepest condolences. numerous Japanese immigrants while volunteering Mr. Kage was widely known as a historian and human rights activist. his time and expertise to the community as a human Ever since he emigrated to Canada in 1975, he made an immense rights activist and writer. Not only is he missed by contribution to the Japanese Canadian community through a variety of his family, but the greater society has also lost a activities to support new immigrants by providing meaningful assistance. courageous warrior for truth and social justice. At the time of Mr. Kage’s arrival in Vancouver as an immigrant himself, post-war Japanese immigrants were starting to come together as the Invitation for Memories of Kage-San Kage-san touched the lives of thousands through his Nikkei community, leading to important events such as the formation of advocacy and work in Human Rights. If you have a Tonari Gumi in 1975 and other activities celebrating Japanese people memory or image to share we invite you to do so to in Canada. the Bulletin, or continue to publish your thoughts and memories on www.korucremation.com/obituaries/ tatsuo-kage and by direct email to kagetatsuo@ outlook.com.

In 1977, the Japanese Canadian 100th Anniversary Festival was held in commemoration of Mr. Manzo Nagano, the first Japanese in Canada who arrived in 1877. The Japanese Canadian Redress Movement began culminating in the Redress Settlement achieved with the then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney ten years later in 1988. continued on page 25

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GVJCCA CANADA SUMMER JOBS POSITIONS Call for Summer Student Employment Applications THE GVJCCA FOR 2022 IS SEEKING DYNAMIC CANADA SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM APPLICANTS (2) The Administrative Assistant and Community Online History Assistant requirements as per pending Canada Summer Job Program 2022 are: • be between 15 and 30 years of age at beginning of employment • is a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for the duration of the employment • have a valid Social Insurance Number at the start of employment and be legally entitled to in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations • Food Safe Certificate helpful but not essential for 2022 • general knowledge of Japanese Canadian history will be helpful • International Students are not eligible participants. International Students include anyone who is temporarily in Canada for studies and who is not a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person who has been granted refugee status in Canada. Youth awaiting a refugee status ruling as well as those who hold a temporary visitor visa, youth visa or work visa are ineligible • the employment period will be 10-12 weeks upon final approval of Canada Summer Youth Program 2022. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT BRIEF ON TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Work with GVJCCA Board members and support staff in the organizing and fundraising activities of the non-profit organization towards a successful Powell Street Festival planned for July 30-31, 2022. This would involve in the planning and requesting of donations; collection of donations; and coordination of volunteer participants of the GVJCCA at the Powell Street Festival 2022. Previously the GVJCCA Salmon BBQ/Musubi sales were key to its fundraising efforts. This year creativity and adaptability will be essential for this year’s fundraising plans to remain compliant to the BC Health regulations during this Covid-19 period. An additional plan of participation at the Surrey Fusion Festival will also enhance creativity and communication of Japanese Canadian heritage. There will be a need to bring some new creative perspectives for our continuing Intergenerational Project and ability to update information for future planned activities Post Covid. Detail work ability to do historical archival material research in attaining information for several GVJCCA Projects. COMMUNITY ONLINE HISTORY ASSISTANT BRIEF ON TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1) Review with GVJCCA and knowledge keepers of available online resources. 2) Identification of areas that are in need of a digital update. 3) Collection of information from text sources and community knowledge keepers. 4) Updating online resources with the help of the community. The Community Online History Assistant will help the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens Association (GVJCCA) with creating and implementing a plan to make Japanese Canadian history available and accessible on publicly accessible online resources. Project will build connections between Japanese Canadians and like minded community members to research the absent representation of Japanese Canadian history online and conclude with a series of workshops to fill in these identified gaps of online information. The hired assistant will help research and consult with community members at all stages of this process. The first step is to gather knowledge keepers (seniors, researchers, historians, printed resources) in the community and identify information gaps. Some of the needed information has recently been made apparent to the GVJCCA when it was brought to our attention that information surrounding the WWII Internment of Japanese Canadians was limited. This can be contrasted to the comprehensive available information on the American WWII internment camp Manzanar and which is concerning because of the important role Tashme played in the course of the forced uprooting of Japanese Canadians and Canadian history. The assistant will be expected to interact with members of the community in a safe but close manner. The assistant will gain valuable community knowledge that is essential to the success of this project. This knowledge will give the assistant insight into a part of Canadian history that is frequently overlooked, hence the importance of this project regarding the accessibility of online resources for learning. The assistant will be expected to help the GVJCCA host a meeting and to introduce community members to online digital archives and the online publication process. These edit-a-thons can take place in person or online with the aid of Zoom or another screen-sharing platform. Community members, along with the hired assistant, will deepen their knowledge of Japanese Canadian history and they will be able to take their new skills and continue sharing knowledge online for many years to come. The wider effect of this project is of course to share the history of an ethnic group in British Columbia from immigration to internment to franchise and up to the present day and by including community members we can widen the impact of this project. Community members who become engaged with this information drive can go on to continue improving accessible online resources Please submit cover and resume though GVJCCA@gmail.com or romini54@gmail.com

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CANADA MUST NOT REPEAT RACIST HISTORY WITH RUSSIAN CANADIANS by Art Miki

Today, as I watch the Russian invasion of Ukraine on television, I think back to the experiences of my family and the Japanese community and wonder how Russia’s aggression will impact upon Canadians of Russian descent. There is overwhelming support for Ukraine from the Canadian government and by Canadians in general. Will this translate into indiscriminate actions towards Russian Canadians as some people will blame them for the actions of their ancestral country?

My parents and grandparents were among the 22,000 Japanese Canadians who were forcibly removed from their homes and interned because of their race. I was five years old when our family was placed on a sugar beet farm near Ste. Agathe, Manitoba to fill the labour shortage because of the war. Why did this happen? Canada had declared war on Japan on December 7, 1942 shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As a result, all Japanese living along the coast of British Columbia were labelled ‘enemy aliens’ and became victims of racist actions perpetrated under the War Measures Act by the Canadian government. There are differences in the present scenario from the The government declared that depriving the Japanese of their basic situation with the Japanese Canadians. In 1942, the Japanese in British Columbia did not have the right rights was justified because they posed a threat to national security. to vote and was not considered a citizen. Secondly, The government documents found in the Archives became accessible the Japanese became easy targets because of their to the public after the restrictions on censored files were lifted. These visibility amongst the dominant white society. On the documents confirmed that Japanese did not pose a threat to national other hand, Russian Canadians will have the protection security. Both the RCMP and the Canadian military recommended that of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to maintain their removal of Japanese from the West Coast was unnecessary. However, basic rights from any government actions towards them. the British Columbia politicians, motivated by racism and economy, Also, Russian Canadians look more like the majority of mainly because of the success of the Japanese in the fishing and farming Canadians, and it would be difficult for Canadians to industries, lobbied the Canadian government for their removal from differentiate who is Russian and who is not. British Columbia. The war became a legitimate excuse. No doubt, there will be acts of racism and harassment After the war ended in 1945, the government’s policy to “repatriate directed towards innocent Russian Canadians Japanese to Japan” became an issue with Canadian civil rights because they become easy targets and scapegoats organizations because the majority of Japanese were Canadian born for what Russia is doing to Ukraine. For example, or naturalized Canadians. In 1947, then-Prime Minister Mackenzie King Chinese Canadians became victims of racism because called off the deportation orders. But by that time, some 4,000 Japanese, of the perceived origin of the COVID-19. As a result, half of them born in Canada, had already been sent to Japan. The anyone who looked Asian became targets for verbal Japanese who remained in Canada had to move east of the Rockies abuse and other violence. and were not allowed to return to British Columbia until 1949, four years It is in times of crisis that the freedoms we take for after the war ended. granted and cherish can quickly be eradicated by As Japanese moved into other provinces they faced resentment, actions of those who want to blame and expound discrimination and racist attacks. Initially, Calgary and Winnipeg would hatred towards people because of their ethnic not allow Japanese to live in the city. By 1948 Japanese were permitted association. Many Russian Canadians are condemning to live in Winnipeg but faced resistance and hostility. Some restaurants the actions of Putin and expressing their loyalty refused to serve them. They had difficulty finding accommodations to Canada but unfortunately not all Canadians will and employment, were harassed by Hong Kong veterans and looked appreciate this. There likely will be attacks upon upon suspiciously by others who had never encountered a Japanese Russian Canadian institutions and individuals because person. In time, as the Japanese became known for their hard work it becomes a “blame game”. Unlike for the Japanese and perseverance, Manitobans finally accepted them as people. It is Canadians, today, we have the Charter of Rights and interesting to note that it was Jewish and German companies that hired Freedoms that will give some protection against most of the Japanese workers. Perhaps they had empathy for the plight severe violations and interventions but this is no of the Japanese. solace for the victims of racism. This article appeared on CBC’s First Person stories on the CBC’s website cbc.ca Art Miki is the former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians

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HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT SCHEDULED FOR MAY 21 , 2022 Our community has followed the progress during the pandemic to hear our essential parameters of a set of legacy initiatives built over two years: antiracism; education; monument; seniors health & wellness; heritage; community & culture. We are very proud of the initial work that Nikkei Seniors executed in the first Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness Fund which wrapped in March 2022. The time has come. For our elders past and present, we are humbled to share this important news. The BC provincial government will be making an important historic announcement with the Japanese Canadian community on May 21, 2022. The announcement is in collaboration with local BC Japanese Canadian communities and the National Association of Japanese Canadians. You are invited to attend via live stream and witness the announcement at 11am Pacific Time. THE FOLLOWING LINKS WILL GO LIVE AT THAT TIME

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VIEWING PARTIES HELD IN BC For those who want to witness this historic event in a warm environment and share the experience with others, there are a number of viewing parties being held in BC. Victoria Nikkei Cultural Society hosting at UVIC Contact Tsugio Kurushima tsugkurushima@gmail.com Central Vancouver Island Japanese Canadian Cultural Society hosting in Nanaimo Contact Brian Sugiyama bksugi@shaw.ca Tashme Historical Society hosting in Hope Contact Ryan Ellan tashmemuseum@gmail.com Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre hosting in New Denver Contact Mayor Leonard Casley or Kate James. community@newdenver.ca Tonari Gumi hosting in Vancouver at Tonari Gumi Contact Keiko Funahashi ed@tonarigumi.ca or the socialclub@tonarigumi.ca Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society hosting at Nikkei Home (private) and New Sakura-so (private) in Burnaby Contact Jay Haraga jharaga@nikkeishc.com (private viewing) NNMCC and GVJCCA hosting at NNMCC in Burnaby Contact Karah Goshinmon kgoshinmon@nikkeiplace.org and Cary Sakiyama 77sakman@gmail.com Vancouver Japanese Language School hosting in Vancouver Contact Darius Maze executivedirector@vjls-jh.com Accompanying this announcement will be a joint press release from the BC Government and the NAJC. That will be followed by more details in the coming weeks and months. Thank you all for your community spirit bringing us to this historic moment in time.

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The Honourable The HonourableJohn John Horgan Horgan Premier ofofBritish Premier BritishColumbia Columbia and and

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Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Classes The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA), Tonari Gumi (TG), and the Vancouver Japanese Language School-Japanese Hall (VJLS-JH) would like to warmly welcome Michael Tora Speier to the Heritage Cooking Classes team. Michael brings to this project over a decade of professional catering experience as the founding director of Open Sesame catering services and links to community work including with the Powell Street Festival Society. As the coordinator for these classes Michael will work with the GVJCCA, TG and VJLS-JH to bring these exciting heritage cooking classes to the community! Come and join your Vancouver-based Japanese Canadian organizations in exploring our culinary heritage. Events will be held twice a month, some during the evenings and some during the weekends.

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GREATER VANCOUVER JAPANESE CANADIAN CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATION (GVJCCA) COMMENDS BC’S ANTI-RACISM DATA LEGISLATION INTRODUCED MAY 2, 2022 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, May 2, 2022 The GVJCCA was one of over 70 BC community groups who were engaged in a provincial consultation project from November, 2021 through January, 2022 on how demographic data on racialized and marginalized communities should be gathered, kept, and used, to eliminate systemic discrimination and inequalities. For Indigenous, racialized and marginalized communities including Japanese Canadians - being the subject of race- based data gathering has historically been a profoundly dehumanizing, unjust experience. With an open heart and while seeing hope for good change in the new Anti-Racism Data Legislation, the GVJCCA also applauds its codevelopment with Indigenous Peoples. The Anti-Racism Data Legislation will enact law so that evidence is available to address inequities, correct service delivery failures, and protect groups from the harm of systemic racism. The GVJCCA appreciates the opportunity to participate in the community engagement leading to the drafting of this legislation. We stand in solidarity with the Indigenous, Metis, Black, fellow communities of colour, and allies. Together, and with government, we can work with the Anti-Racism Data Act to lift unjust barriers and eliminate systemic racism. About the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA) The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA) is a non-profit organization that builds communities and advocates for social justice, primarily for people in Canada of Japanese heritage and their families. Our human rights work has included outreaching to other communities about social justice concerns and offering human rights and anti-racism education. The GVJCCA is the publisher of The Bulletin/ Geppo, a journal of Japanese Canadian community, history and culture. 604.522.7777 gvjcca@gmail.com

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Having conducted hundreds of interviews since taking on the editor’s role in 1993, I am always amazed at the fascinating people who make up our small-but-mighty community. From Order of Canada recipients to small business owners to community leaders to myriad artists in a wide range of disciplines, I am invariably left both humbled and inspired by the experience. At the same time, what never fails to astound me are the number of unsung heroes within our community, those who toil away with little or no recognition. We all know them – mothers, fathers, grandparents, coaches, friends – people who give of themselves selflessly day after day with humility and grace. This month, we hear from the loved ones of a few of those unsung heroes who passed away recently, their words carrying much weight and love. I thank them for sharing their memories with us so generously. On April 27, barely a week after my 63rd birthday, Amy and I were gifted with our first grandchild, a little girl named Keiko, kanji still-to-bedetermined. After two years + of the pandemic, the little beauty brings a ray of hope into our lives, like the sun bursting out from behind the clouds after a storm. They say being a grandparent is the best thing in the world and so far this has proven true. And so, as spring turns slowly to summer, I dedicate this issue to the loved ones we have lost over the past few years. At the same time, we welcome the young ones who offer a sense of renewal. Happy Asian Heritage Month.

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May is here and the transition begins! I am aware that I can sometimes be tone deaf, provocative and polarizing. The tone deaf part is a work in progress (apologies in advance – I am not the sharpest tool in the shed), I don’t usually mind being provocative (it’s good to think) but the polarizing thing has me confused. It seems like no matter what anyone says nowadays, some people will take offense. I think what’s missing these days is giving someone “the benefit of the doubt”. Especially if it’s someone you know, you care about, you love, someone who loves you. Societal norms are constantly changing, as are we, and we’re all at different places in our journey. Sadly, there still exists an inequity of race, social status and gender. Because of those inequities, innocent comments will be heard differently. This is a great moment in time for us to learn. For me,

if it’s someone I know, I choose to assume that it came from a place of love rather than assume that it came from a place of hate. This is my message, I expect it will be seen by some as tone deaf, some as provocative and some as polarizing. I am aware that as a Japanese Canadian man living in Vancouver, I enjoy a certain privilege. Thank you for giving me “the benefit of the doubt”. From all accounts, the GVJCCA Super Keirokai on April 3 was a Super Success! THANKS to the many volunteers, the GVJCCA Board of Directors, the facilitators of the story sharing circles, the guest speakers, our fantastic entertainment, NNMCC staff and most of all, the elders who made the effort to come and celebrate with us. Presiding an event like this is a privilege unlike anything else I do. To look out and see the eyes of experience and feel the hearts moving towards hope are things I will remember for the rest of my life. Even writing this now gives me a little tingle in my heart! We ended April strongly with our first event of the Japanese Canadian Survivors’ Social Club (GVJCCA in partnership with Tonari Gumi and Steveston Community Society), a lunch and chat held April 30 at Tonari continued on page 20

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Gumi. It was a truly beautiful way to kick off the Social Club and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the stories that were told. If you are inclined and are able, the next gathering will be a picnic at Spanish Banks on June 19, which is Father’s Day. Please contact Yuko at socialclub@tonarigumi.ca or call 604.687.2172 ext. 105 May brings us a peek into the future. More leaves, more birds, more flowers, more time outdoors and more events! GVJCCA is proud to sponsor Cross Cultural Walking Tours– Sunday, May 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2022. We will also be involved with the Cross Cultural Walking Tours in a lunch and learn with Knowledge Network’s “British Columbia: An Untold Story” May 29. You can register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/lunch-learn-with-knowledgenetwork-at-cross-cultural-walking-toursregistration-314203229317.

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by Lorene Oikawa April showers are here, but on the west coast we are also deluged by May is Asian Heritage Month. Another opportunity to share our stories and to learn about other Asian cultures in East Asia, Southern Asia, Western, Central and Southeast Asia. There are about 48 countries, and they vary greatly in terms of ethnicity, culture, religion, economies, government systems, climate, history and food. Within each community there are also differences, for example, multi-generational families who have been in Canada for a long time and families who have come to Canada more recently. One sad reality and commonality with Asian Canadians is racism. We saw a surge of hate during the start of pandemic when Asian Canadians such as Chinese Canadians, Japanese Canadians, and even a young Indigenous woman was targeted with racist hate. They were accused of killing people with the virus and told to “go back where you came from.” One of the Japanese Canadian elders who was attacked in Metro Vancouver said she was shaken and wondered if the past was being repeated. She was born in Canada, and a child when Japanese Canadians were falsely accused of being enemy aliens and forcibly uprooted, dispossessed, incarcerated, and exiled in the 1940s. help in the work to eliminate systemic racism and Targeting people of Asian ethnicity is not new. In 1907, in Vancouver, anti- racial inequities. NAJC sees the introduction of BC’s Asian rioters smashed and looted their way through Chinatown before Anti-Racism Data Legislation as a good step forward heading to their target, the Powell Street area which was home to many for evidence-based decision making and hopes this Japanese Canadians. Chinatown was first in their path since it was next inspires action in other jurisdictions. door to where the mob had congregated beside the then city hall at the corner of Hastings Street and Main Street. The ugly rhetoric that was fuel to the fire was that Asians would take white workers’ jobs and threatened a white Canada. Anti-Asian action was already taking place in the US and provided the inspiration for Vancouver to form an Asiatic Exclusion League. Three days before the riots in Vancouver, there was a riot in Bellingham where South Asian millworkers were attacked and driven out of town.

On May 27, we will be screening Migration + Resilience, an episode from the documentary series, British Columbia: An Untold History, which highlights Japanese Canadian history and the story of the 1907 Anti-Asian riots. Our special guests include educator and author Masako Fukawa and the director Kevin Eastwood who will be available for some questions In times of crisis, the measure of our society is challenged. Some will and a chat after the screening. The event will start at contribute to the fear mongering and blaming of a group of people. If 6pm Pacific, 7pm Mountain, 8pm Central, 9pm Eastern, we know our history and the injustices, we will be resistant to the hateful and 10pm Atlantic. rhetoric. We must ensure the injustices are not repeated. In our solidarity Pre-register for the online event at https://bit.ly/ to fight against racism, we must also learn about the beauty of our diversity BCUntoldDoc in our communities. This is what makes our country stronger when we We are continuing our sharing of Japanese Canadian work to create and sustain thriving, inclusive communities. stories during this 80th anniversary of the start of On May 2nd, NAJC President Lorene Oikawa, NEB Director Susanne the forced uprooting, incarceration, dispossession, Tabata, GVJCCA Human Rights Committee Judy Hanazawa along with and exile and the 75th anniversary of the founding other community members witnessed new Anti-Racism Data Legislation of the NAJC. Terumi Kuwada, one of our past NAJC introduced in British Columbia. One of the National Association of presidents, tells us about her family in the latest post Japanese Canadians’ member organizations, the Greater Vancouver on the NAJC website and social media. From her Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA), participated in a family collection of photos we see her father at a road provincial consultation process and commends this legislation. The NAJC camp and a Japanese play (shibai) performed at an has participated in federal and provincial consultations and joined with continued on page 26 other communities to call for responsible race-based data collection to

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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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with Alice Bradley and Lea Ault lea@hapaizakaya.com

So, we know it’s May because there are flowers. And green leaves on the trees. Otherwise it can feel like November around here. Yet boots and woolly sweaters don’t feel quite right. Isn’t spring in the Pacific Northwest a strange, strange season? I know that as soon as this goes to print the sun will yank aside the clouds and glare down and it will suddenly become hot and all the convertibles will come out and Kits Beach will be full of sunbathers. Then the sky will abruptly darken, spit down rain and hail and we’ll be back indoors playing Wordle.

get it right. The thing about trying and tweaking new recipes is that you only have so many goes before the family gets fed up.

Mango Sago Pudding

3 ataulfa or honey mangoes (NOT Haden mangoes; ataulfa are the slimmer, paler yellow variety which are I have for you today a tapioca recipe. I find tapioca a very strange tangier and smoother than the large rounder Hadens) thing, almost as strange as our springs. Years ago I visited an outdoor ¼ c. condensed milk indigenous museum in Malaysia and one of the exhibits was of a ¼ c. whipping cream traditional tapioca processing setup. The guide took us through, ¾ c. evaporated milk explaining each step of tapioca production, while we listened in growing ¾ c. small tapioca pearls disbelief. Tapioca is made from cassava root. It contains a poisonous In a large pot - larger than you think would be compound called linamarin which can be converted to cyanide! What necessary - boil a ton of water. Like, 3-4L of water. (If the actual….To process it into something edible, people had to grind you do not, the pearls will thicken and thicken until the root, squeeze it to get the liquid (poison) out, wash the remaining you end up with what I believe is technically called sediment, then let it settle, drain off the water and let it dry into cakes. Impossible Glop. And you cannot drain that, and it’s Then it had to be ground again into flour. I’m always amazed by traditional very difficult to wash off your pot, and your colander, staple foods which are not obviously edible but have to undergo major and the spoon, etc. because it’s sticky yet invisible.) processing in order to be safe to eat, never mind edible or tasty. How many people died eating the poisonous root before they figured out how Stirring, add your small pearls in a stream and stir well. to treat it to remove the poison? How hungry do you have to be to not Boil 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally. You want it just cross it off the menu? How many processes did they experiment with to boil so the water keeps moving. before they ended up with - a white powder? They must have been so Peel and cut your mango into a blender or food hungry, because they then made some kind of bread out of that white processor. A Vitamix works a treat. Add all the milks powder, using whatever else can be found in the forest, which can’t be and blend well until smooth. Pour into a large mixing much if you’re grinding up poisonous roots in the hopes that something bowl. edible will come out of all that labour. Isn’t that incredible? It tells you something about human perseverance and ingenuity, doesn’t it? It also Note here: If you like, use 3 mangoes for the puree tells you that there’s not actually that much to sustain you in the tropical and two extra - one to chop into the finished pudding jungle. I’m picturing native Amazonians and Sarawakians slaving away and one to cut into pretty slices for garnish at the end. to make this substance that kept them alive and that we now plop into My family doesn’t like mango pieces in their pudding so I don’t do this. tea that costs $7. And don’t get me started on olives. Just let me say, do not eat olives Arrange a colander over a bowl and have it next to the straight off the tree. They need major processing as well, I don’t know stove, along with a strainer spoon fine enough to pick how someone figured it out. Or fugu! You cut that fish wrong, you DIE. up the balls. When the pearls are transparent (there How about we just cross that item off the menu? Needless to say, no may be a few whitish centres but as long as they’re not all white inside it’s fine; I find it takes forever for fugu recipes will be appearing here at the Community Kitchen. every single one to become transparent) turn off the We’re cutting to the chase today. No grinding cassava! At Asian markets heat and scoop the balls from the water and into you can find something called small pearl tapioca. That’s what we’re your colander. I find a steel mesh colander works but using for this recipe. Not “Minit” tapioca (although I tried this my first a pasta draining one also works as long as the holes time round, major fail) and not big pearl boba. You can use coconut aren’t too large that the pearls fall through. Then milk in place of the evaporated milk but don’t try it with almond milk, it transfer the pearls to your mango mixture, mix well, doesn’t work. I found this recipe on TikTok but it took four iterations to pour into a serving dish (I use a small souffle dish) and

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chill about 4-6 hours at least, although my daughter will start spooning Zest of ½ lime this up pretty much immediately, she likes it warm. This pudding will not 1 tsp sambal oelek or ½ tsp sriracha (optional for a become very set in case you’re wondering. Serve with a little whipped little heat) cream on top and some sliced mango. 8 bone in chicken thighs Garnish: limes, chopped cilantro, minced green onion

Coconut Caramel Chicken

In a skillet, place the brown sugar and water and A little South East Asian chicken to have before your mango pudding! heat over medium heat until it all bubbles and gets Mom and I tweaked this recipe to make it tastier and easier; you’re syrupy. Add the remaining ingredients except for the welcome. Serve with steamed rice and salad, like an Asian slaw or similar. chicken and lime zest. Bring to a boil then lower heat and let simmer until the sauce thickens and gets a ½ c. brown sugar little syrupy. Add the lime zest and sambal oelek/ 1 T. water Sriracha, remove the lemon grass if you used it. Set 1 14-oz can low fat coconut milk oven to 350F. 1 ½ T. fish sauce (or shoyu if you don’t like fish sauce) 2 ½ T. rice vinegar 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 slices peeled ginger 1 shallot, thinly sliced Pinch white pepper

Arrange chicken in a 9” x 11” casserole, skin side up. Pour sauce over. Bake in oven, basting occasionally with the juices, 45-60 minutes. If the skin doesn’t brown to your liking, broil it for a few minutes.

Optional: stalk of lemon grass that you’ve bashed a few times (if you happen to have some lemon grass around)

Note: you can brown the chicken skin in a skillet first if you like. This will render more fat and make a mess of your stove top, but you will have to baste less to get a brown skin. Up to you….

Kage-san continued Similarly in 1977, the Greater Vancouver Association of Japanese Immigrants was established. At this time, the Association, now the Japanese language division of JCAA (Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association), was the only venue where Japanese immigrants could gather together. Mr. Kage played an important role in the making of this Association, as well as our Ohfu-kai, which was founded eight years later in 1985. Ohfu-kai was created with the objective to support, exchange information and interact among retirees who immigrated to the Greater Vancouver area. Throughout his life, Mr. Kage stayed active in the Redress movement for Japanese Canadians, as well as working to protect human rights for other minority groups such as First Nations communities, etc. He was also the chair of the Human Rights Committee at JCCA, until recently.

鹿毛達雄さんを悼む re-printed from original Japanese article in Ohfukai’s March newsletter with author’s permission: 桜楓会3月号のニュースレターに記載)

桜楓会の名誉会員でいらっしゃった鹿毛達雄さんが今年2022年1月26日にお亡くなりになりま

した。享年86、緩漫に進行する健康悪化と闘いながらの数年でした。深く哀悼の意を表します。鹿毛達雄さんは歴史家、人権活動家として広く知られた方で、1975年にカナダに移住さ後、日系コミュニティの中でも新しい移住者などを支えるための清報の提供や具体

れた

的な支援

など幅広い活動をされ、コミュニティの育成に大いに貢献されてきました。鹿毛さんがバンク

ーバーに移住者として来られた頃は日系移民100年を祝う一大イベントを控え、日系コミュニ

ティも盛り上がりつつあった頃です。1975年には隣組が組織さ動が本格化した時代です。

れ、今に続くコミュニティの活

1877年（明治10年）、日本人として初めてこの地を踏んだ永野菖蔵さんを記念して、1977年に「

日系カナダ人100年祭」がスタートしました。またこの10年後の1988年

に、時のマルルーニ首

相と合意・締結した戦後補償のためのリドレス運動も、この日系 100年祭が恐らく強く後押しを

したのでしよう。

同じく1977年に、グレーターバンクーバー移住者の会が設立されました。現在では JCCA（日系カ

ナダ市民協会）の日本語部として吸収されてしまっていますが、当時は日本からやってきた移住

者たちが唯一集まることのできる場所がここでした。このグレーターバンクーバー移住者の会も

鹿毛さんの努力で発足したものです。それから8年後の 1985年に我らの桜楓会が発足しました。

After the conclusion of the Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement in December 1998, he published a book, Nikkei Kanada Jin no Tsuiho (The Deportation of Japanese Canadians) by Akashi Shoten.

グレーターバンクーバー移住者の会に集う、主に日本から退職者移住をしてきた人たちの相互

Mr. Kage devoted his life to the well being of the Nikkei community and the advancement of human rights. May he rest in peace.

運動にも、鹿毛さんは携わっていかれます。お亡くなりになる直前まで、JCCA（日系カナダ市民

Katsumi Kubo, Chairman, Ohfukai Society This article was originally published in Japanese in the March 2022 edition of the Ohfu-kai newsletter)

協力と清報交換、及び親睦などを目的として、移住者の会の会長だった鹿毛さんの発案と後押し

でできたものでした。当時はカナダには退職者移住というカテゴリーのビザがありました。

その後も日系カナダ人のための戦後補償（リドレス）の運動をはじめ、少数民族の人権擁護の協会）の人権委員会の委員長を務めていらっしゃいました。リドレス

12月には「日系カナダ人の追放」（明石書店）を上梓されています。

合意を終えた後、1998年

思えば日系コミュニティの健全な発展や人権擁護にその半生を捧げられた鹿毛達雄さんでした。心からご冥福をお祈りいたします。（会長久保克己）

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NAJC continued internment camp. You can read her story and see the incarceration and many are no longer with us. Their strength and photos at http://najc.ca/terumi-kuwada-shares-her- determination ensured the survival of the next and future generations. We will share their stories so that the lessons are learned and remembered. family-story/ Their love is with us, in our memories and in our hearts. Share a brief story about your family in 1942 and/or your family’s involvement in some of the NAJC activities and events since 1947. Email your ideas, family stories and Loyally serving the Strathcona photos to national@najc.ca On May 13, we will be remembering the first arrivals at Kaslo, the second of the ghost towns where Japanese Canadians were incarcerated. Japanese Canadians arrived on a paddlewheeler, SS Nasookin, on Kootenay Lake. The population of Kaslo would grow from 500 to about 1,200. About 78 stayed in the historic Langham Hotel which was built in the 1890s. The building is now a charitable public arts heritage centre and Japanese Canadian Museum. Next month we will have more stories and events such as the Online National Outreach Meeting for The Anglican Healing Fund for Japanese Canadians on June 25.

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One Nikkei Voice

– TERRY WATADA

KENNY FUKOMOTO (SIC): OUT OF OBSCURITY by Terry Watada The Grassroots is an American pop/rock band active from the mid 1960s to mid 1970s. With a string of hits starting with Where were You When I needed You? and Let’s Live for Today and followed by Midnight Confessions, Sooner or Later and Temptation Eyes, the band released twenty-four singles with more than half in the top 40 of the Billboard Charts. Three titles cracked the top ten. Today, the band’s recordings are a mainstay of Sirius XM Radio and mainstream “golden oldie” radio stations. I believe the group (in some form) is still performing around the world. The Grassroots formed when three studio musicians cut Where were You… and formed a band when the song became a hit. When it came to recording an album, they recruited the local San Francisco band The Bedouins. They found success and appeared on teen shows like Shindig and Lloyd Thaxton. They even backed Barry McGuire (Eve of Destruction) during his performance on the Ed Sullivan Show. They went on to open for the Mamas and Papas. But the music (folk rock) wasn’t to the members’ liking, so the band left. Not to be deterred, the original musicians recruited another local group, The Thirteenth Floor. What emerged was a set band that featured Kenny Fukumoto, who was listed as Kenny Fukomoto, on bass. For some reason, Fukumoto did not seem to object. He was a sansei from the Bay area, as far as I can tell. He suffered the internment camp experience, which one I don’t know. After release, his mother won the argument within the family to stay in the United States. So, he could’ve been Japanese but that was not his fate. Meanwhile, the band went back into the studio as the Grassroots to record a follow-up song and album. Unfortunately, before the tape could be lined up, Fukumoto was drafted into the army and ended up in Vietnam. Fortunately, he survived, but his career as a musician in a successful band was over. While in Vietnam, Fukumoto discovered that the song Let’s Live for Today became an anthem for his fellow soldiers. They played it all the time to remind them that home awaited them. When he returned in 1968, he learned that the Grassroots had recorded one of his songs, Feelings (not the middle-of-the-road and treacleladen mainstay by the Brazilian singer Morris Albert). Fukumoto’s song contained a pensive melody and arrangement with a psychedelic middle part. Interesting to hear.

I’ve never known ‘til now Feelings I’ve had inside The feelings you’ve never known Feelings you’ve never found Na, na-na-na, na-na Na, na-na-na, na-na Na, na-na-na, na-na I will live for a long time And then you’ll see Just how sad a man can be Oh girl, can’t you see that it’s me? Can’t you see it’s me now? But this was not the end to Fukumoto’s story. Some say he became a well-known sculptor in the Bay Area. Cannot confirm that nugget. In 1975, he and his wife Tina opened Shabu Shabu the first Japanese restaurant in the area. It was propitious since the Japanese cuisine fad was just starting. Sushi became an obsession. After a while, they closed and opened Kenny’s Flying Fish Grill in Carmel, California. Eventually, they combined the two ideas and, in 1980, established Robata Grill and Sake Bar, which has been going ever since. I understand the Fukumotos sold their interest in the restaurant. Kenny certainly is of retirement age. I doubt his children, if he has any, are involved with the place. Reviews of the place indicate that the management and nature of the place have changed: I have been a customer of Robata for more than 20 years. The place has a new owner and I have been there three times since the change. Unfortunately, what used to be a fantastic restaurant is now mediocre and probably soon to be out of business. The staff is inept, and the menu has been so pared back that there is nothing special anymore. Hopefully the owner will pay attention to the many bad reviews and make changes before it’s too late. Oh well, restaurants come and go, but Kenny Fukumoto’s legacy as a musician and restauranteur are intact. He may still be an obscure reference, but his story is fascinating.

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OURS TO TELL – JAPANESE CANADIAN RESEARCH DIRECTORY

The Toronto NAJC recognized Ken Adachi’s contribution to telling our story with his seminal work, The Enemy That Never Was, by hosting an online launch of the Japanese Canadian Research Directory. As well, a link to the Chapter from Roy Ito’s book Stories of My People titled, the Enemy That Never Was, Ken Adachi & George Tanaka was released. Links to the Directory and this Chapter are at www.torontonajc.ca We had a nice crowd of over 60 individuals from across Canada show up on Wednesday, April 20. At the end of the event, we surprised our amazing research assistant Bailey Irene Midori Hoy with a gift of some funding for her future studies in history at UBC. A virtual cheque for $1,500 was presented by the architect of the Directory, Fabiano Rocha an award-winning U of T Librarian. We are very grateful for the dedication of these two individuals who have been working for over a year to develop the Directory. The Directory is a fully functional bibliographic, searchable database and continues to be refined and improved. More information will be forthcoming as we develop this important resource.

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TALK TO US If you are a website designer, social media expert, graphic designer, filmmaker, strategic planning consultant, or have volunteer or professional experience as an event planner or volunteer coordinator. We have received capacity and event specific funding from the federal and provincial governments to assist with upcoming events and enhancements to our organization. These positions are project focused and are suitable for those wanting to engage with the Japanese Canadian community in Toronto while receiving some monetary recognition for their work. All ages are welcome to contact us to tell us more about yourself. Email communications@ torontonajc.ca EXILES IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JAPANESE CANADIANS IN NIAGARA A launch of this Digital Museum project will take place at the Lincoln County Museum on June 29th, 2022. We are thrilled that Sachi Matsushita who was interviewed for the book of this name by Addie Kobayashi can attend this launch. We are grateful for the JC Wellness Grant that enabled this launch event.

DINNER TO OBSERVE THE 80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE INTERNMENT MAYOR’S ANTI-RACISM ROUND TABLE Toronto NAJC Board members engaged in an intensive SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022 4PM – 7PM at Momiji Centre discussion as part of this City initiative. We are grateful for a $10,000 grant from the JC Wellness Fund and funding TORONTO HOSTS THESE EVENTS from the Multiculturalism, and Federal Anti-Racism Initiatives Program THE 75th ANNIVERSARY of the NAJC/NJCCA Grant Program and an Ontario Anti-Racism, Anti-Hate Grant for expenses HUMAN RIGHTS SYMPOSIUM in excess of $10,000. Priority for dinner attendees will be to Toronto NAJC An Inheritance of Activism (in partnership with the survivor members. A limited number of spaces will be available for survivors NAJC Human Rights Committee) from outside of Toronto who are attending the Symposium. OCTOBER 28, 29, 30, 2022 | TORONTO SYMPOSIUM AFTER-PARTY The Toronto NAJC is grateful for grant support 8PM at a central location in Toronto to be determined from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, the The Toronto NAJC is grateful for grant support from the Canadian Race Multiculturalism, and Federal Anti-Racism Initiatives Relations Foundation, the Multiculturalism, and Federal Anti-Racism Initiatives Program Grant Program and an Ontario Anti-Racism, Program Grant Program and an Ontario Anti-Racism, Anti-Hate Grant. Anti-Hate Grant. Stay in the Symposium Info Loop by signing up at: torontonajc.ca/75th-anniversary-human-rights-symposium ENSURING THE LEGACY OF THE JAPANESE CANADIAN CENTENNIAL TEMPLE BELL In 2012 the Ontario government closed Ontario Place for redevelopment leaving the future of the Japanese Canadian Centennial Temple Bell unclear. In June of 2017 the newly developed Trillium Park and the William Davis on the East Island opened. Plans for the West Island where the Temple Bell is located was not determined at that time. Finally last summer, the Ontario Government issued contracts to three private companies for the redevelopment of Ontario Place. One of those to Therme Corporation is a proposal to build a large aquatic complex close to the Japanese Canadian Temple Bell. DECEMBER 21, 2021, MEETING WITH ONTARIO GOVERNMENT Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi, Ron Shimizu and Sue Obata of the Toronto NAJC met with Mark Saunders who had been appointed as Special Advisor to Premier Ford overseeing the redevelopment of Ontario Place along with Assistant Deputy Minister, Michael Robertson of the Ministry of Infrastructure. FEBRUARY 22, 2022, MEETING Mr. Saunders reiterated that all options regarding the Bell (i.e., remaining in place, being moved within Ontario Place and possibly moving the Bell out of Ontario Place) were on the table and no decision as to its future had been made. The Toronto NAJC representatives emphasized the community position that the Bell remain in place in Ontario Place in an appropriate natural setting. (i.e., not next to noisy swimming pad or a Ferris wheel type attraction). The idea of placing the Bell and Belfry in a Japanese garden setting was raised as an aesthetic enhancement and ecological attraction to the whole of Ontario Place. APRIL 21, 2022, MEETING Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi, Ron Shimizu, Sue Obata of the Toronto NAJC met with Michael Robertson, Rose Hong and their colleagues of the Ministry of Infrastructure. Pat Deutscher attended primarily as an observer and for insight he might have as a former ADM at the Ontario Ministry of Finance. We were told that Mr. Saunders had resigned as Special Advisor as he recently became a candidate running in upcoming provincial election. The meeting included representatives of the Steven Burgess Architects firm, conservation specialists which had been retained by the province to evaluate officially designated culturally important items currently on Ontario Place. They explained that the Temple Bell is not officially designated a cultural heritage item under provincial Heritage Act but said they are recommending the Bell be evaluated as a culturally important item for designation under the Act in recognition of its historical and cultural significance. When asked how long this process might take, they said it would take 6-8 months. While a final decision on recommendations is still to be made, the spirit of the discussions leaves us hopeful for a positive outcome. These hypothetical questions were posed at the February meeting: Bell stays in current location We restated this would the preference and that it’s site not be impacted by adjacent redevelopment which would diminish the serenity, tranquility and natural beauty of the Temple Bell in its unique Belfry in its current site. Bell is moved but remain within Ontario Place This would be a second choice as long it was situated in a publicly accessible natural landscape which afforded serenity and tranquility. The fragility of the glass tiled belfry was again emphasized. Bell is moved out of Ontario Place This option was rejected. The meeting closed with a commitment to pursue 1) More discussion on the evaluation of the Temple Bell to be officially designated a culturally important item under provincial legislation. 2) More discussion on implications of having the Bell remain in its current site. 3) More discussion on implications of having the Bell moved but stay within Ontario Place with some structural engineering expertise present to review implications of moving the Bell and Belfry. 4) That the next meeting be held at the Temple Bell site to ensure that all involved in the discussions can closely examine the Bell, Belfry, and site.

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Unique Summer Opportunity

Do you know a young person who might want to learn more about Japanese culture, growing heirloom Japanese vegetables, participating in the Nikkei Garden Farmers Market, the Powell Street Festival and assisting with activities and programs at Tonari Gumi – while getting paid! Tonari Gumi has an opening for a summer Program Assistant and Urban Farm Assistant. For more details please email Tonari Gumi at ed@tonarigumi.ca with the subject line: Canada Summer Jobs with a cc to tg.gardeners@gmail.com This position is funded by the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) wage subsidy program Eligible student participants must: • be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of the employment; • be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident and, • be legally entitled to work in Canada. The position is for 8 weeks starting in July. Job Type: Full-time Salary: $16.00 per hour Japanese Canadian Survivors’ Social Club Tonari Gumi will be streaming the BC Redress announcement on Saturday, May 21st at the centre (42 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver). Doors open at 10:45, viewing of the announcement from Steveston is scheduled to start at 11:30 am. Lunch will be served. Registration & inquiries: socialclub@tonarigumi.ca / 604-687-2172 ext. 105 (Yuko) Tonari Gumi, in collaboration with GVJCCA and Steveston Community Society, is bringing opportunities for social contact, camaraderie and connection for those who were affected by the internment during World War II and other seniors. Gatherings will take place throughout 2022, and is funded by the Japanese Canadian Survivors Health and Wellness Fund. Schedules and details will be announced in the Bulletin and on Tonari Gumi website as they become available. www.tonarigumi.ca/post/japanese-canadiansurvivors-social-club

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Social Club Gatherings June 19: Father’s Day picnic at Spanish Banks July 6: Steveston walking tour Date and destination TBD: Bus trips IKOI Tea Time at TG is back! Come join us for IKOI Tea Time every Friday at Tonari Gumi. Chat with new and old friends over tea/coffee and snacks. Do you have questions about how to use your smartphone or tablet computer? Our young volunteers will be happy to help! Suggested donation $2. Lunch is also available for $7. Fridays at 10AM - 1PM at Tonari Gumi (42 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver) Help bring Japanese bentos to seniors: Delivery volunteers needed With an increase in TG’s bento Meals-on-Wheels service requests, we are currently looking for volunteers who can help deliver bento lunches to homes in the New Westminster/Coquitlam (south)/Surrey (north) region. TG prepares bento lunch boxes in our kitchen on Tuesdays, and delivery is arranged for seniors who are unable to go out or cannot cook. Help us bring familiar dishes to those who may not have access to Japanese food. Inquiries/volunteer registration: 604.687.2172 ext. 106, programs@tonarigumi.ca (Rie)

The Japanese Community Volunteers Association, “Tonari Gumi” gratefully acknowledges and thanks the following people for their generous donations received March 29 to April 22, 2022. Although we try our best, we may miss your name. Please contact us and we will make correction in the next issue. Monetary Donations Masayoshi Mineta, Masayoshi Mineta, Shizu Sheburoff, Kazuko Hamade, Toyoko Mallet, VanCity Community Foundation – Marta Rose Eliasberg & Stefan Martin Heyman Legacy Fund, The Frank H Hori Charitable Foundation. Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) Natsuhiko Wada In memory of Grace Kadonaga (Canada Helps) Ann M Yamamoto In Kind Donations Takao Ozawa, Toshie Aoki, David Iwaasa, Miwako Tateishi, Hisako Tanaka, Youji Kageyama, Yasuo Ito, Nachiko Yokota, Ken Kwan, Shoko Hashimoto, June Yamamoto, Chikako Matsumoto, Jessy Johl/Queen Elizabeth Lions Club, Anonymous (5) MONTHLY GIVING Monetary Donations (Canada Helps) Takashi Sato, Tsutae Suzuki, Mitsuko Mizuguchi, Tamotsu Nagata, Satomi Yamashita, Emiko Morita, Anonymous (1)

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face of the thermometer usually has a table displaying recommended soil temperature for planting popular vegetable seeds. (Ambient air temperature will fluctuate daily; soil temperature is the best gage of whether the time is right to plant). With packages of seed costing up to $5.00, germination failure can be expensive. According to West Coast Seeds … “for many other kinds of seeds, germination only occurs at a certain soil temperature….For untreated seeds like corn, soil temperature is absolutely critical - if it is too cold, untreated corn seeds may simply rot. The soil thermometer is a very useful tool when it comes to by Makiko Suzuki planting seeds, applying nematodes, and transplanting I remind my sister, a reluctant gardener but appreciative of fresh seedlings.” vegetables, of the health benefits of gardening; that gardening reduces stress, improves sleep, and increases mobility. Mamiko happily notices Volunteers at work! these results! An added bonus in this year of higher-priced organic A BIG shout out to wonderful Tonari Gumi Garden Club vegetables: ‘growing your own’ saves funds as well as providing a volunteers Miki, Tracy, Kazue, Eddie, Mayumi, Vicki, healthier diet. Sharon and especially our drivers, Mamiko Van Horn, Along the west coast temperate zone, uncommon cold weather has delayed most of the gardening season. Currently only hardy overwintering mizuna and komatuna (mustard greens), nira (Japanese leeks), wasabi and kale are in harvest mode. Other cool weather vegetables, like sayaendo (snow peas), started inside and planted-out mid-April, is now slowing starting to climb. (True to the plant’s name, the starts were unfazed by several snow dustings. Shungiku (edible chrysanthemum) and kabu (Japanese turnip), directly sown mid-April, have just emerged, having survived the ‘last frost’ while underground.

Larry Okada, David Issawa and Peter Buckland (car and rototiller!). Starting from bare ground, over a course of a few months, five 75’ planting beds at a Langley farm are now ready and one-half of the beds are seeded!

A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Community Supporters! Again, this year West Coast Seeds donated seeds for our garden/farm program and a huge roll of float cloth for our Langley Farm. Thank you to Orrin Morishita for delivering these to us. Plus, for the last few years WCS Spring daikon, has also been planted out in hopes of beating root-maggots have been donating their red shiso plants growing in that hatch early summer from eggs laid by cabbage moths. Daikon grows their test fields to TG. Their wonderful seeds reliably rapidly – about 50 days from planting until harvest. Daikon greens are provide the healthy productive vegetables for our tender and highly nutritious and delicious when prepared as tsukemono markets and seniors’ meal program. – simply wash fresh leaves and stems, massage with a bit of salt, then squeeze out surplus water that is drawn out in the process. Chop leaves Plus, Hakkako Ramen Restaurant on East Hastings into bite size lengths. Taste, and adjust the saltiness; if tsukemono is too donated large food grade plastic buckets that we use salty let it sit in a bit of water and squeeze again - if not salty enough add for growing gobo. Thank you to Kazuko! Our volunteer Eddie kindly removed the bottoms to all these buckets. a bit more salt or a dash of shoyu. These buckets allow the gobo roots to grow over 18”! Reference to the Tonari Gumi book Our Edible Garden: the Japanese Fresh harvested gobo is so tender and delicious – even Canadian Kitchen Garden is a must for all but seasoned gardeners. eaten raw in salads. The book guides the reader through the gardening season with tips to successfully grow Japanese vegetables. The book is organized by Tonari Gumi Garden Club at the 2022 Nikkei Garden season, starting with cool weather vegetables – the ones that should be Farmers Market planted now. A ‘vegetable planting chart’ (page 14) will assist in planning TGGC hopes to repeat their successful 2021 market the entire gardening season. Each page provides specific growing details table performance! All net proceeds again will go and information as to sources of seeds. towards seniors programs and services offered by A helpful tool for timing springtime planting is a ‘soil thermometer’. Tonari Gumi. Meet TGGC volunteers at the Sunday, Operated similar to a meat thermometer, you will gain a sense of June 12 market and, commencing July, on every whether soil temperature is sufficient to encourage germination. The continued on page 32

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Edible Roots continued second Sunday thereafter. The TGGC table will feature organic Japanese vegetables (such as fuki, warabi, kabu, mizuna), cut flowers, and seedling plants, such as: Herbs: Shiso, mitsuba, nira, yomogi and myouga Hanamame – red and white seeds and starts Japanese cucumber – Summer Dance and Tasty Emperor starts Cherry tomatoes: Sungold (sweet yellow), Midnight Snacker (smoky black) Full sized tomatoes: Japanese Black Trifele, Black Krim and Momotaro starts Pepper: Shishito Eggplant: Orient Express Also available for purchase: Tonari Gumi cook books, beautiful handcrafted Japanese obento carriers, greeting cards, three-layer silk masks, and more! Improve your ‘green thumb’ and culinary skills with an on-line purchase of Our Edible Garden: the Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden. Please visit the Tonari Gumi website for book ordering details www.tonarigumi.ca/shop

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MAY UPDATE VJLS 2022 – 2023 REGISTRATION

Registration has begun for next year’s Japanese Language courses and classes are beginning to fill up. We look forward to offering another fun filled year with in-person lessons, activities, and extracurriculars and would like to encourage everyone to register early so that they can confirm their spot in their class. Registration for all Heritage, Fundamental, Adult, and High school classes can be done on our website at www.vjls-jh.com/register. If you have any questions about what will be offered next year, or what course may be right for you or your child, please contact info@vjls-jh.com for more information.

VJLS SCHOOL SHOW & GRADUATION DATES

We’re approaching an exciting time of the year where we celebrate the progress and learning our students have made as they complete their studies for the year, graduate, and look forward to next year’s lessons and activities. On May 28th the annual VJLS School Show will return with presentations from students of all grades, demonstrating all that they have learned this year. A month later, on June 18th we will be recognizing all of our graduates and scholarship recipients at our end of year Graduation ceremony. We are grateful to the many years of dedication that our students have put into their learning and appreciate the opportunity to celebrate their success and continued learning with their families, teachers, and fellow students. Graduation ceremonies for Children’s World will take place on June 15, 16, and 17 for our toddler, preschool, and daycare programs. We are excited to see many of them continue on their journey next year as part of our Kindergarten classes.

JAPANGLISH CAFÉ

Interested in practicing your Japanese and/or your English and meeting new friends? For beginner, intermediate and advanced English and Japanese learners are welcome to join us at VJLS-JH’s

‘Japanglish’ Cafe! We are hosting our last Language Exchange Cafe of the school year on May 21st from 4:30-5:45pm. The program will run bi-weekly through the spring with the possibility of extending into the summer. The 2022 Japanglish Café program has been taken on by the VJLS-JH Student Council. If you have any questions, contact n.murata@vjls-jh.com

LOW COST BOOK SALE!

We are having a book sale! Led by our library volunteers, we will be hosting our first book sale of 2022 at VJLS-JH this May. Join us on May 28th from 10-2pm to purchase affordable, used books from a variety of genres and reading levels. Most books are in Japanese.

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Milestones OYAMA, Sadako (Susie) July 05, 1929 – January 24, 2022. With much sadness we say good-bye to our Mom, Sister, Aunt, Nana and great grandma that passed away after a brief battle with cancer. Predeceased by husband Hayaru (Joe) along with sisters/brothers both in Vancouver & Japan.

Club Championship in 2010. He also enjoyed bowling, watching Hockey Night in Canada, and playing hearts on the computer. He has requested no koden, flowers or service. Thank you to the health care professionals She leaves behind sister Kiyoko and daughters Ruth who helped with his care and to (Kiyofumi late) and Emi (Derek) and grandchildren Paul the Quilchena staff who made it his (Raquel), Shari (Wesley), Derek (Prudence), Tyler (Tracy), second home. Melanie (Alex), great grandson Wesson, many nieces/ nephews also Tobi, Russell and Waffle. Since mom & dad’s Vancouver arrival together they started a dry cleaning business, corner grocery store and employment with Hudson’s Bay food services where she retired. Mom enjoyed travel, always remained active through her daily walking, line dance social activities, Nikkei Centre Auxiliary volunteer and a very proud member of Sakura singers. Sadako’s family would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to Crossroads Hospice, Burnaby Hospital Palliative Care, Burnaby Home Health, Royal Columbia Hospital, Dr. Ali Akbar-Zadeh, Dr Myuran Ratnarajah along with the many Healthcare heroes who greatly cared for her.

In lieu of flowers or Koden please support Robert Nimi KITAGUCHI, Hisako (Esther) In her Nikkei Home in her memory would be much appreciated 102nd year, Hisako “Esther” Kitaguchi passed away on February 25, 2021, thank you. peacefully and with much grace, to Funeral and interment were conducted at Forest Lawn, be reunited with her beloved family. Burnaby, BC. with immediate family only as per Mom’s request. Our apologies to extended family and friends Esther was born in Mill Creek B.C. (later called Woodfibre) on October who would have liked to be included. 19th 1919 to Chiyoe (a nurse) and NAKASHIMA, Luke We are Tokugoro Sato (a former boatbuilder sad to announce that Luke and the head carpenter at the mill). Nakashima, 85, passed The second of five siblings, Hisako away on April 6, 2022. He is was raised and educated there. An survived by his wife, Micki, outstanding student, she skipped his children, Lynne (Yu-Zhi), two grades, finishing high school Patti (Steve) and James at fifteen. She aspired to follow in (Yeni) and his grandchildren, her mothers’ footsteps, but was Ben, Sam, Amy and Jaden. denied entrance to nursing school, Luke was born in North her tender age working against her. Vancouver in January 1937, On July 1, 1939, she married Tadashi and was 4 when the family was interned during World War Kitaguchi, an Evansburg boy who II. He earned his BSc (Chemistry and Math) at UBC in 1959 had moved to the coast a few years and became a Flight Lieutenant of the 409 “Nighthawk” earlier. In mid-1942, a few months All-Weather Interceptor Squadron (RCAF). Luke and after the birth of her daughter Keiko, Micki met at UBC and were married on August 3, 1963. the entire family along with everyone After leaving the Air Force, he went to UBC to earn his of Japanese descent living on the teaching certificate. He taught at and was department coast was forcibly moved east of the head at Lord Byng and Magee schools in Vancouver. In “hundred mile line”; Hisako, Tad and 1975, he graduated from SFU with an MSc (Education). To their infant daughter ended up in his students, he was Mr. Nak. He retired in 1998. Luke’s Raymond where they initially lived in passion was golf! A member at Quilchena Golf Club since a converted granary and laboured in 1974, he had 4 holes-in-one and won the 1st Flight Match the beet fields, and later, under better Play Championship in 1989 and the Senior Men’s Net circumstances, at Hancock Dairy.

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When restrictions on movement were somewhat relaxed in 1944, Esther and family moved to Summit Lime Works just west of Crowsnest Lake where Tad had found employment as a heavy equipment operator. There she was joined by her parents and later, her brother. At one time the extended family numbered six, spanning three generations, all housed in a tiny two room log cabin. In 1954, Esther and Tad moved to Lethbridge as part owners and operators of Jack’s Coffee Shop. They settled into a small bungalow, raised their daughter and cared for the extended family, staying until late 2001, when Esther and her brother moved to Calgary to be closer to family. Throughout most of that time Esther was employed at Canada Safeway, ending up as head cashier. Esther was an active participant in community life: she ran a small kindergarten at Summit Lime Works, taught Sunday school and worked as a teacher’s aide in Coleman, taught Sunday school at Southminster United Church and later at the Southern Alberta Japanese United Church in Lethbridge and was a member of Bowness Seniors Centre in Calgary. Esther lived a significant part of her life through difficult times, under harsh conditions that few can even imagine today, yet like many of her compatriots, adopted the pervasive “shikata ga nai” philosophy and was buoyed up by an inner strength that carried her forward with optimism. She never dwelt openly on the misfortunes of life, but remembered and was thankful for the good times and kindnesses that were bestowed upon her. She was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who will be remembered always in our hearts. Esther is survived by her daughter Keiko Evelyn (Gerry) Raham, two grandchildren, Chris (Laura) Raham of Scotch Plains NJ and Patrick Raham of Victoria BC and two greatgrandchildren, Parker (Chris) and Kazuo (Patrick) as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins, both here and abroad. She was

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and Colleen. She is survived and will be dearly missed by children Sheila (Ronnie), Warren and Lianna (Martin), siblings Sumi, Tom, Terrie (Eddie), Yuri, Mari (Tats), and many nieces, nephews and friends. Her family is grateful to Richmond Hospital and the Maple Residences in Steveston for their compassionate care and support. As per her wishes, no service will be held. Donations, flowers and koden are gratefully declined. Alan Hideo Omae 1949 – 2022 Alan passed peacefully on April 6, 2022, age 73. Predeceased by parents, Kinuyo and Yeiji. Lovingly remembered by wife Chris; children, Michael Catherine), Mark, Alyssa ( Mauro); beloved grandchildren, Grace and Matthew; siblings, Darrel (Dorothy), Patti (Tony); niece and nephews and extended family. In lieu of flowers or koden, please consider a donation to a charity of your choice. Service April 14 at Riverside Funeral Home, Delta. SUZUKI, Jacqueline Irene (Jacquie) April 30, 1945 - March 29, 2020. Our Mom, Jacqueline Irene Suzuki (Murray) passed away at home on March 29, 2020. While it has been more than 2 years since we lost our Mom, she has never left our thoughts and her influence on our family remains ever-present. She was a source of energy, the life of the party, and forever putting the lives of others ahead of her own. It is for these reasons that we waited to celebrate her life in an environment that reflected how she lived. – Mike and Dave

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Reception | Gallery | Museum Shop: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00am - 5:00pm Sunday & Monday Closed Nikkei Bookstore 日系ブックストア: Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, 11:00am - 3pm

ON UNTIL JUNE 26, 2022 Showcasing modern Japanese culture with many designs created post-2010, this exhibit features objects and images in ten themes: classic Japanese design, furniture+houseware, tableware+cookware, NNMCC AUXILIARY SPRING BAZAAR AND PLANT SALE apparel+accessories, children, stationery, hobbies, healthcare, Saturday, May 14, 2022 | 11 - 3pm Free Admission disaster relief, and transportation. Featured designers include https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events Sori Yanagi, Riki Watanabe, and Issey Miyake.We gratefully Good quality Japanese style items, spring plants and delicious acknowledge the Japan Foundation and the assistance of the Japanese food for sale. Visit the URL above for more info! Consulate General of Japan in Vancouver for this exhibit. MUSEUM SHOP PERMANENT 2F Kadota Landing ミュージアムショップ EXHIBITS – Treasures from the Collection – Taiken: Japanese Canadians Since 1877 https://shop.nikkeiplace.org *Featured* Asahi Kaye Kaminishi #11 limited edition t-shirt In celebration of Koichi “Kaye” Kaminishi’s 100th birthday, the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, in collaboration with the Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum, proudly presents the Asahi Kaye Kaminishi #11 limited edition collector t-shirts. There are a total production of 100 pieces worldwide and each purchase comes with a certificate of authenticity. If you need help locating an item, please contact: jcnm@nikkeiplace.org | 604.777.7000 ext.109 MEMBERSHIPS 会員 | Visit: https://bit.ly/3vX4Jr6 The Nikkei Centre is always welcoming new members. Membership Benefits Include: • Free admission to the museum • Discounts at the museum shop and for certain events and programs • Attendance to the NNMCC Annual General Meeting

NIKKEI IMAGES 日系イメージ Nikkei Images is a publication that focuses on the history of Nikkei in Canada. Continue reading and find past issues: https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/research/nikkei-images/ Excerpt from Volume 18, Issue No.1, Nikkei Images: Nisei 5-pin Bowling Leagues in BC by Masako Fukawa Bowling [was] the most popular activity for the nisei in the late 1950s and into the 1970s and many met their future spouses there. The first Japanese Canadian league, the Nisei Bowling League, was formed in 1957 at the Deluxe Lanes on Hastings and Homer Streets but moved to the Commodore Lanes a couple of years later. The Deluxe then became the home of the Young Adult Buddhist Association Bowling League (YABA). In 1965 a few ex-members of the YABA organized into the Fuji League at the Grandview Lanes where it is today.

MUSEUM PROGRAMS NATIONAL JAPANESE CANADIAN DIGITIZATION STRATEGY PROJECT The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre and the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre welcome anyone interested in Japanese Canadian history and heritage to participate in an online community consultation session via zoom. These sessions seek to understand what points of Japanese Canadian history and heritage are important to the public,

which will guide the development of the National Japanese Canadian Digitization Strategy. This project is funded by the Government of Canada, Digital Access to Heritage Museum Assistance Program. The consultation session will be on Saturday May 14th, 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST The zoom links can be accessed here: https://bit.ly/3yg9kI0

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society JAPANESE CANADIAN SENIORS HEALTH AND WELLNESS FUND: LASTING AND FINAL WORDS ON A PROJECT by Cathy Makihara For the last ten months, Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society (Nikkei Seniors) oversaw creating and distributing grants to Japanese Canadian Survivors from the $2 million dollar fund provided by the Government of British Columbia (more detail was included in a previous Bulletin article June 2021). The Society and Fund are now nearing completion and a final report is to be presented to the Government of BC. We were honoured to do this work. We are sharing with you highlights from the point of view of Ruth Coles and Cathy Makihara, both on the board of directors of the Nikkei Seniors and members of the Steering Committee of the Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness Fund (Fund). How did you manage to set up a non-existent grant fund in such a short time? Ruth The initial meetings were a whirlwind of activities and tasks. A virtual office was set up and guidelines and policies established to govern the actions of a grant organization. It took the cooperation of many good people and the hiring of an excellent Project Manager, Eiko Eby, to lead this project. I think we logged in hundreds of hours even before publicizing the grant office. It was lucky that our organization had years of running an operation on its side. That experience was instrumental in getting a quick start. We established a Steering Committee which, in addition to all of us, included Susanne Tabata, the BC Redress director. The Fund focussed on helping individual survivors who were isolated, lacking connections or had financial needs, and it provided grants to organizations and groups. How did you arrive at that destination? Cathy From the outset, helping those who were directly impacted by the actions of the BC government was a starting point. All the survivors are seniors and we had a good idea of the kind of needs individuals would be experiencing – things like equipment, household chores, isolation, and personal help. We also knew that many survivors were still getting their social interactions through organizations and groups. So it was on these ideas that the Fund had to address individuals and organizations. What was the most exciting and unexpected surprise for you? Ruth Unexpected was the number of individuals who asked for help. We used statistical data to find out more information about our survivor population and it was wonderful to learn how far and wide we live. The other exciting piece for us in Vancouver was learning about the vibrancy of communities across Canada. Our Japanese Canadian community is diverse, warm and welcoming, and we were so excited to connect to so many people. In the end, there were over 1,800 individual grants given

up to $650 in each province. The work of individuals and groups members helped spread the word around. We saw compassion demonstrated every day and appreciation from those who were helped. It was a very welcome experience. In closing, what would you like to share? Cathy I want to share with your readers that our community is generous, kind, modest and courageous. It is even more profound for me who did not grow up in the time of internment, dispossession and relocation of Japanese in Canada, who grew up in peaceful and abundant times, that these individuals are humble, grateful, compassionate and sharing. For all of us who worked on this first Fund, we are grateful to the survivors for sharing their experiences again and opening a hard time in history. It would be ok for me to say that Eiko Eby, Susanne Tabata, Ruth Coles, Linda Kawamoto Reid, Mari Mikuni, Lindsay Fong, Jay Haraga, Linda Li, Lisa Lin, and Robin Bains experienced a rewarding project. We are thankful for the chance to work with the national organization – the National Association of Japanese Canadian and their chapters. Also, with organizations and individuals who did some preliminary work with us on special projects that we had to abandon, we knew that the individuals’ needs would take up most of the funds and the many individuals who helped through these last ten months. Ruth Our project office is still running and we hope to transition in Spring 2022 and close the first Fund office. Speaking for the Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society board of directors, it has been our honour and pleasure to serve. ANNOUNCEMENT The Nikkei Place Charity Golf Day fundraising event, in conjunction with Nikkei Place Foundation, is being held on May 27 at Riverway Golf Course in Burnaby. All proceeds support our dementia-friendly programs. We appreciate your support – participate, donate funds or prizes to the event. For more information: seniors. nikkeiplace.org/golf (604) 777-5000 ext 2002

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Nikkei Place Monthly Update Donation Updates N i kNikkei k e i Place P l ac e Don at ion s NIKKEI PLACE is comprised of three organizations: Nikkei Place Foundation, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, and Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society. For more information or to donate online, visit www.nikkeiplace.org. The Foundation recognises the generosity of our donors. We apologize for any errors or omissions on this list. For questions, contact us at 604.777.2122 or gifts@nikkeiplacefoundation.org

Gifts from April 1 - 30, 2022 inclusive

LEAFS Bronze Stanley & Masako Fukawa Burgundy Anonymous Gold George & Elaine Homma Orange Kumio & Harumi Okamoto Toshiko Tabata Green Aiko Marlene Hamakawa & Taeko Darlene Hamakawa Kikuye Inouye Shigenari Onouye

In Honour of Margret & Shingo Homma Ron Homma In Honour of Roberta Nasu’s 90th Birthday Scott & Sharon Drossos Janet Nasu Thanks to Lisa Uyeda & Linda Kawamoto Reid Lillian Nakamura Maguire In Memory of Frank Cunningham Louis & Gerry Horii In Memory of Art Komori Masako Hori GENERAL DONATIONS In Memory of Kusuo Dick Koyanagi Maiko Behr Kumi Sutcliffe Asha Kydd Esther Matsubuchi In Memory of Tracey Tabata Teruo Koyanagi Dr. Ross Tsuyuki Karen Teraguchi-Miller Ronald Ui In Memory of NIKKEI MATSURI 2022 Mitsuye Maeda George & Elaine Homma Thomas D. Suzuki In Memory of NSHCHS CHARITY Luke Nakashima GOLF DAY Yoriko Vickie Fukui Anonymous Lynne & Yu-Zhi Kiang Naeko Murakami Miyoko Nakashima HONOURS & TRIBUTES In Memory of Alisa In Celebration of My & Akiko Noda Sakiko Noda 90th Birthday Atsuko Mori In Memory of Alan Omae In Honour of John Yoshiharu & Fumiko Aura Hayashi’s 100th Barry & Suzuko Higo Birthday Barry & Suzuko Higo

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In Memory of Sadako Oyama Keiko Oyama Roberta H. Nasu In Memory of Dennis Yuji Enomoto Rona Tanaka MONTHLY GIVING CLUB Anonymous (2) Carina Abe Ian & Debbie Burgess Brian & Marcia Carr Patricia H. Chan Michael & Ruth Coles Grant Dustin Masami Hanashiro Tad & Mitsuko Hosoi Shaun Inouye Kenneth & Bernadine Isomura Mary F. Kawamoto Greciana Langamon Tommy Li Shinobu Kadome Stewart Kawaguchi Ted Kawamoto Catherine Makihara Masako & Ken Moriyama Anne Motozono Roberta H. Nasu Craig Natsuhara Takeshi & Mizuho Ogasawara Chris Oikawa Hanako Oye Linda Kawamoto Reid Vivian Rygnestad Jim & Norma Sawada Howard Shimokura Audrey Shimozawa Barbara Shishido Charlotte Takasaki Sharlene A. Tabata

Michael Takahashi Joyce C. Takeshita Darlene Tanaka & Trevor Jones Grace Tanaka Ginzo & Harue Udagawa Hisako Wada Fred & Linda Yada Chris, Jan Yamamoto & Family Norine K. Yamamoto Sam Yamamoto Tatsuo & Mariko Yamamoto Jack Yeh Gwendolyn Yip & Santa Ono

EXCITING NEWS! NPF Celebrates 20 years of Community Building this May! Thank you to all our supporters for all that you do for Nikkei Place. In celebration of this 20 year milestone, we will be launching a new donor program to replace the Tree of Prosperity annual campaign! We will continue to honour the collective giving of our donors. As a new feature, this program will also recognize tribute gifts made in memory or in celebration of loved ones, and be more symbolic of your philanthropic journey. Not to worry, we will grandfather all active ToP donors into this new program at similar giving levels. More details to come — please stay tuned!

WAYS TO GIVE

HERITAGE ESTATE GIVING CIRCLE Yoshiharu Hashimoto George & Elaine Homma Betty Issenman Sato Kobayashi Cathy Makihara Jane Nimi Carrie Okano Linda Kawamoto Reid Richard & Gail Shinde Norman Shuto Haruko Takamori Sian Tasaka Fred & Linda Yada Sam Yamamoto

Donate online or call us at 604.777.2122 for more information. https://bit.ly/3C0mPLs

LEGACY GIFTS Estate of Mitsuo Hayashi

• CELEBRATIONS & TRIBUTES Celebrate people and moments in your life with a gift in their name. Give a gift to honour, celebrate, or memorialize through a tribute gift.

• SINGLE DONATION Make a single gift to any Nikkei Place charity (NPF, NNMCC or NSHCHS) and support the cause you’re most passionate about at Nikkei Place. • MONTHLY DONATION Monthly Giving is an easy, cost-efficient, and sustainable way to give back year-round — become a Monthly Giving Club member!

Nikkei Place Monthly Update 日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会日系シニアズヘルス健康福祉基金：プロジェクトの最後を飾る言葉執筆者：キャシー槇原日本語訳：大出泉綺日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会（日系シニアズ）は、過去10カ月にわたり、BC州政府から提供された200万ドルの基金を、日系カナダ人生存者への助成金として給付する制度作りと助成金分配を主導してきました（詳細は、2021年6月号会報記事をご覧ください）。現在、プロジェクトは終了に近づいており、近々最終報告書がBC州政府に提出される予定です。メンバー一同このプロジェクトに携わることができ、大変光栄に思っております。今回は、日系シニアズの理事であり、日系カナダ人生存者健康福祉基金（以下、「基金」といいます。）の運営委員会のメンバーであるルース・コールズとキャシー槇原の視点から、プロジェクトのハイライトをお伝えします。

どのようにして、このような短期間で新規基金の立ち上げができたのでしょうか。ルース：プロジェクト初期のミーティングはバーチャルオフィスの設立や助成団体の活動を規定するガイドラインや方針の策定など、様々な活動やタスクでてんやわんやでした。このプロジェクトを進めるため、多くの優秀な方々の協力と、優秀なプロジェクトマネージャーであるエイコ・エビイ氏の支援が必要でした。助成金事務局の公表前にも、何百という時間を費やしたように思います。幸運なことに、当協会の長年の運営経験が幸先のよいスタートに繋がりました。運営委員会を設立し、当協会全メンバーに加え、BCリドレスのディレクターであるスザンヌ・タバタ氏も参加しました。

人とのつながりが希薄で、経済的に困窮している生存者の支援に基金は重点を置き、日系団体に助成金を支給していました。どうしてこのような対応をとったのでしょうか？

日系カナダ人コミュニティは多様性に富み、暖かく、友好的です。このプロジェクトを通じて多くの方々とつながることができ、とても嬉しく思いました。個人や日系団体メンバーの働きにより、基金の存在が周知され、最終的に、各州において1,800人以上の生存者が最高650ドルの助成金を受け取りました。思いやりや助成金を受け取った方々からの感謝を日々感じました。非常に嬉しい経験でした。最後に、何か伝えたいことはありますか？キャシー：読者の皆さんにお伝えしたいのは、私たち日系コミュニティは寛大で、思いやりがあり、奥ゆかしく、勇気のある人たちで溢れているということです。カナダにおいて日本人が、収容・土地はく奪および強制移住させられた時代ではなく、平和で豊かな時代に育った私のような世代の人々が、謙虚に、感謝しあい、思いやりを持ち、分かち合っていることは、とても心に響きます。この最初の基金設立に携わった私たち一同、生存者たちが歴史の中で大変な時代を切り開いてくれたこと、さらにその体験を後世に伝えてくれることに感謝しています。エイコ・エビイ氏、スザンヌ・タバタ氏、ルース・コールズ氏、リンダ・カワモト・リード氏、マリ・ミクニ氏、リンゼイ・フォン氏、ジェイ・ハラガ氏、リンダ・リー氏、リサ・リン氏、そしてロビン・バインズ氏が実りあるプロジェクトを経験したと言っても良いでしょう。全国組織である全カナダ日系人協会およびその支部と協働する機会を得たことにも感謝いたします。また、最終的に断念せざるを得なかった様々な特別プロジェクトの下準備にご協力いただいた団体や個人の貢献により、生存者のニーズが基金の大半を占めることがわかりました。過去10ヶ月間、多くの方々に支援いただきました。ルース：私たちのプロジェクトオフィスは現在も稼働中ですが、2022年春には最初の基金オフィスを閉める予定です。このプロジェクトに参画できたことを日系シニアズ・ヘルスケア住宅協会の理事を代表して光栄に思っております。

【お知らせ】日系プレース・チャリティー・ゴルフデーが5月27日、バーナビーのリバーウェイゴルフコース（Riverway Golf Course）にて開催されます。これは日系プレース基金と共催のファンドレイジングイベントで、収益は全て認知症関連のプログラム支援のために使われます。イベントへの参加、資金や賞品のご寄付など、皆様のご支援をお待ちしております。詳細はこちらまでお問い合わせ下さい。→ seniors.nikkeiplace.org/golf (604) 777-5000 ext 2002

キャシー：元々、かつてBC州政府がとった措置により直接影響を受けた方々を支援することが出発点でした。生存者は全員高齢者であり、私たちは、設備、家事、孤立、身の回りの世話など、彼らがどのような支援を必要としているのか理解していました。また、多くの生存者が日系団体を通じて社会的な交流を持っていることも分かっていました。このような考えに基づき、基金は、個人と団体に働きかける必要がありました。一番感動したこと、予想外だったことは何ですか？ルース：予想外だったことは、個人からの問い合わせの多さです。私たちは統計データを使って生存者の情報を調べましたが、私たち日系カナダ人がカナダ全土にわたって住んでいることを知ることができたことは素晴らしい発見でした。もうひとつ、バンクーバーで感動的だったことは、カナダ全土において日系人コミュニティがいかに活気に溢れているか気づけたことです。

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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

2022-2023 年度日本語学校お申込み今年度修了まで残すところ数ヶ月となり、本校では来年度に向けての準備を始めているところです。来年度も引き続き皆さんに対面授業やアクティビティ、課外授業等でお会いできるのを職員一同楽しみにしております。人数に限りがありますので、是非お早めにお申込みください。また、６月で今年度修了となりますが、お申し込みの際は、現在より一つ上の学年でお申し込みください。受付開始は４月１１日正午からとなりますので、本校ウェブサイトwww.vjls-jh.com/registerより申請ください。来年度の授業やクラスについてのご質問等はinfo@vjls-jh.comまでお問い合わせください。

学習発表会・卒業式いよいよ年度末が近づき、私たち生徒の成長と今年度修了をお祝いする時期となりました。バンクーバー日本語学校の例年行事である学習発表会を5月28日を開催し、全学年が今年度学習したことを発表します。 6月18日には、奨学金授賞式を含めた、修了式・卒業式を開催いたします。子どもたちの成長とこれまでの頑張りを、お友達、ご家族、職員と共にお祝いできること大変嬉しく思います。こどものくに、トドラークラス、プリスクール、デイケアの卒園式は6月15 、16、17日に開催します。卒園後、本校のキンダークラスに進級する沢山のお子さんにまた会えることを楽しみにしております。

Japanglish Cafe 新しい仲間と一緒に、日本語・英語を楽しく練習しませんか？初級から上級までレベルを問わずどなたでも参加可能です。ぜひVJLS-JHの Japanglish Café にお越しください！２０２２年5月21日より数ヶ月（可能であれば夏頃まで）の隔週での開催を予定しております。時間は午後４時半から５時４５分までです。２０２２年Japanglish Caféは本校生徒会が運営を務めます。ご質問等はn.murata@vjls-jh.comまでお問い合わせください。

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5 月 28 日図書販売図書館ボランティアによる本の販売を行います！初回の販売は、5月28日の午前10時から午後2時まで。様々なジャンルの日本語の古本がお安く手に入るチャンスです！

求人募集！当団体では、事務職員と９月から働いてくださるバイリンガルチャイルドケア職員を募集しています。詳しい募集内容についてはこちらから：https://vjls-jh.com/support-us/employment-opportunities/

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日本語認知症ケアギバー・サポートグループ [ 無料 ] ご家族のケアをしている方は忙しく孤立することがあります。人とのつながりを保ったり、自分の状態を顧みる時間もないことも多々あるかと思います。先の見えない介護をひとりで続けるのは困難です。隣組では認知症のご家族をケアしている日本人を支援するサポートグループをZoom で開催しています。自由に話をしながら認知症の症状に関することを相談したり、それぞれの経験をシェアすることでケアギバーの方々の支えとなる集まりを目指しています。対象：現在認知症の家族をケアしている方（同居または遠隔）ファシリテーター：アンダーソン佐久間雅子（BC州認定クリニカル・ソーシャルワーカー）日時：第１＆３金曜日、午後1〜2時アクセス：Zoomズーム（お申込み後に詳細をメールします）お問合せ・お申込み：電話：604-687-2172内線102、メール：services@tonarigumi.ca（正子）

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「語りの会」に参加しませんか？トロント「語りの会」は、日英両語で日本の民話や創作話を語り始めて今年で28年目だ。メンバーの大半は高齢化し、語り部になる若い人をいま募集している。カナダには口頭による歴史・文化伝承の伝統がある。先住民の口頭による集団の記憶の継承があるからだ。 1991年、日系人と先住民がトロントのハーバーフロントで共催した「大地の霊の祭り」で、故・萱野茂（二風谷アイヌ）さんがユーカラ神謡の一節をイクパスイ（捧酒ヘラ）で炉端を叩き調子を取りながら語ってくれた。おそらく、8世紀初頭、巫女・稗田阿礼も七五調で節を付けて神々の物語を語ったのだろう。現代人は短歌・俳句でその遺産を受け継いでいる。一方、トロントでは、1979年に始まった毎週金曜夜のストーリーテリング「千一夜」が今も続き、同じ組織が毎年語りのフェスティバルを主催している。

●「ア」は人間の証明「語りの会」は、日本語教師を中心に1994年に総領事館、国際交流基金の支援を受けて子供対象の昔話の会として始まり、古典から創作話まで枠を広げて継続してきた。最初の13年間は日英別々に1日ずつ2日にわたって演じた。よく続いたものだ。当初から「移民による英語語り」という、いわば他者の言語で語ることにこだわってきた。実は、この裏に極私的な思いがあった。齢35歳で移民してきた僕は、日常的に英語を使うことに疲れ果てていた。日本で身につけてきた知識、文化、自意識までもが北米では英語にしなければ意味をなさないのだ。幼稚園児の方がよほど自由に自分を表現できるという現実に戸惑い、受け身姿勢になり、自分を見失っていた。自分の頭脳は実は日本文化発信のための宝庫だと自覚したのは、前出「大地の霊の祭り」のアイヌ招聘実行委となった時のことだ。当時、カナダ先住民は「the People of the First Nations」と自称していた。英仏系が定住する数千年前から先住してきた民であるという自負がこの呼称に込められている。自分らが先住民権を訴え、文化継承しなければ民族は消滅するという逼迫した思いが滲んでいた。彼らはすんなりと僕を受け入れてくれた。そして、野外会場に、アイヌと北西準州のイヌイット、ラブラドールのインヌーが揃った時、この3つの呼称に同じ音「ァイ・ヌッ」が含まれていることに気付いた。僕はここに人類が発した原初的な言語が潜んでいると思う。その昔、和人（日本人）がアイヌと遭遇した時、「お前は誰だ」と聞いたとしよう。アイヌは当然、「俺は人間だ」と答えただろう。「アイヌ・ネノ・アン・アイヌ」（私は一人の人間らしい人間だ）。アイヌもイヌイットもインヌーも同様に「人間」という意味なのだ。他者と遭遇した時の最初の音は、太古から「ア！」であったに違いないと思う。萱野さんはその後、1994年から参院議員を1期務めたが、国会での演説の一説をアイヌ語で行い、議員たちを唖然とさせた。彼は、自己証明としての民族言語とナラティブは人間の尊厳にかかわる重要素であることを示したのだ。

●ユーラシア大陸のドンつき語りを始めた時に指針となりバイブルとなったのは、民俗学の祖・柳田國男の「山のくらし」と「遠野物語」、そして、河合隼雄著「日本人の心と昔話」である。前者は、日本の基層文化を構成するのは、コメ文化の平野の民と、狩猟採集や交易を基本とする山の民であること、その2つが東北の遠野地方においては混在していることを民話、伝承を通じて示唆してくれた。古代から、神々の社は森と御神木によって鎮守されてきた。それが日本人の心の安寧となってきたのだ。言い換えると、人間は自然のサイクルの一部であるという死生観であり、大自然の中では、自我は霊というプラズマとなって無限に微細な分子のまま浮遊する存在に過ぎないという世界観である。

“2022 the 28th Katari Japanese Storytelling”で検索すればリンクに繋がる。(photo: Yosh Inoue)

この日本人の自我と他者との境目が、西洋人に比べて曖昧なままであることを、日本の昔話とグリム兄弟の童話集の比較で論じたのが、ユング派精神科医の河合隼雄だ。彼は、グリム童話と日本民話の中にほぼ同じ筋書きの話を発見した。それが「手無し娘」だ。娘は継母に疎まれ、父親に両腕を切り落とされるが、通りかかった若者に救われ、嫁となって子供を授かる。それをまたしても継母が妬み、子供を背にしたまま放り出される。最後は、失くした両腕を取り戻すのだが、グリム童話では「神に祈った時」に授かるのに対して、日本民話では、背中からずり落ちそうになった赤子を後ろ手で支えようとすると自然に両腕が生えてくる。つまり、母性本能が取り戻させるのだ。河合は、その違いを西洋の一神教と日本の自然崇拝で説明した。あるいは、「浦島太郎」の四国版は、玉手箱を開けて白煙をかぶり「♫ たちまち太郎はお爺さん」になってからがいよいよ本番なのだ。玉手箱には乙姫との再会が約束されていた。河合がこだわるのは竜宮城での乙姫との関係だ。どこを探しても性的接触が見つからないという。太郎は、帰ってきた村で母が既に他界したことを知り、初めて乙姫と夫婦になる。ここに、日本の母と息子特有の関係（マザコン！）を見て取った。僕は長いことこの説明で納得していたが、「古事記」に浦島太郎を原型とした寓話「海彦・山彦」があり、姫と結ばれ鰐の子を授かっている。あるいは、母子家庭ではなく両親がいたという地方版もある。さらには、竜宮城はのちの改変であり、元ネタでは中国の理想郷・蓬莱山だという。現代人の知る「浦島太郎」は、その後に仏教の影響などで、時代に即して改定されてきたようだ。河合先生の十全な論考をここで否定する意図はない。日本列島はユーラシア大陸の東の外輪をなしている。縄文時代から今日まで、北はアムール川とサハリン島、中央は朝鮮半島、南は沖縄・南西諸島の隣人たちと、われわれの祖先は交易と文化交流を繰り替えしてきた。それがシルクロードの役割だった。僕は「語りの会」を通じて、カナダからそれを辿りたいと思う。カナダの多文化主義がそれを後押してくれる。以前、オタワの旧文明博物館の中国系学芸員が日系ボイスに現れて、「語りの会」を取材していったことがある。その彼がふと、「シンデレラは元々中国の話ですよ」という。王子が捜す「小さな靴が足にフィットする女性」とは「纏足」女性のことだという。唐時代に既に存在した纏足文化の話が、欧州に伝わり宮殿が舞台になったとしても不思議はない。この仮説は、今日まで続くユーラシア大陸の侵略、略奪の歴史を浮き彫りにする。支配欲の化身が魔女で、シンデレラ（灰だらけの下女）を洗脳して敵地に送り込み、王子をたぶらかして宮殿を乗っ取る計略など、どこぞの諜報部員ならやりかねない。「かたり」という言葉は二重の意味を含むのだ。「物語る」という意味の他に、法律用語の「騙り」は詐欺を意味する。即ち「語る」とは物語りの両面性、虚と実を含んでいる。もっと正確に言えば、言葉の一つひとつが虚実を兼ね備えているのである。―「嘘によるほかは語られぬ真実もある」（芥川龍之介「侏儒の言葉」）

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Eastsideから見える日本と世界第46回「難民」と「避難民」 ■ウクライナ難民の日本での受け入れ

■ウクライナ以外からの難民の声

2022年2月に開始されたロシア軍のウクライナ侵攻から2カ月が過ぎ、ウクライナからの国外難民は520万人を超えました。カナダを含めた各国同様、日本もウクライナからの難民の受け入れを素早く表明しました。難民受け入れに対する日本国内の関心も高く、連日報道されています。また、各地の自治体、大学・日本語学校などが積極的に住民・留学生としての受け入れを行い、渡航費や生活費などを支援しています。支援団体にも多くの支援の申し出が相次いでいると聞きます。これまで長く「難民鎖国」と批判されてきた日本がこれを機に難民受け入れの門戸を開くのか、ということも注目されています。

こうした状況に対して、「ウクライナから来た人たちへの政府の対応が他の国からの避難者になぜ適用されないのか」という疑問の声が、すでに日本に逃れ難民申請をしている人たちやその支援者たちからあげられています。 2021年2月にミャンマーで軍事クーデターが起きた際、日本政府は約４カ月後の５月末に母国の情勢不安を理由として日本に残りたい在日ミャンマー人に「特定活動」の在留資格を与える緊急避難措置を導入し、2022年２月末までに約4300件が措置の対象になりました。一見、対象人数が多く問題がないかのように見えますが、在留期間は６カ月が基本で（特例的に1年のケースもあり）、就労時間に週 28時間の上限が設けられる人も多くいます。そのため、1年間の滞在ができ、フルタイムの就労も可能なウクライナ人と比べ、ミャンマー人は制約が多い措置となっています。この背景には、緊急措置を利用し、条件のよい在留資格を得るミャンマー人が出ないようにする政府の意図があったと言われています。また、緊急避難措置を得た後に難民認定につながったミャンマー人はごくわずかで、多くが今も不安定な立場で日本で暮らしています。そして、ミャンマー以外にもクルド人、アフガニスタン、アジア地域、アフリカ地域等から日本に逃れてきて、難民申請をしたが認められず、不安定な立場に置かれ続けている人たちも大勢います。今回のことが、ウクライナに限らず、自国で生活をすることが困難となった「難民」に対して日本がより門戸を開くきっかけとなることを願います。

■「難民」の定義を狭く解釈実は、今回の受け入れで日本政府はウクライナの人たちを「難民」ではなく「避難民」と呼び、従来の難民受け入れとは異なる、新たな制度の枠組みで受け入れています。もともと日本政府は難民条約での「難民」の定義を狭く解釈し「戦争や紛争から逃れた人は含まない」という立場を取ってきましたが、今もそれを変えていないことがこの「避難民」という新語の背景にあります。難民条約（「難民の地位に関する1951年の条約」「難民の地位に関する 1967年の議定書」）が最初に制定されて以降、国際情勢の変化、人権概念の発展にともない、国連難民高等弁務官事務所（UNHCR）や欧米諸国は「難民」の解釈を徐々に広げてきています。ご存知のように、カナダでは紛争から逃れた人も難民と認定されうるとしています。日本政府はウクライナの「避難民」を90日間の「短期滞在」の在留資格で入国させ、その後、「特定活動」の在留資格（1年）に切り替え、さらに1年ごとに更新可能としました。一方、「難民」に認定されれば定住者として5年間の在留資格が認められ、永住への道も開けます。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。

上海市・虹口区の一角。区内にはかつて第二次対戦中にユダヤ難民が暮らしていた地域がある。（撮影：2016 年 3 月）

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鹿毛達雄さんを悼む桜楓会の名誉会員でいらっしゃった鹿毛達雄さんが今年2022年1月26日にお亡くなりになりました。享年 86、緩漫に進行する健康悪化と闘いながらの数年でした。深く哀悼の意を表します。鹿毛達雄さんは歴史家、人権活動家として広く知られた方で、1975年にカナダに移住された後、日系コミュニティの中でも新しい移住者などを支えるための清報の提供や具体的な支援など幅広い活動をされ、コミュニティの育成に大いに貢献されてきました。鹿毛さんがバンクーバーに移住者として来られた頃は日系移民100年を祝う一大イベントを控え、日系コミュニティも盛り上がりつつあった頃です。1975年には隣組が組織され、今に続くコミュニティの活動が本格化した時代です。 1877年（明治10年）、日本人として初めてこの地を踏んだ永野菖蔵さんを記念して、1977年に「日系カナダ人100年祭」がスタートしました。またこの10年後の1988年に、時のマルルーニ首相と合意・締結した戦後補償のためのリドレス運動も、この日系 100年祭が恐らく強く後押しをしたのでしよう。同じく1977年に、グレーターバンクーバー移住者の会が設立されました。現在では JCCA（日系カナダ市民協会）の日本語部として吸収されてしまっていますが、当時は日本からやってきた移住者たちが唯一集まることのできる場所がここでした。このグレーターバンクーバー移住者の会も鹿毛さんの努力で発足したものです。それから8年後の 1985年に我らの桜楓会が発足しました。グレーターバンクーバー移住者の会に集う、主に日本から退職者移住をしてきた人たちの相互協力と清報交換、及び親睦などを目的として、移住者の会の会長だった鹿毛さんの発案と後押しでできたものでした。当時はカナダには退職者移住というカテゴリーのビザがありました。その後も日系カナダ人のための戦後補償（リドレス）の運動をはじめ、少数民族の人権擁護の運動にも、鹿毛さんは携わっていかれます。お亡くなりになる直前まで、JCCA（日系カナダ市民協会）の人権委員会の委員長を務めていらっしゃいました。リドレス合意を終えた後、1998年12月には「日系カナダ人の追放」（明石書店）を上梓されています。思えば日系コミュニティの健全な発展や人権擁護にその半生を捧げられた鹿毛達雄さんでした。心からご冥福をお祈りいたします。（会長久保克己） (この記事は桜楓会3月号のニュースレターに記載されました。著者の許可を得て本誌に再掲載しています。）

ケアリー・サキヤマ

JCCA会長からのメッセージ

五月、変わり目ですね！

5月は、未来が垣間見えますよね。より多くの葉たち、鳥どり、花々が現れ、アウトドアやイベントごとも盛りだくさんです！GVJCCAは2022年の5月 1日、8日、15日（全て日曜日）に行われる異文化ウォーキングツアーのスポンサーをしています。我々自身、5月29日のウォーキングツアーの昼食、Knowledge networkの”British Columbia: Untold Story”に参加します。以下のリンクから参加登録してください。

私は、時に自分が無神経で挑戦的であり、人から好かれるか嫌われるかがはっきりしていると自負しています。無神経さは改善中でして（先に謝っておくと、頭は良くありません）、挑戦的な部分は特に気にしていないのですが（考えるのはいいことだと思うので）、好かれるか嫌われるかがはっきり分かれてしまうことには頭を抱えています。最近では誰が何を言おうと、否定的になる人がいますよね。近年欠落しているのは、人に対 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lunch-learn-with-knowledge-networkし”寛大な心を持つ”ことでしょう。特に知り合いや、大事な人、愛する人、 at-cross-cultural-walking-tours-registration-314203229317. もしくは自分を愛している人に対してです。私達と同じように社会的基準は常に変化していて、人はそれぞれ異なった人生のステージに立って東リルエット強制収容所記念庭園でのリニューアル開会式は5月7日のいます。悲しいことに、人種的、社会的地位また性別による不平等は未だ午後1:30です。午後4時のレセプションは満席とのことです。に存在しています。このような不平等により、悪気の無い考えが異なって聞こえてしまうのです。これは私達にとって学べる絶好の機会でしょう。 *日系カナダ人伝統料理クラスが今月から始まります！詳細は、今月の月私は知り合いであれば、それは悪意から来るものではなく、何か想いが報内の広告をご覧ください。席に限りがありますので、お早めのご予約あってだと考えます。この私の意見も、無神経で、挑発的で、好みが二分を。* 化する人が言っているものだと見られるかもしれません。バンクーバーに住む日系カナダ人として、その特権を楽しんでいることも自覚していま *ジョン・ホーガン州首相、ラクナ・シン氏、GVJCCA、隣組そして日系センす。寛大な心を持って聞いていただきありがとうございます。ターより、BC州日系カナダ人の遺産を讃える歴史的宣言式典にご招待致します。どなたからも、4月3日に行われたGVJCCAの大敬老会は、大成功だったとのお声をいただきました！多くのボランティアの皆さん、GVJCCA の役式典は5月21日午前11:00よりライブストリーミングをする予定です。員の皆さん、思い出共有の仲介者の方々、ゲストスピーカーの方々、素実際の式典は、隣組と日系センターで行います。晴らしいエンターテイメント、NNMCCスタッフの皆さん、そしてなによ開場は午前10:15です。り、足を運んでくださり共にお祝いしてくださったお年寄りの皆さまに感謝します。このようなイベントを率いることは、他のどの活動よりも特隣組での参加希望の方は、socialclub@tonarigumi.ca もしくは電話別に感じています。経験者の目を見つめ、希望へと向かう精神を感じた 604-687-2172 ext. 105 のゆうこさんまでご連絡ください。日系センターことは、一生忘れません。今これを書いていることすら、心が揺さぶられでの参加希望の方は、事前登録の必要はありません。る思いです！日系カナダ人強制収容所生存者ソーシャルクラブ（GVJCCAが隣組とスティーブストンコミュニティー協会とのパートナーシップのもと行いました）の初回、4月30日に隣組で昼食と会談を終え、活気に溢れた4月を終えることができました。ソーシャルクラブの初回にとって実に素晴らしい回で、私自身みなさんのお話を聞くことができ、余すところなく楽しみました。もし興味をお持ちでかつ可能ならば、次回は父の日の6月19日にスパニッシュ・バンクでピクニックを予定しています。ソーシャルクラブのゆうこさんへメールsocialclub@tonarigumi.ca 、または 604-687-2172 内線105 までお電話ください。

少し先の話になりますが、パウエル祭は7月30日-31日、TG/GVJCCAのゴルフトーナメントは9月11日です。ここまでお読みいただいた方は、GVJCCAの他の活動に興味があるかもしれません。日系カナダ人コミュニティーへ向けた提案はgvjcca@ gmail.com までご連絡ください。楽しくも、素晴らしい活動をしております。役員も募集中です。さあ、愛する人には寛大な心を持ちましょうね！（翻訳：チェン晶子）

May 5月 2022 47

編集後記 Kazuho Yamamoto

Kazuho Yamamoto

バンクーバー美術館で開催されていた「Yoko Ono: Growing Freedom」展を見てきました（５月１日に展示は終了）。テレビやインターネットで目にしたことのある「Bed-In For Peace」の写真や「War Is Over!」のポスターだけでなく、来場者がハシゴに登って虫眼鏡で天井に展示されている作品を見る「Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting」などを体験しました。その他にも「Wish Tree」を始めとした来場者参加型の作品が多く展示されていました。

その中でも「My Mommy is Beautiful」という作品では部屋の中が来場者の書いた母に対する思いのポストイットで埋め尽くされていました。私も書いて貼りましたが、その部屋に貼られているメッセージを眺めながら母のことを思い出して少しウルッとなりました。そんな経験をしたにも関わらず、今年も母の日は遅ればせながらの連絡、プレゼントの送付でした…お母さん、ごめんなさい〜。「孝行のしたい時には親はなし」という格言があるように、後で後悔のないように両親に親孝行していかないといけないなぁと再度考えさせられました。

「ガスタウンからWinters Hotelが消えた」

ポストイットで埋め尽くされた「My Mommy Is Beautiful」の部屋

KAO (a.k.a. SleeplessKao)

天気がよく気持ちの良い日だ、と窓を開けて部屋で仕事をしていると、いきなり呼吸が苦しくなった。窓の外を見ると黒煙が広がっていた。部屋を飛び出て向かいのビルを見ると燃えてるではないか！私の部屋はBBQでもしたぐらいの煙さなので屋上に行き、新鮮な空気を吸いながら火事を見守る。不幸にも天気の良さに加え、風も強い。水をかけてもかけても火は治らず、風により勢いを増していく。それに伴い黒煙も噴き上がる。

KAO

昼ごろ火がやっと下火になり、ファイアーファイター達は小休止。建物を見るとまだ黒煙が立ち上がっているのだが、私の住んでるアパートの洗面所がファイアーファイターのために解放され、コルドバ通りを通行止めにしてテーブルやチェアを設置。Tim Hortonsのドーナツやコーヒーが用意されブロックパーティみたいになって談笑まで聴こえる。私は（お国柄だな〜）とちょっと微妙な気持ちになる。 1907年にウィンターズ夫人のために建てられたWinters Hotelはカナダ西部の主要な商業の中心地として台頭した煉瓦造りの建物は趣があり私は好きだったのですが、全て取り壊しが決まったと広報からメールで知らされる。たくさんの想いやバリューなものが詰まった建物をそのまま取り壊すというのはなんともいたたまれない想いだ。

GASTOWN Winters Hotel

一階のストアフロントには若いカップルがやっと開業させたかわいいカフェやちょっとお高い眼鏡屋、時計屋さんもあり、お客さまから預かった貴金属がお店の中に置き去りにされる。被害はそれほどなく、さっと入って大事なものを取りに行けそうなのだけど、建物が崩れ落ちると危ないから人が入らないようにポリスが２４時間外で見張っていて誰も近づくことはできない。

ニュースでは建物に侵入して遺灰が入った骨壷とペットのカメを救出しようとした友達がポリスに捕まった話や、高価なギターや楽器が全て燃えてしまったと訴える元住人の話が流れる。火事は２階のキャンドルから火が出たと言うのだけれど、ことの発端はその１週間前の一階にあったレストランでスプリンクラー被害があり消防隊がビル全体のスプリンクラーを止めたことによって１週間後の本番の火事で被害が大きくなったことだ。

焼け出された100人以上の住人の8割が無職で麻薬中毒。ビルの持ち主はそれらを一掃でき保険も出てビジネス的にも良かったのではないかと噂も飛び交う。115年建っていた煉瓦作りの建物が目の前で音を立てて壊されていく。二人の遺体が見つかったためビルの解体作業が一時中止となる。全てはうやむやにされ、真相はわからず、明かされず、目の前に大きな瓦礫の山が見える。悪いものを排除し、古いものを一掃し、新しいキラキラのビルに変わるのは考えようによっては良いことだよと友人は言う。私はというと瓦礫の山を見つめながら、赤い煉瓦の「Winters Hotel」はもうないんだなぁと実感しつつ、一つの歴史が幕を閉じてしまったことを淋しく感じています。亡くなった方のご冥福とウインターズホテルが早く春に変わるように祈ります。

The Bulletin 第64巻5号

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Honouring our People: Breaking the silence

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Bulletin/Geppo May 2022

Articles inside

Matthew Speier – a Note of Appreciation 5 Remembering Dennis Enomoto

JCCA President’s Message 19 NAJC President’s Message

In Memory of Tatsuo Kage 11 GVJCCA Canada Summer Jobs Positions

Yellow Fever Returns to Paueru Gai — Interview with Rick Shiomi