Museum outputs

Broken Promises, the museum exhibit.
Grounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice, this exhibit explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home and the struggle for justice of one racially marginalized community. The story unfolds by following seven narrators. Learn about life for Japanese Canadians in Canada before war, the administration of their lives during and after war ends, and how legacies of dispossession continue to this day.

Curators: Sherri Kajiwara (Nikkei National Museum), Leah Best (Royal BC Museum), and Yasmin Amataranga Railton (Landscapes of Injustice Curatorial Postdoc fellow)

Video with reflections by the curators and descendants of the narrators.

Feb 1-Apr 22, 2022: Museum of Surrey, BC

Feb 11-Apr 23, 2023: Canadian Immigration Museum Pier 21, Halifax, NS

May 27-Sep 3, 2023: Galt Museum, Lethbridge AB

Feb 1-Apr 27, 2024: Nanaimo Museum, BC

Mini condensed traveller

Feb 26-May 29, 2022: Touchstone Nelson, Nelson BC

June 7-September 7, 2022: Qualicum Beach Museum, BC

mid September – mid December, 2022: The Langham Cultural Centre, Kaslo BC

For enquiries about booking the museum exhibits

Nichola Ogiwara
Museum Programmer
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby BC  V5E 4M7
T 604.777.7000 ext.109  ogiwara@nikkeiplace.org

Writing Wrongs Digital Museum Exhibit:

Project outputs have been produced to highlight an archive of over 300 letters written in protest by Japanese Canadians to the sale of their possessions without their consent.

Click for Laura Fukumoto reading a letter written by her great-grandfather Toyemon Fukumoto

and  Brent Hirose explores the content of his great-grandfather Tokuji Hirose’s letter

Click to view these and more videos in the Writing Wrongs Digital Museum Exhibit