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Documenting Nikkei Histories
Documenting Nikkei Stories Panel discussion with Film Screening, The Orange Story. Sunday, January 15, 2017 1-5 pm Free admission Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Burnaby, BC. Event description In this event, filmmakers from Canada and the United States...
Story of Vancouver Asahi translation book launch
New translation of book about Vancouver’s legendary Asahi baseball team launches December 17, 2pm at Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Story of Vancouver Asahi, a Legend in Baseball By Norio Goto Translated by Masaki Watanabe 242 pages “What I really wanted...
Congratulations to Dr. Heather Read
Dr. Heather Read worked for the Oral History research cluster at Ryerson University in 2015, under the guidance of Dr. Pamela Sugiman. Heather is an experienced researcher who explores intersections between material culture and identity using oral history interviews....
Greg Miyanaga: Reflecting on Loss in Landscapes of Injustice
By Kate Jaimet What is value? What is loss? Those are the questions that Greg Miyanaga wants students to ponder in his Landscapes of Injustice project, which addresses the dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Miyanaga — who won the 2006...
NAJC AGM 2016
The National Association of Japanese Canadians Annual General Meeting took place in September in Calgary, Alberta. The NAJC and host organization, the Calgary Japanese Community Association must be commended for a very smoothly run program with excellent content....
New Community Council member: Terry Watada
The Community Council is pleased to welcome Terry Watada to our group. Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Terry has been actively involved with the Japanese-Canadian community across Canada since the 1970s. He is a theatre performer, musician, speaker, and human...
This summer at the Powell Street Festival and Nikkei Matsuri
This August marked the 40th annual Powell Street Festival in Vancouver’s historic Japanese Canadian neighborhood. Landscapes of Injustice tabled booths in the indoor and outdoor venues, spoke to dozens of festival-goers, and presented the project’s headway since the...
Notes from a Research Assistant: Josie Gray
Over the summer, I worked in the Victoria branch of the Community Records Cluster as a data encoding and research assistant. Under the supervision of Stewart Arneil, Ariel Merriam and I learned how to use XML (Extensible Markup Language). Over the course of the...
Part 1 Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians -Eiji Okawa
The Wealth of My Home(Wagaya no tomi) poem (Morishita Family Collection, 2011.79.3.3-1, Nikkei National Museum) Part 1 in a series from the Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians Eiji Okawa and the Landscapes of Injustice...
Ryerson Today Podcast- Meet Dean of Arts Pam Sugiman
This is from the Ryerson Today podcast looking at the people, ideas and culture of Ryerson University. With writer Will Sloan. "Pam Sugiman's recent appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Arts is the latest high point in a distinguished career in education. After 15...
A New Moon Over Tohoku – Victoria screening with filmmaker Linda Ohama and cast members
On Thursday, October 6, at 2:30 pm at Cinecenta at the Student Union Building at the University of Victoria, filmmaker Linda Ohama will be in attendance at the screening of her new film, A New Moon Over Tohoku. A New Moon Over Tohoku After spending two and a half...
Milk and Momotaro: We’re Canadian, Aren’t We? By Sally Ito
“Surely I cried sometimes,” I said to Aunt Emily when she told me what a quiet child I’d been. She shook her head. “I can’t remember that you ever did. You never spoke. You never smiled. You were so ‘majime.’ What a serious baby – fed on milk and Momotaro.” ...
National Association of Japanese Canadians AGM and National Conference 2016 Calgary
National Association of Japanese Canadians 2016 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND NATIONAL CONFERENCE September 8-11, 2016 Commemoration Banquet September 10, 2016 Sheraton Suites Calgary Eau Claire, Calgary, Alberta The Calgary Japanese Community Association and the CJCA...
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association Call for Papers
The CHA Annual Meeting will take place May 29-31, 2017 at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. CALL FOR PAPERS: From Far and Wide: The Next 150 The 150th anniversary of Confederation provides an opportunity to revisit the nation-building negotiations and...
Eikichi Kagetsu Collection- Media coverage
Director|Curator Sherri Kajiwara and research archivist Linda Reid from the Nikkei National Museum (NNM) were travelled down to North Carolina on an archival mission after they were connected with Kay Kagetsu, daughter-in-law of the lumber baron Eikichi Kagets. There...
Province seeks nominations for Japanese Canadian historical sites
Do you know a historic place associated with the history of the Japanese Canadian community in British Columbia that is important to you or your community? If you do, now is your chance to nominate it to be considered for formal recognition of its heritage value. The...
Canada’s Honour Roll- James Walker appointment to the Order of Canada
Congratulations to James W. St. G. Walker on his appointment to the Order of Canada. As one of Canada’s leading voices on the history of racial justice, James Walker, 75, has spent much of his career studying the profound impact of black Canadians on the country’s...
Media Release: Acquisition of pre-war Japanese-Canadian property restores a stolen history
NNMCC Research Archivist Linda Kawamoto Reid displays a scroll after donning protective gloves to handle the historic material. Photo credit: Kaitlin Findlay with Nikkei National Museum archival collection. UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA MEDIA RELEASE June 29, 2016...
The story behind the Kagetsu collection
Jack and Kay Kagetsu stand with a friend. Kagetsu's youngest son, Jack researched his father's history over the course of a decade. Photo credit: Kaitlin Findlay with the Nikkei National Museum archival collection. Jack Kagetsu is responsible for amassing this...
The Kagetsu collection goes into the deep freeze
NNM archivist Linda Kawamoto Reid stands beside items from the newly acquired Kagetsu collection. The items are wrapped in plastic to avoid the spread of contaminants to other archival material. Photo credit: Kaitlin Findlay with the Nikkei National Museum archival...