Project Activity
My summer at the Nikkei National Museum (or, the life of the archives) Kaitlin Findlay
To get to the Nikkei National Museum, I took the skytrain and then city paths that led me around the back of the concrete building to its sun-filled atrium. Always a little late, I'd catch my breath after walking up the stairs to the Fuji room, where summer interns...
Part 2 Of Store and The Community
Ebisuzaki store's flyer, 1940. Morishita Family Collection. NNM 2011.79.3.316 Part two of the series, Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians, by Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective Of store and the...
“Beyond Sorry: Japanese Canadian Redress, Research and Historical Justice in the Age of Apology”
Lecture by Prof. Jordan Stanger-Ross, University of Victoria Monday, February 12, 2018 4:00-5:30pm (TELUS Centre 134) TELUS Centre Suite 201 University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2R3 Reception to follow. All are welcome. RSVP ptjc@ualberta.ca The Prince...
Settler Colonialism and Japanese Canadian History
Laura Ishiguro, Nicole Yakashiro, and Will Archibald Report prepared for Landscapes of Injustice September 2017 I. Executive summary This report’s central contention is that we cannot fully understand, explain, and represent the history of Japanese Canadian people in...
LoI Public Lecture and Presentation Vancouver Maritime Museum January 14, 2018
Landscapes of Injustice Public Lecture and Presentation Vancouver Maritime Museum in association with the Lost Fleet Exhibition 1-3 pm Sunday, January 14, 2018 Landscapes of Injustice researchers will present a lecture and other research findings related to the forced...
Recording of Pamela Sugiman Lecture at the Royal BC Museum January 28, 2018
Japanese-Canadian fishing boasts seized at Annieville. BC Archives C-07293 Please click on this link for a full length recording of Pamela Sugiman's presentation. Recorded by Chorong Kim, edited by Dave Lang Acts of Kindness and Complicity: The silence of bystanders...
Japanese Problem -Live theatre presentation Victoria
a site responsive play by Universal Limited Special Victoria presentation - Monday, December 4, 2017 Queenswood/Arbutus Room Cadboro Commons, University of Victoria Reserve your tickets through Eventbrite. Free but registration needed....
Fall 2017 Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter
Message from the Project Director, Jordan Stanger-Ross This year I’ve been invited to give the keynote address for the Kristallnacht commemoration in Victoria, when my own Jewish community, and others across the world, remember the terror of November 9-10, 1938, when...
75th Anniversary Book Launch – Nikkei National Museum
75th Anniversary Book Launch Please join us to celebrate recent Japanese-Canadian publications. Saturday, November 25, 2017 2-4pm Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Ellipse...
Letters of outrage reflect injustice to Japanese Canadians
Some of 300 letters that UVic historian Jordan Stanger-Ross came across while researching at Library and Archives Canada. Photo: Chorong Kim. UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA NEWS The details reveal the human cost: a Singer sewing machine, heirloom china and a young girl’s doll...
Bridging Communities in the Prairies by Amber Ali
Bridging Communities in the Prairies Learning from the Snow Country Prison Healing of Former Interned Japanese and Teaching Lived Experiences Amber Ali At the end of August, and right before the start of my third year of classes at the University of Winnipeg, I had...
Students go to the archive for podcasts on the dispossession of Japanese Canadians
Storytelling is vital to Landscapes of Injustice. Soon, we will be in the Knowledge Mobilization phase of our project, when we translate our hundreds of hours of research into communication: databases, teaching modules, websites, and museum exhibits. Having examined...
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter Summer 2017
Message from the Project Director, Jordan Stanger-Ross On Tuesday, July 25, I attended a long meeting. It ran overtime, didn’t accomplish a number of its aims, but it left me very excited. It was, in many ways, what the next phase of the project is all about. I was...
The Tree Trunk Can Be My Pillow by Jack Kagetsu-New publication
Author Tadashi (Jack) Kagetsu (1931-2006) was the youngest son of “outstanding Japanese Canadian” and prominent Nikkei timber industrialist Eikichi Kagetsu. In The Tree Trunk Can Be My Pillow, Jack details the fascinating life and accomplishments of his father, and he...
Witness To Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians-New book
Witness To Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross and Pamela Sugiman A Japanese Canadian participated in the government’s destruction of his own community. How should he be remembered? When the...
Oral History cluster poster 2016
As part of the Landscapes of Injustice poster session at the 2016 Spring Institute this video was produced to communicate the cluster's progress. https://youtu.be/F8P17Iw2CNw
Nicole Yakashiro on CBC’s All Points West with Robyn Burns: Full interview
Listen to Nicole Yakashiro, the Landscapes of Injustice and NAJC Hide Hyodo-Shimizu Research Fellow, discuss her public history display exploring her family's links to the dispossession of Japanese Canadians. Nicole's display was part of the Landscapes of...
The Right To Remain Public Screening with Greg Masuda
Join filmmaker Greg Masuda for a screening of his CBC documentary The Right To Remain. Thursday, April 27, 2017 Cinecenta Uvic Student Union Building 3:00 pm folllowed by Q & A. Free and open to the public.
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter Spring 2017
Spring 2017 Newsletter - March 13/2017 Message from the Project Director Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Spring is a time of excitement on Landscapes of Injustice, though I say this without the usual gesture to birds-chirping and new love. Rather, spring is when we do our...
Memories of Dispossession Panel: Full video
https://youtu.be/kztfRLwNXFA The continuation of an on-going panel series, Landscapes of Injustice hosted 'Memories of Dispossession and Internment' at the Vancouver Public Library on January 14, 2017. Moderated by Michael Abe and Vivian Rygnestad, the panel includes...