By Terry Watada Intergenerational trauma is real and alive in communities deeply affected by residential schools. You can’t attempt cultural genocide for 140 years, for seven generations – the last of these schools closing their doors in 1996 – and not expect some very real fallout from that. Attawapiskat is a brutal example. Joseph Boyden...
The National Association of Japanese Canadians; the University of Victoria’s Landscapes of Injustice and the Hastings Park Foundation is pleased to announce that this year’s scholarship recipient is Nicole Yakashiro. As a mixed race, fourth generation Japanese-Canadian, Nicole has a personal commitment to the history of Japanese Canadians as well as a scholarly interest in...Continue reading
by David Fujino Uncle Tetsu’s Japanese Matcha Café I boldly took an optimistic walk to Uncle Tetsu’s Japanese Matcha Café at 596 Bay and Dundas Street West (the old Chinatown). I figured that by going to the café section of their business, I’d avoid the famous long line-ups at the parent location — but still...Continue reading
May 16, 2016, by Sachiko Okuda, member, NAJC Heritage Committee In late 2015 the NAJC Heritage Committee invited NAJC organizations and other organizations with a heritage or history component to participate in a national survey, the objectives of which were to paint a picture, in broad strokes, of community-based Nikkei heritage initiatives, and to identify...