May 23, 2022 The National Association of Japanese Canadians National Executive Board is remembering one year ago when we heard the heartbreaking news of 215 (and now believed to be a higher number of) unmarked graves of children near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Our thoughts are with all survivors of residential schools and...
108 years ago in 1914 the Komagata Maru ( a Japanese ship with 376 South Asians. Note: India was a part of the British Empire at that time.) were denied entry to Vancouver. In 2008, the Anniversaries of Change, a collective of community cultural groups, Indigenous, academia and labour groups, commemorated the racist incident &...
Ken Adachi in his book, The Enemy That Never Was, described how advance parties of Nisei and Issei men were sent to the interior towns to repair vacant houses and buildings to receive the uprooted Japanese Canadians from the west coast. However, the preparation wasn’t planned well by the Security Commission and the influx of...Continue reading
by Lorene Oikawa 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...Continue reading
ロリン・オイカワ ５月はアジア文化遺産月間です。アジア諸国（東アジア、南アジア、西アジア、中央アジア、東南アジア）の文化を知るよい機会です。
May is Asian Heritage Month. As part of explorASIAN, the National Association of Japanese Canadians is hosting an online screening of Migration + Resilience = BC: An Untold History Friday, May 27, 2022 6pm Pacific | 7pm Mountain | 8pm Central | 9pm Eastern Join filmmaker Kevin Eastwood and Japanese Canadian storytellers Mas Fukawa and...
The NAJC heard the sad news that Norman Mineta died. He was the first Asian American cabinet member who served both President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush. He served as the United States Secretary of Transportation, the only Democratic Cabinet Secretary in the Bush administration. His role was an important one especially during...Continue reading
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...