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The Izumi Family Revisited: Living as Japanese Canadian Exiles in Postwar Japan
Chapter 4—Memories of Their Parents’ Lives in Japan
Read Chapter 3 Memories of Their Mother May After being joined by John and the girls in Kyoto, Ma…

Stan Kirk • Feb. 23, 2025

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Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) British Columbia Canada exiles family histories genealogy Japan Japanese Canadians Kansai Region (Japan) Kinki Region (Japan) Kyoto Prefecture migration Vancouver (B.C.)
Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) British Columbia Canada exiles family histories genealogy Japan Japanese Canadians Kansai Region (Japan) Kinki Region (Japan) Kyoto Prefecture migration Vancouver (B.C.)
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The Izumi Family Revisited: Living as Japanese Canadian Exiles in Postwar Japan
Chapter 3—The Sisters’ Childhood in Japan After Basil’s Return to Canada
Read Chapter 2 Basil’s Return to Canada Perhaps because he was several years older than the girls…

Stan Kirk • Feb. 16, 2025

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British Columbia Canada exiles family histories genealogy identity Japan Japanese Canadians Kansai Region (Japan) Kinki Region (Japan) Kyoto Prefecture migration Vancouver (B.C.) Vernon Wakayama Prefecture
British Columbia Canada exiles family histories genealogy identity Japan Japanese Canadians Kansai Region (Japan) Kinki Region (Japan) Kyoto Prefecture migration Vancouver (B.C.) Vernon Wakayama Prefecture
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The Eto Family History as Postwar Exiles to Japan
Chapter 5—Sisters’ Memories of Readjustment to Canada
Read Chapter 4 Having spent 10 years in postwar Japan and adjusting to life and the culture there,…

Stan Kirk • Jan. 5, 2025

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British Columbia Canada families Japanese Americans Japanese Canadians repatriation Vancouver (B.C.)
British Columbia Canada families Japanese Americans Japanese Canadians repatriation Vancouver (B.C.)
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The Eto Family History as Postwar Exiles to Japan
Chapter 4—Return to Canada
Read Chapter 3 The return of the various members (except Tadasu) of the Eto family to Canada seems…

Stan Kirk • Dec. 29, 2024

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British Columbia Canada Japan Japanese Canadians Kumamoto Prefecture Kyushu reparations Vancouver (B.C.)
British Columbia Canada Japan Japanese Canadians Kumamoto Prefecture Kyushu reparations Vancouver (B.C.)
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The Eto Family History as Postwar Exiles to Japan
Chapter 1—Family Roots, Life in Canada Before Exile
Family Roots: Kumamoto, Kyushu Sunao Eto, the Eto family’s father, was born on March 15, 1886, to …

Stan Kirk • Dec. 8, 2024

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Angler (Ontario) Bay Farm camp British Columbia Canada Canadian internment camps Japan Kumamoto Prefecture Kyushu Ontario Petawawa repatriation Slocan Extension internment camps Vancouver (B.C.) World War II camps
Angler (Ontario) Bay Farm camp British Columbia Canada Canadian internment camps Japan Kumamoto Prefecture Kyushu Ontario Petawawa repatriation Slocan Extension internment camps Vancouver (B.C.) World War II camps
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30th Anniversary Celebration at New Denver’s Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre
New Denver in World War II At the behest of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950)…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Sept. 22, 2024

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British Columbia Canada Japanese Canadians Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre World War II World War II camps
British Columbia Canada Japanese Canadians Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre World War II World War II camps
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Author Leslie Shimotakahara's Novels Offer Literary Passageways to Places in the Past
TORONTO — Award-winning author Leslie Shimotakahara transports readers to another time and place th…

Kelly Fleck • April 30, 2024

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British Columbia Canada fiction Japanese Canadians Leslie Shimotakahara literature logging novels Ontario Queen Charlotte Islands Sisters of the Spruce (book) Toronto
British Columbia Canada fiction Japanese Canadians Leslie Shimotakahara literature logging novels Ontario Queen Charlotte Islands Sisters of the Spruce (book) Toronto
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Who Was The First Japanese Immigrant to Canada?
Tomekichi Homma (Part 2) — Early Activist
Read Part 1 (Tomekichi Homma) >> What did the village of Steveston look like in the 1880s when the…

Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 22, 2024

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British Columbia Canada generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration naturalized citizen Steveston Tomekichi Homma
British Columbia Canada generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration naturalized citizen Steveston Tomekichi Homma
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Who Was The First Japanese Immigrant to Canada?
Tomekichi Homma (Part 1) — Early Activist
If Nagano did not arrive in 1877, who might have been the first immigrant from Japan to put down …

Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 21, 2024

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British Columbia Canada elections generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration naturalized citizen political science Steveston Tomekichi Homma voting
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Broken Promises: A Japanese-Canadian History Exhibit in Shiga, Japan—Part 2
Read Part 1 >> From November 1, 2023 to February 25, 2024, the Shiga Peace Museum in Higashiomi, S…

Masumi Izumi • March 13, 2024

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British Columbia Burnaby Canada Japan Japanese Canadians migration Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Shiga Prefecture Wakayama Prefecture
British Columbia Burnaby Canada Japan Japanese Canadians migration Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Shiga Prefecture Wakayama Prefecture
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