Japanese Canadians

Cindy Mochizuki as she hand-cranks one of six herring automatons that will be displayed in her ‘Tides and Moons: Herring Capital’ exhibit at the Nanaimo Art Gallery, opening Oct. 22. (Mandy Moraes/News Bulletin)

Exhibit uses art and storytelling to explore Nanaimo’s history as a ‘herring capital’

Cindy Mochizuki’s ‘Tides and Moons’ featured at Nanaimo Art Gallery starting Oct. 22

 

Local group Yamabiko Taiko of Kelowna performed at the 80th anniversary event, and has been coming to Greenwood since 2018. (Photo: Kayna Murakami Prisnie.)

Event marks 80th anniversary of Japanese Canadian internment which revived Greenwood

‘The internment camp morphed into a community:’ survivor reflects on camaraderie in town

 

Qualicum Beach High School class of 1932. Shima Umemoto is sixth from left in front row. (Photo courtesy of Qualicum Beach Museum Archives)

‘Broken Promises’ explores Vancouver Island’s dark chapter of Japanese mistreatment

Qualicum Beach Museum exhibit explores dispossession, internment of Japanese-Canadians during WW2

 

Group photo from Ucluelet’s gathering on May 21, from left: Bob and Vi Mundy, Ted Oye, Ellen Kimoto, Suzie Corlazzoli, Dave McIntosh, Bruce Oye, Josie Osborne, and in front, Mary Kimoto. (Barbara Schramm photo)

Island Japanese-Canadians react to B.C.’s $100M pledge to address wartime internment

“It was really important this event happened while there are still survivors left”

Group photo from Ucluelet’s gathering on May 21, from left: Bob and Vi Mundy, Ted Oye, Ellen Kimoto, Suzie Corlazzoli, Dave McIntosh, Bruce Oye, Josie Osborne, and in front, Mary Kimoto. (Barbara Schramm photo)
About 50 people gathered in Hope on Saturday, May 21, 2022 to hear Premier John Horgan announce $100 million in funding to honour Japanese-Canadians and to “continue the healing for generations to come,” Horgan said. The livestream broadcast of the announcement in Hope was hosted by the Tashme Historical Society. Folks gathered at the Hope Recreation Centre about 20 kilometres northwest of the former Tashme Internment Camp. At 1,200 acres in size, Tashme was Canada’s largest Japanese-Canadian internment site of the Second World War and, at its height, was home to 2,644 people. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

B.C. commits $100 million to support Japanese Canadians interned in World War II

Funding will go to health and wellness programs for survivors, memorials and public education

About 50 people gathered in Hope on Saturday, May 21, 2022 to hear Premier John Horgan announce $100 million in funding to honour Japanese-Canadians and to “continue the healing for generations to come,” Horgan said. The livestream broadcast of the announcement in Hope was hosted by the Tashme Historical Society. Folks gathered at the Hope Recreation Centre about 20 kilometres northwest of the former Tashme Internment Camp. At 1,200 acres in size, Tashme was Canada’s largest Japanese-Canadian internment site of the Second World War and, at its height, was home to 2,644 people. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
Keiko Limshue, Seven Potatoes Society vice-president, shovels soil during a planting ceremony for 12 Japanese cherry blossom trees in Bowen Park. Society and Nanaimo city council members Robert Hewer, left, Yumiko Kakutani, Tami Hirasawa, Leonard Krog, Don Bonner, Brian Sugiyama, Jim Turley, Zeni Maartman and Ian Thorpe also took part in the ceremony. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)

Japanese-Canadian Society plants flowering cherry trees in Nanaimo’s Bowen Park

Seven Potatoes Society to plant 100 cherry blossom trees around Nanaimo

Keiko Limshue, Seven Potatoes Society vice-president, shovels soil during a planting ceremony for 12 Japanese cherry blossom trees in Bowen Park. Society and Nanaimo city council members Robert Hewer, left, Yumiko Kakutani, Tami Hirasawa, Leonard Krog, Don Bonner, Brian Sugiyama, Jim Turley, Zeni Maartman and Ian Thorpe also took part in the ceremony. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)