It’s a Canadian play,’ says playwright Hiro Kanagawa, who adapted the Mark Sakamoto memoir about his grandparents during WWII ...

In Hiro Kanagawa’s play, a community of Japanese-Canadians must come to terms with a home country that will no longer ...

Leaning forward in her wheelchair to look over a massive photo album, Sue Kai delves into memories from decades ago. Kai, 96, and her son, Brian, pore over snapshots of her past, some dating ...

On the cover of Ken Adachi’s The Enemy That Never Was, the first book written about the Japanese Canadians and the wartime internment, is a close-up of a little girl’s face. She is only 5 or 6 ...

When John Horgan talked about BC’s historic racism, he failed to mention Japanese Canadians. Here’s why it matters. Maryka Omatsu is a judge, national advisor to the National Association of ...

It's one of 300 such letters discovered in a federal archive written by Japanese Canadians protesting the sale of their homes, businesses and heirlooms while held in internment camps during the ...

In all, more than 20,000 Japanese people—including a majority who were naturalized citizens or Canadian by birth—were forced to move to these remote internment camps. The government separated ...

Although the forced wartime exile has historically been referred to as “internment,” many Japanese Canadians have been debating the use of the term. The growing preference is to refer to the ...

Nomoto: A BC tragedy, a new documentary premiering at the New West Film Festival 2022 by filmmaker Chad Townsend, tells the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, a Japanese-Canadian man whose internment during the ...

The Japanese Canadian Internment Camps Trail is a self-guided tour that will connect the internment sites dispersed through ...