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Japanese Canadian National Museum Newsletter ISSN#1203-9017 Summer 2003, Vol. 8, No. 2 A Valuable Addition to the Japanese Canadian National Museum Archives by Midge Ayukawa The NEW CANADIAN— Most of us senior Canadian Nikkei have vivid recollections of its birth, its heyday, and, sadly, its gradual demise, and final passing. It was founded by UBC graduates Peter Shinobu Hayashi, Edward Ouchi, Kunio Shimizu, and Thomas Shoyama, with Peter and Tommy as co-editors. Since its first issue in November 1938, it had been our voice, our guide, and our source of community news. The Japanese Canadian National Museum is happy to announce that thirty-one bound volumes of the original copies, covering most of the years from 1942 to 1977, are now deposited with them. Our gratitude is extended to Museum staffer, Daien Ide, examining the newly acquired, bound volumes of the Addie (Tsuyuki) Kobayashi of NEW CANADIAN. (Stan Fukawa photo, 2003) Richmond Hill, Ontario, for facilitating bound volumes had been borrowed or return them with no questions the donation of volumes 1942-1944 by researchers and never returned. asked. They are precious and the by Thomas K. Shoyama and volumes If anyone knows of these missing Museum would like to complete its 1945-1977 from the estate of her volumes, please contact the JCNM, Continued on page 2 mother, the late Chiyo (Tsuyuki) Contents Umezuki, second wife of the late Takaichi Umezuki. A Valuable Addition to the Japanese Canadian Museum ArchivesContinued on page 12 Jitaro Charles Tanaka and Sumiko Suga Tanaka Collection 2 In a direct communication, My Training on the Koto 4 Addie said that the donated volumes Otowa Ryu Japanese Dance Group 5 Nishikawa Dance Group 6 had been in the hands of her mother An Inventory of Steveston Judo Club Photographs 7 after her husband, Takaichi Umezuki, Resources on Internment 8 passed away in 1980 at the age of A Legacy of Stories: Storytelling in My Life 9 JCNM Manager/Curator’s Report 10 eighty-two. The books had been Addendum to JCNM President’s Report 2001-2003 11 borrowed by a scholar in Japan and, Museum Formally Merges with NNHCS 12 after some fifteen years, have finally REVIEW-NFB Documentary, “Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story” 13 Museum Celebrates Successful Event 13 been retrieved through Addie’s REVIEW-SUTEBUSUTON: A Japanese Village on the BC Coast 14 persistent efforts. There are a few Kinzie Tanaka, Political Activist, Excerpts from a Memoir 15 gaps in the collection, since some Unlucky Sugar Beet Workers 18

1 collection. The JCNM can be 1991), a certain person approached Announcements contacted at 120-6688 Southoaks Umezuki and offered a $140 per Crescent, Burnaby BC V5E 4M7. month position with the Steveston Phone: (604) 777-8000. Fishermen’s Association. T.U.

Launch of Community Memories The NEW CANADIAN turned him down saying that he of Virtual Museum Canada was the only Japanese Canadian needed to stay with the MINSHU NNMHC newspaper that was allowed to since he was afraid that it would likely May 30, 2003, 10:30-12:30 AM publish during the wartime turmoil. not be able to carry on without him. It was published as a weekly in Kaslo, His wages at that time were not Stories from our Past using the printing plant of the always reliable $40. The story-teller NNMHC June-December 2003 KASLO KOOTENIAN and was the noted that the impoverished T.U. main source of information on was wearing mismatched shoes—a

NNMHCS Week Government directives and brown one and a black one. NNMHC community news. I recall how my Addie Kobayashi September 13-20, 2003 friends and I would pour over every emphasized that the volumes were September 13th - Celebration Dinner September 20th - Nikkei Festival issue, seeking news about our friends donated in memory of both Takaichi scattered in other camps and in farms, Umezuki and his first wife, Chiyo towns, and cities across the country. (Masui) Umezuki. It is a tribute to Although the NEW the second Mrs. Umezuki (Tsuyuki) CANADIAN had been an English that her family is following through language paper since its inception, the on her wish to honour the first Mrs. powers-to-be realized that it required Umezuki who made many personal Nikkei Images is published by a Japanese language section too. and family sacrifices in supporting her the Japanese Canadian Takaichi Umezuki who had been the husband’s selfless dedication to the National Museum editor of MINSHU [DAILY Japanese Canadian labour movement WORKER] was recruited to be the and the community. Japanese editor and later became the Perhaps, one day, a scholar Editorial Board: publisher. “T.U.”, as he became will pore over the wartime issues Stanley Fukawa, Grace Hama, known to the Nisei, had been the self- (1942-1945) so carefully preserved Frank Kamiya, Elizabeth Nunoda, sacrificing, dedicated editor of the by Tommy Shoyama and write some Mitsuo Yesaki, Carl Yokota labour daily since 1933 after the learned treatise of the turmoil of that charismatic Etsu Suzuki suddenly left period. He has, at times, talked about Subscription to Nikkei Images Canada. Suzuki had been the how he had to be constantly wary of is free with your annual inspiration of the Japanese Labour the censors who checked every issue membership to NNMHCS: Family $25 Union and had begun the paper in before it went to press. And, Individual $20 March 1924. According to a story in perhaps, some others will study the Senior/Student $15 a book about Japanese Canadian postwar years and note the gradual Senior Couple $20 newspapers written by Japanese transition and changes that took Non-profit Association $50 scholars (Shimpo Mitsuru, Tamura place in our community. Corporate $100 Norio, Shiramizu Shigehiko. Kanada Both Umezuki and Shoyama $1 per copy for non-members no nihongo shinbun [Japanese were appointed to the Order of Language Newspapers in Canada], Canada in recognitions of their many NNMH CENTRE 2nd Ed. Tokyo: PMC Shuppansha, contribution to Canada. a 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, B.C., V5E 4M7 Jitaro Charles Tanaka and Sumiko Suga Canada tel: (604) 777-8000 Tanaka Collection by Stan Fukawa fax: (604) 777-7001 In September 2002, Charles Dunn and Dr. Shirley Ikeda, his [email protected] K. Tanaka dropped by the museum brother, Ron, and his cousin, Haruji www.jcnm.ca to present some very valuable papers Suga. that had been compiled by his late At the beginning of the war parents. He did so on behalf of his with Japan, Jitaro Charlie Tanaka and family including his sisters, Helen Ippei Nishio were appointed as 2 advisors to and representatives of the Spanish Consulate, disposition of assets of enemy aliens, instructions on how which under the Geneva Convention was charged with to cope with the postal censors, news of tours by the the task of protecting the human rights of Japanese aliens Spanish Consul to detention facilities, and the creation of in Canada. This placed the elder Tanaka in a critical organizations by Japanese Canadians. There are four position to observe and note what was happening to the pages of single-spaced notes on legal-size paper on the Japanese, both Canadian and foreign-born. Black Dragon Enquiry in late 1942 in which the Security In the words of his son: Commission delved into the rumoured wrongdoings of The materials were compiled by Jitaro and Etsuji Morii, with nothing more than hearsay being Sumiko, generally as the events unfolded and are reported by informants. The elder Tanaka has a 6-page, as follows: single-spaced piece on legal-size paper “Evacuation 1. A typewritten “diary” of the events that took Chaos – 1942” depicting the government handling of the place after December 7, 1941 concerning the internees. There is also a 1974 article from the Japanese people who were living primarily in Continental Times written by J.C. Tanaka on the Nisei British Columbia. It consists of pages numbered Mass Evacuation Group. The group opposed the breaking from 1 to 177 except for one page (#46), which is up of families as an integral part of the government missing, two pages numbered 121, and one page internment program. between 148 & 149, which is not numbered. There The fact that J.C. Tanaka had played first base are also pages 1 through 12 with the heading for the 1926 Terminal League champion Asahi baseball “National selective service civilian regulation” team is an intriguing sidelight to this collection. After and also a 34-page document, copyright 1958 by spending one year with the Asahi, he had to devote all the National Japanese Canadian Citizens his energies to starting up his furniture manufacturing Association, containing a short history of business. Japanese Canadians in British Columbia. 2. Two “scrapbooks” consisting of newspaper An Item from the Tanaka Collection clippings beginning from February 26. 1942, as Instructions for Japanese people and designed to aid the well as many other typewritten articles, notes, and Postal Censors, thus speeding up delivery of censored letters. Some letters of note are: mail, has been issued by the Canadian Postal Censorship a) an original hand-written letter dated in Vancouver. Nov.21/42 addressed to our father from the 1. Write in English whenever possible. Japanese, Spanish Consulate in Vancouver. being an uncommon language in Canada cannot be b) a letter dated September 15, 1972 from handled as expeditiously. Tsuneharu Gonnami, Librarian, Asian Studies 2. If correspondence must be in Japanese, it should Library at U.B.C. be confined to essential news and information, avoiding c) a hand written letter dated Oct. 10, inconsequential gossip. A concise letter gets first 1975 from our Aunt, June Tanaka, to her brother- consideration from your correspondent as well as from in- law (our father). the Censor. d) a letter dated January 12, 1978 from 3. Mark on the covers of letters “Written in English” Ann Sunahara, author of the book titled “ The or “Written in Japanese” as the case may be, to eliminate Politics of Racism”. unnecessary handling in the Censorship. 3. An original document written by the Nisei 4. Do not slow up the Censor’s reading by using Mass Evacuation Group and signatures primarily unusual symbols. He postpones examination of such in Japanese by members of the Group. items in favour of correspondence written in the 4. One document consisting of two pages conventional style. written entirely in Japanese. 5. Do not employ Occidental names in addressing Our father was a member of the 1926 Terminal mail intended for Japanese nationals. Such items thereby League Champions and appears in Pat Adachi’s become non-transmissable. book, “Asahi: A Legend in Baseball”, along with 6. Do not enclose in envelopes addressed to his brothers, George and Herbie and brothers-in- Occidentals correspondence to be passed on to Japanese law Harry Miyasaki, Ty, Kaz and Kiyoshi Suga. nationals. This places upon the Occidental the duty of reporting your action to government authorities. The information in the collection includes statistics 7. Do not be responsible for unnecessary delay to on the numbers of people in various forms of detention the mail of your countrymen by hampering in any manner and at specific detention centres, clippings on the a the operation of the Censorship. 3 My Training on the Koto by Sho-ko-to Kobayashi Teresa My first formal introduction me was as follows: sensei would play to the koto was on June 6, 1964, at the composition for me once, and the age of six in Hiroshima, Japan. then I was told, “practice the rest This followed a cultural belief that one and listen to other student’s should start learning the arts on that lessons”. Having sensei in the same day and that age in order to prosper house 24 hours a day was and was in the arts. However, my introduction not a blessing. Whenever I practiced, to koto music had actually started sensei was always within earshot, years earlier, since my mother, and, of course, I would know Master Miyoko Kobayashi, started immediately if I played the wrong teaching and performing koto for note! Mind you, with her credentials several years prior to my birth. in koto and also the tea ceremony, Although our home was always filled flower arrangement, shigin, with the sounds of the koto and shamisen and buyo, she was the best shamisen, my primary interest was source of advice and coaching. in Japanese classical buyo (dance), By 1976, my interest in the to which I was also introduced at the koto was becoming a priority, and my age of six. I commenced buyo lessons parents presented me with an in Vancouver with Nagasaki-sensei opportunity to go to Japan to further Kobayashi Teresa playing the koto. who taught the Hanayagi-style. It my studies in the koto, shamisen and (Kobayashi Teresa photo, date wasn’t until many years later that I dance during the summer until my unknown) informed my mother that I would take return to Vancouver to attend U.B.C. continued on to Tokyo for a month part in one of her performances. Upon contacting sensei’s teacher where I was uchi-deshi at the home Thus began my pursuit of playing the Yonemaru Sensei, in Hiroshima, of a shakuhachi master, which koto. Japan, to state the intention of having improved my skills in performing with Having heard, for many me study in Tokyo, I was advised that different styles of shakuhachi years, the melodies and music lessons prior to going to Tokyo I must first playing. I also studied koto with a of the students who attended the go to Hiroshima to study under master of the Miyagi-style of koto okeiko-ba (studio), I had essentially Yonemaru Sensei. Being the Mago playing, dance with a teacher of the learned how to play the basic pieces deshi (grand student - a student’s Hanayagi-style, and shamisen from from memory. I was especially student), Yonemaru Sensei stated a master who was a student of the proficient in mastering the passages that she wanted to make sure that I then “Human Treasure” that students had encountered the had the techniques and basics well (exceptionally talented artists are most difficulty with because these in hand before I went to study bestowed with this title in Japan). It were the passages that were taught elsewhere; this was to ensure that I was also during this trip that I was and practiced the most during their had obtained my Sensei’s permitted to be examined by the lessons. Because I had not acquired endorsement. directors of the Kansai Ongaku formal training, I was neither able to The two months in Shishinkai Music Conservatory and read the notation nor did I use the Hiroshima were intense! Becoming was granted a teaching certificate. correct fingering patterns to play the an uchi-deshi (live-in student) of Looking back on this period compositions. Initially, having found Yonemaru Sensei meant practicing of my life, although the work was that koto playing was “easy”, I the koto from my waking moment until hard and intense, I don’t regret it for forged ahead by studying under the bed-time with minimal breaks to eat a moment, nor would I change a thing. direction of Sensei. Lessons were my meals. Sensei would “kindly” If given the chance, I would jump at not conducted in the usual manner. bring my meals to the okeiko-ba so the opportunity to be able to delve They took place whenever Sensei that I wouldn’t have to go far and into that concentrated atmosphere had time to teach me, and although waste time away from the koto. The again! the roles of teacher and student were odd occasion when I would go out After returning to Vancouver, respected in the okeiko-ba, the was frowned upon as time spent I continued to study, learn and special teaching method designed for frivolously. After Hiroshima I practice and also made several trips

4 back to Japan to learn new try to copy her playing. performing and studying until my techniques and participate in As for the Vancouver Koto fingers stop moving. Hopefully, my performances. Over the years I have No Kai, although not very active at daughter, Yume’s, interest in koto will had the opportunity to perform the present, it will remain alive and keep growing. For her, my teaching throughout Canada, the U.S.A. and well. I presently hold the Master title method is to play a composition once Japan, live and via radio and of Sho-Ko-To. Because of my and then she is on her own. Sound television. I ceased dancing after 27 mother’s accomplishments, my familiar? a years but continue to practice and school has been recognized by the perform on the koto; 2004 will mark Kansai Ongaku Shishinkai as the Teresa is married to Yoshihiro Tabo the fortieth year I have done so! Due Canadian Shibu (branch). Her and has one daughter, Yume to requests for lessons, I am again accomplishments included her Krystle. Teresa is a Sansei, the contemplating whether or not to dedication to the koto and the daughter of Yutaka Kobayashi, a actively start teaching. Although teachings of the Shishinkai. She also Nisei, and Miyoko, an Issei born Kobayashi Sensei, my loving mother furthered the introduction of the koto in Hiroshima. Her parents returned and mentor, says otherwise, I will in North America through her to Canada in 1955, as her family never be able to play the classics like performances in Canada and the had repatriated to Japan after the her with the kokoro, or “soul”, that U.S. and the number of students she war. Teresa performs under the only comes from living in Japan in her has taught over the years. name of Sho-ko-to Kobayashi era and the life experiences she With regards to my personal Teresa. She acquired the Sho-ko- portrays through her playing. I can path, I believe that learning never to Mastership title some years after only hope to acquire her essence or ends and hope to continue practicing, receiving her teaching certificate. Otowa Ryu Japanese Dance Group by Akemi Komori Columbia, to participate in the Canadian Heritage Festival. Performances were held in Winnipeg and Brandon, and a special performance in Selkirk in the presence of Princess Anne. In 1984, 2 members were selected to join the 10th Anniversary of the Canadian Heritage Festival Production held in Kitchener, Hamilton, Windsor and Toronto, Ontario. And finally in 1990 one member traveled to perform in New Brunswick for the Canadian Heritage Festival. In 1977 during the Japanese Otawa-Ryu dancers. (Akemi Komori photo, date unknown) Canadian Centennial, Otowa Ryu The Otowa Ryu Japanese Canadian Folk Society. Through the members joined the Nikka Festival Dance Group was founded in 1971 society, the doors opened to countless Dancers in celebration and had the in Vancouver, BC, under the direction opportunities to participate in various opportunity to perform in various of Akemi Komori whose professional festivals and events. In 1979, the cities across the country. Regionally (Natori) title is Otowa Hinaaki. group was selected to represent the group took part in numerous The members consist of first to fourth British Columbia in the Canada Day celebrations joining other performing generation Japanese Canadian of all Week Festivities in St. John’s, groups and toured the BC towns of ages. Our goal is to contribute to the Newfoundland. The group performed Kamloops, Greenwood and Kelowna. diversity of the Canadian cultural in several mini-concerts together with During EXPO 86, Otowa society as we preserve and enjoy the other ethnic groups to present the Ryu regularly performed at the Japan art of Japanese dance. multi-cultural nature of Canada. In Pavilion stage. Members also took In the early 1970’s Otowa 1982, six members traveled to part in the EXPO 86 Opening Ryu became a member of the Manitoba, again to represent British Continued on page 6 5 Ceremonies in the presence of Prince - 9th World Buddhist Women’s - 1977 – Recital – Britannia Charles and Princess Diana, the BC Convention – 1990 Secondary School Auditorium Cultural Heritage Day at the Plaza - Burnaby Centennial – 1992 - 1979 – Minyo no Yube – of Nations, Canada Day and the - PANA Nikkei Conference – 1993 Vancouver Japanese Language Vancouver Centennial Celebration. -National Judo Tournament, School During the past 33 years the Burnaby – 1995 - 1980 – Aki-no Odori – Vancouver group has participated in countless - Canadian International Dragon Japanese Language School events such as multi-cultural Boat Festival – 1995, 1998 - 1981 – 10th Anniversary – Queen programs, festivals, private and public - GM APEC World Plaza - 1997 Elizabeth Playhouse organization promotional events and - The Rhythm of the Rising Sun, - 1986 – Shiki-no Mai (Dance of the at schools, hospitals, churches and CBC Television Special – 1997 Four Seasons) – Robson Square conventions. The following are some - Japan Festival in Vancouver – and North Vancouver of the group’s highlights: 1998 Centennial Theatre - Canadian Folk Society Festivals - - National Nikkei Heritage Centre - 1991 – Concert – Robson Square 1971 to the mid-1990’s Grand Opening – 2000 Media Centre - Folkfest – 1974 to the mid-1990’s - Nikkei Week, NNHC – 2002 - 1994 – Recital – Michael J. Fox - Japanese Canadian Centennial - 2010 Olympic Rally – 2003 Theatre Celebration 1977 - Japan Canada Goodwill Culture - 1996 – 25th Anniversary – Michael - Dominion Day Celebration, St. Exchange Concert – 2002 J. Fox Theatre John’s, NFLD – 1979 - Pacific West Performing Arts - 1999 – Minyo-to Enka no Yube (An - Folklorama, Winnipeg, MA – 1981, Festival of Burnaby Honors Evening of Minyo and Enka) – 1995 Showcase – 2003 Norman Rothstein Theatre - Powell Street Festival – since - 2001 – Natsu Odori (Summer inception, 1977 In 1996 the group celebrated Dances) – National Nikkei - Canadian Heritage Festival its 25th Anniversary at the Michael J. Heritage Centre o Manitoba, 1982 Fox Theatre with guest performer o Ontario, 1984 Master Otowa Kikuhina, teacher of The Otowa Ryu Japanese o New Brunswick, 1990 Hinaaki, and Otowa Kikuhinaji. The Dance Group has met many - Expo ’86 group has held annual Maizome Canadians as it crossed many roads. - Asia Pacific Festival – 1987 (recitals) in early February to Its members continue to take part in A Tribute To Rick Hansen, celebrate the New Year with introducing the culture with pride and “Sharing the Dream” – 1987 members’ families and friends. with great appreciation to those who - Olympic ’88 (Calgary) Torch Otowa Ryu has held number concerts have supported us with open arms Arrival – 1988 over the years: over the years. a Nishikawa Dance Group by Tamae Oishi Mrs. Yoko Matsuno has been performing and teaching Japanese classical dance (Nihon Buyou or Odori in Japanese) in Vancouver for the last 29 years. Besides teaching Nikkei students at home, she holds recitals, performs at multi-cultural events and seniors’ homes, and demonstrates at public schools and the Japanese Consulate’s “Touch of Japan” program. In the demonstration she also teaches how to wear a kimono, as it is the stage costume for Nihon Members of the Nishikawa Dance Group. (Yoko Matsuno photo, date unknown) Buyou. She started taking lessons when she was 4 years old. She liked 6 dancing so much that she decided to Mrs. Matsuno not only celebration. Since then she has been proceed with the intensive study to dances but also plays shamisen, a teaching ondo every year for the master the art form. In 1962, she three-stringed instrument used for Powel Street Festival. As a member received the stage name Kayo accompanying odori. In 1973 she of the Nishikawa School, she Nishikawa. It is the school’s tradition became a certified shamisen player performed 65 one-hour programs at to take the family name Nishikawa specializing in Nagauta (“long the Japan Theatre of EXPO 86, when one becomes a full-fledged song”), and took another stage name Vancouver. performer and teacher. Katsuyuya Kineya. In the same year Today, Yoko continues to Nishikawa is one of the she came to Canada. teach Nihon Buyou to promote a schools in odori, and the history of During the 70’s many Asian better understanding of the Japanese the school goes back many centuries. Canadians began questioning their culture. It is a great introduction It grew out of various forms of folk history and searching for identity. In especially for young students who dance in the 16th century. Later on 1976 she started teaching the travel from all over the Province. For some aspects of Japanese theatrical Japanese dance as requested by anybody who grew up in Japan, arts such as Noh, Kyogen and Sansei. In the following year she odori helps us rediscover our Kabuki were incorporated into the began teaching “matsuri-ondo” for heritage, which would otherwise be style. Such forms and styles are Powell Street Festival and the forgotten in modern society. a upheld by Iemoto or the headmaster. Japanese Canadian Centennial An Inventory of Steveston Judo Club Photographs by Mitsuo Yesaki and Haruo Hirata Japanese fishermen started Kuramotos, Haruo Hirata and Jim scanned during this exercise. The 729 returning to Steveston in the spring Kojima. All these collections contain post-war photographs probably of 1949 and by 1953 most of the pre- photographs of judo club personalities represents only a fraction of all judo war fishermen had resettled in the and activities from the post-war era. photographs available in the larger village. Fishermen who were black These collections contained community, but probably includes belt judoka got together in the fall hundreds of photographs, mostly in most of the judoka, important of 1953 to discuss starting judo color. The Anniversary Committee events, visiting instructors and guests classes for Japanese boys and also canvassed senior judoka or their of the Steveston Judo Club. teenagers. This year marks the 50th families for pre-war photographs, The PageMaker publishing anniversary of the re-establishment including Tomoaki Doi, Seichiro application was used to replicate the of the Steveston Judo Club. To Hamanishi, Takeo Kawasaki, Kunji pages of the various albums. The commemorate this anniversary, the Kuramoto, Yonekazu Sakai, Kanezo scanned images were placed into the 50th Anniversary Committee was Tokai and Soichi Uyeyama. These PageMaker pages in the sequence of convened to undertake several collections contained only eight black the original albums. The images were projects to preserve the history of the and white photographs from the pre- sometimes reduced to fit into the Steveston Judo Club and to honor the war era. letter-sized paper. The PageMaker original sensei, past club officials and The collected photographs pages were printed on a black and outstanding judoka. These projects were scanned on a flatbed scanner white laser printer. These printed included restoration of a Kano and saved in their original size and pages were inserted in plastic covers calligraphy, homage ceremony for colour at 300 dpi (dots per inch) as and stored in three-ring binders. the original sensei, barbeque and tiff (a graphics format) files. All These binders provide an easy banquet for past and present judoka, photographs in the first post-war reference to the photographs as well as a video and book collection were scanned, whereas available in the Steveston Judo Club documenting the history of the club. photographs in all subsequent post- community. A component of the club war collections were haphazardly The scanned images and the history included an inventory of the culled to avoid duplication. The eight PageMaker albums were burned onto photographs available in the pre-war photographs were scanned: CDs. The images on the CDs were Steveston community. The these photographs probably accounts retrieved with the PhotoDeluxe Anniversary Committee gathered for almost all the photographs application, resized to fit full-size onto several large collections including available in the larger community. A letter-sized paper and printed with an those of Art Nishi, the Judo Club, total of 737 photographs were Continued on page 8 7 and Banquet scheduled for November 2003. The photo-quality paper and printer ink used for this project cost $187, or about $2.70 for each print. On the other hand, an 8 X 10-inch black and white photograph would cost approximately $10 to print from a negative. If there is no negative and the original photograph has to be photographed, then there is an addition cost of about $10 for a 35mm negative. The inkjet-printout display for the Senior Judo Tournament cost less than one-seventh that of a comparable display with black and white photographs. The inkjet- printouts on photo quality paper are of high-enough standard for display purposes. They are also cheap Steveston Judo Club members on the steps of the Japanese Language School enough that different printouts can be (Doi Family photo, ca. 1935) printed for every occasion. With the inkjet printer. Seventy of the images Tournament held at the Steveston scanned images stored on CDs, the were printed on photo-quality paper Community Center in February 2003. Steveston Judo Club will be able to and were displayed onto a portable Other images will be printed for other reproduce appropriate inkjet-printouts bulletin board. The bulletin board was photo gallery displays at the Reunion for all future events. a exhibited at the Senior Judo Barbeque scheduled for August 2003 Resources on Internment by Masako Fukawa Internment and Redress: responsibility and government designed to be a coherent package the Japanese Canadian accountability. The internment was of four lessons that take teachers Experience: a Resource Guide for not an accident or a mere coincidence from helping students to develop Social Studies 11 Teachers and of wartime decisions made under empathy for victims of racism to Internment and Redress: the Story duress or necessity. Life-altering considering redress for past injustices of Japanese Canadians: a decisions were made with little regard in Canada’s multicultural society. Resource Guide for Teachers of the to the guilt or innocence of the The Intermediate resource guide Intermediate Grades will be victims. The individuals who made for teachers of social studies and available to teachers in British these decisions were unable or social responsibility consists of 14 Columbia schools this September. unwilling to assess the issue without lessons and is designed to assist Both resources were produced with bias or prejudice. teachers in helping students develop a grant from the BC Ministry of Throughout their studies, their skills in critical thinking and Education for teachers in the public students are asked to question and reflective journal writing; develop a and independent schools in the recognize their own prejudices and sense of fairness and social province. The developers are a team biases so that they will not easily fall responsibility and the need to make of teachers with contributions and prey to the stereotyping and reparations for past mistakes. In the support from members of the overgeneralization that plagued our 3 core lessons students study The Japanese Canadian and the larger leaders in the winter of 1942. Charter of Rights and Freedoms and education community. Students will come to understand that the Treatment of Japanese A study of the internment of civil liberties can only be protected Canadians, Living Conditions in Japanese Canadians raises many in a society that is open and where Internment, and Redress: How to questions about human nature, individuals take responsibility. Apologize for Making a Mistake. racism, discrimination, social The Secondary resource is The website for this project:

8 www.japanesecanadianhistory.net. (School District) Intermediate: Bruce Kiloh, Coquitlam SD Masako Fukawa, Project Leader Development Team members are: Richard Per, Burnaby SD Susan Nishi, Richmond SD Secondary: Jane Turner, Burnaby SD Greg Miyanaga, Coquitlam SD Masako Fukawa, Project Leader Mike Whittingham, Richmond SD Patricia Tanaka, Coquitlam SD a Richard Beardsley, Richmond SD A Legacy of Stories: Storytelling in My Life by Yukiko Tosa As a Children’s Librarian Multicultural channel. Drums of Noto Hanto” and have and Storyteller, I have often thought As I became acquainted come to appreciate the value and about how I began this journey of with Western folktales, the “happily- power of combining music with oral sharing Japanese folk stories with ever-after” endings often surprised storytelling. children and adults. I think it began me. Many of the Japanese tales I Also I am now combining my on my mother’s back as she carried learned did not share such blissful love of origami with storytelling to me about as a young child. endings. They seemed more real and create what is called “storigamis”. I spent my early years in often echoed the human condition. This is a challenging task since you Japan. Born to a Japanese mother I was able to hone my need to think of how to fold the paper and a Japanese-Canadian father, it storytelling skills in church as I to match the story you are sharing. was not only my mother’s great love shared the stories of Jesus with It is also a wonderful device to teach of stories and literature that drew me young children. I was never exposed the art of origami to children. to her. I remember finding such to a storytelling group until adulthood. Even in her old age, my comfort, security and happiness in the As I began my career as a mother’s influence never ceased - she vibrations of her high-pitched voice Children’s Librarian, there were was a voracious reader and and the warmth of her body. more opportunities to share stories continued being a teller of tales and In many ways my mother with children, both from a written text had a wonderful capacity to enjoy a wanted me to have some connection and orally. The value of reading good joke or to laugh at her own with the stories she grew up with and aloud to children is immeasurable. humour. She always encouraged me she continued the tradition of oral Often I am asked to share to tell her stories and to show her the storytelling. She did this not only for Japanese stories with children. My latest “storigamis” even if it was in the enjoyment of it but also as a mother’s stories were always in English. This gave me a great teaching tool – instilling morals into Japanese and for years I had been appreciation for the art of bilingual her child. She also used some scarier enjoying the stories collected and storytelling. stories to traumatize me into translated into English by Lafcadio It has now been three years obedience. Those Japanese Hearn and Yoshiko Uchida. since my mother passed away but I “Obake” or ghost stories can be quite I began to tell more of these treasure the memories and the stories haunting! stories, such as “Urashima-Taro”, she shared with me. Betsy Warland As we moved to Vancouver “The Crane Wife” and “The Bamboo in her poignant book “Bloodroot: and back to my father’s roots, my Cutter’s Daughter” and realized that tracing the untelling of motherloss” parents wanted me to become these particular stories that I loved wrote these touching words: “Canadianized” so they encouraged so much had such tragic endings and Our story ourselves. me to go to church where I was often the consequences of life can My mother birthed me & birthed taught the stories of Jesus and came be tragic. story in me. to love the inspirational Parables of So to balance things out, I She spoke words to me as soon as Jesus. would also share the great stories of she held me. However, at the same time, wit and wisdom such as “The Three Her placenta of words began to my mother wanted me to be Strong Women” or “The Wise Old envelop me. connected to my heritage through Woman” that spoke of positive My mother taught me language, stories. She instilled in me a great female influences and the wisdom of which is how to exist. love for literature and especially our elders. There is no story without mother. 1 Japanese folktales and legends. We Recently, I have had the My mother created in me a also watched a lot of the “Mukashi privilege of working with Uzume love of storytelling, and this is a Banashi” stories in Japanese on the Taiko to retell the story of “The Continued on page 10 9 legacy I need to carry on and to share Toronto: Second Story Press, c2000: Uchida, Yoshiko. The sea of gold, with others. p. 183. and other tales of Japan. Periodically, I am asked Adapted by Yoshiko Uchida. Ill. by about the rich collection of Japanese Haviland, Virginia, 1911. Favorite Marianne Yamaguchi. New York: children’s literature housed at the fairy tales told in Japan. Ill. by Scribner [1965]. Also: Berkeley: Vancouver Public Library. We are Carol Inouye. New York: Beech Creative Arts Book, 1988. (This is very fortunate to have this wealth of Tree Books, 1996. (This is a a collection of twelve more children’s stories set in Japan and collection of five traditional folktales selected by Uchida and written by Japanese authors and Japanese tales) enhanced by Yamaguchi’s black and illustrators, as well as non-Japanese Nishimoto, Keisuke. Japanese white charcoal drawings. Glossary authors and illustrators. These fairy tales. Ill. by Yoko Imoto. included.) include picture books, novels, Trans. by Dianne Ooka Torrance, Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 and folktales and informational books. CA : Heian, 1999, c1998. (A others. Japanese fairy tales. With There is also a nice representation collection in 2 volumes of well- an introduction by Phyllis Fenner of Japanese-Canadian and Japanese- known Japanese tales each with 5 [and] illus. in full color by “Kay”. American children’s stories. The or 6 tales included in each and New York, Liveright [1953]. Library also has an excellent sweetly illustrated by Imoto. There Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. selection of books for children in is also a Note to Parents on how to The tale of the bamboo cutter = Japanese that are kept in the capture a child’s imagination Taketori Monogatari. Multilingual Collection of the Central through stories from Professor Trans. by Donald Keeene. Ill. by Library. Nishimoto of Showa Woman’s Masayuki Miyata. Tokyo ; New The following is an annotated College.) York : Kodansha International, bibliography of some of the Japanese Uchida, Yoshiko. The dancing 1998. (English and Japanese on folktales that have been translated kettle, and other Japanese folk opposite pages. The classic tale into English and are held in the tales. Ill. by Richard C. Jones. beautifully illustrated by Miyata.) Children’s Library, Special New York: Harcourt, Brace [1949]. Kawai, Hayao. The Japanese Collections and in the Adult Divisions (This is one of the first collections psyche: major motifs in the fairy of the Vancouver Public Library. I of fourteen familiar tales translated tales of Japan. Woodstock, Conn. hope that this list will be a useful and adapted by the well-known : Spring Publications, 1996. (new guide in starting or in continuing the Japanese American author Uchida edition of the 1988 edition. rich tradition of sharing Japanese with black and white drawings by Translation of “Mukashibanashi to stories with the children and adults Jones. A Glossary and Nihonjin no kokoro”. This study in your life. Pronunciation guide is included. approaches the often haunting Please contact Yukiko Tosa These are excellent for oral depth of the Japanese soul by at the Vancouver Public Library storytelling.) interpreting some major themes in (604-331-3663) if you would like to Uchida, Yoshiko. The magic fairy tales using a Jungian receive the full bibliography titled “A listening cap; more folk tales approach. Comparative thematic Selected and Annotated from Japan. Retold and ill. by studies are presented from Bibliography of Japanese Yoshiko Uchida. New York: Japanese and Western tales.) a Folktales at the Vancouver Public Harcourt, Brace [c1955]. (This is Library”. a collection of fourteen more Yukiko Tosa (LTh; BEd; MLS) is a classic folk tales collected and Children’s Librarian at the Central 1Warland, Betsy. Bloodroot: adapted by Uchida. Glossary Branch of the Vancouver Public tracing the untelling of motherloss. included.) Library. JCNM Manager/Curator’s Report by Steve Turnbull In my short 4 months with dedication to the museum, its purpose with a progress report and a glimpse the Japanese Canadian National and its success. at where we are going in the Museum I have not yet had the As your employee it is my immediate future. pleasure of meeting all of our privilege to serve such passion and Since my arrival in February members and supporters. However, to strive to fulfil the expectations that the bulk of my time has been taken of those I have met I have accompany that passion. It is in this up with restarting or concluding consistently observed a passion and spirit that I am pleased to provide you projects that were begun some time 10 ago. Among these are: Museum Kit project. I have across the country and the active The continuing been working with Mas Fukawa, the participation of the National Film partnership with the Nikkei museum’s volunteer Education Board. It was the largest “sit down” Fishermen’s Committee. This Coordinator to assist her with the goal event ever held at the National Nikkei very positive relationship will yield of having the museum’s new school Heritage Centre. “outreach” kit complete and A special presentation by a book on the Nikkei fishing circulating to schools in September. Jacqueline Gresko. In honour of community and its We have also had a number International Museums Day (May 18) accomplishments as well as an of new projects in progress including: and Asian Heritage month the exhibit at the museum that will ? A new exhibit Saved For museum hosted Ms. Gesko speaking reflect upon the community, its Our Future; Stories From Our Past, to an enthusiastic audience on the history and its contributions. a temporary exhibit of recent topic “Catholic Missions to the Japanese Canadian acquisitions to the museum Japanese Canadian Community in Photographers project. This project, collection. This is expected to open Vancouver and Steveston. Ms. conceived and led by Grace Eiko in late June. Gresko is a History Instructor at Thomson has been ongoing since the A new “digital” exhibit Douglas College in New Spring of 2001. In March the funded by the Department of Westminster. museum completed a plan to guide Canadian Heritage. The museum will Collections Program. the project to completion of its “digitize” its existing exhibit Our Through the efforts of staffers Daien objectives; a catalogue of photos and Mothers Patterns, a look at the dress Ide and Tim Savage the museum has essays concerning early Japanese making trade within the Japanese continued its vigorous program of Canadian studio photographers, and Canadian community, add any new collecting and preserving the heritage a traveling exhibit on the same material that ongoing research of the Japanese Canadian subject. provides, and create an exhibit that Community. Leveling The Playing Field. will be featured on the Virtual The museum is active and Fundraising and initial planning for Museum of Canada web site to be busily pursuing its mandate, so much this exhibit on the Asahi baseball enjoyed by Internet surfers world so that space does not permit me to team and its community began a year wide. report on everything that is and a half ago. To restart the project Sleeping Tigers premiere. happening. If you wish to know more I have drafted a plan and recruited The museum planned and hosted the or think we should be doing more I the assistance of Asahi authority Pat world premiere of this fascinating need to hear from you. I can be Adachi of Toronto among other film about Vancouver’s famous reached at the museum (604-777- knowledgeable individuals. Opening Asahi baseball team. This national 8000) or via e-mail at of the exhibit is tentatively planned event included special guests from [email protected]. a for next Spring. Addendum to JCNM President’s Report 2001-2002 by Stan Fukawa In July of 2002, the Museum However, one final formality remains due to Linda for the misnomer. We membership voted 95.1% in favour before we are officially united, and are very grateful to her for her of merger with the NNHCS. The that is the signing of the agreement. generosity in donating her wonderful Museum Board expected that the Because we were not film to be part of the joint enterprise merger would take place within two formally merged, it was decided to which created a Japanese version months and that the 2001-2002 year write an addendum to the annual shown to thousands of viewers in 13 would be the final year for our report for the 2001-2002 year which cities across Japan. Distribution existence as an independent was published in both the JCCA rights to the Japanese version were organization. The two organizations Bulletin and the Nikkei Voice last fall. granted to us by the NFB for creating have been integrating their I would like to begin with a the Japanese subtitles. In deference operations, and for most purposes, correction which must be made to the to Linda’s wishes, these rights will are one organization. Even in the 2001-2002 Annual Report. The be transferred to the Onomichi group annual Mochitsuki, the Museum Japan Tour of Obaachan’s Garden in Obaachan’s birthplace which will volunteers joined with the Nikkei was there described as a Museum be able to utilize the proceeds to Centre Auxiliary very smoothly to project. It was, in fact, a joint project Continued on page 12 carry off that special event. with Linda Ohama and apologies are 11 continue the heritage of Asayo confident that he will do an excellent documentary directed by Jari Murakami, and her indomitable spirit. job in managing and developing the Osborne “Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi The Canada Friendship Association JCNM. Baseball Story”. of Japan must also be thanked for Since the arrival of the Although the Museum Board their support without which the Tour Manager/Curator, the staff has been will cease to exist as such, the could not have been carried out so actively pursuing Board priorities. Museum will remain under its present successfully in such a short time, as Among these are the continuation of name. Most of the current Board must our donors: Dept. of Foreign support to the Nikkei Fishermen’s members are offering to serve the Affairs, Toyota Canada, and the Committee which will lead to the merged new Board, demonstrating NFB. publication of two books on the their desire to support the Museum This past year and a half has Nikkei fishing committee and and the Heritage Centre. I am been a difficult time for the Board of eventually an exhibit at the JCNM on confident that the legacy of this Board Directors and the Museum staff. the community and its history. The will be much appreciated for its The process of hiring a new planning for the Asahi Baseball success in realizing the merger with Executive Director took longer than exhibit “Leveling the Playing Field” the NNHCS and for its steadiness at we had wished because of the which is tentatively scheduled to open the helm in rough seas. My personal changes in the job description due to in April 2004. As well new exhibits thanks to all the Board members for the merger. We have been able to will fill the gallery while these larger their commitment to the Museum and hire a Full-time Manager/Curator. exhibits are in development. These their willingness to persevere even He has a Master’s degree in include an exhibit entitled “Who We when the work was time-consuming Museum Studies from the University Were” focusing on 20th century and difficult. Thanks also to our of Toronto, has many years of fishing and dressmaking, and “Stories members and generous donors, to our experience in Museum curatorial and From Our Past” an exhibit of recent many committed volunteers, to the educational work, has served as acquisitions to the Museum NNHCS Board, the CEO of Nikkei President of the BC Museums collection. This March, the Museum Place, staff members of both the Association, and in his short tenure received a grant to digitize a past NNHCS and the Museum, and to our has already impressed us with his exhibit “Our Mother’s Patterns”, and distinguished National Advisors. Your planning, budgeting, PR, negotiating most recently in April, the Museum support has enabled us to get to and consultative skills. We are hosted the world premiere of an NFB where we are. a Museum Formally Merges with NNHCS by Stan Fukawa On May 10, 2003, the merger had been approved. It had such as “Japanese Canadian representatives of the Japanese already been approved by the National Museum and Nikkei Canadian National Museum Board of Museum membership in July 2002, Heritage Centre” or similar Directors and of the newly renamed and the two signing officers had been mutually agreeable name which National Nikkei Museum and authorized to act on behalf of the clearly expresses the concept of Heritage Centre, signed the formal membership if they were satisfied that a Japanese Canadian national merger document. Signing for the specific conditions had been met. museum. Museum were the President Stan The ballot read as (b) the retention by the merged Fukawa and founding President follows…Resolution for the Merger organization of the national Frank Kamiya; and for the of the Japanese Canadian National mandate of the JCNM and the NNM&HC, President Mitsuo Museum (JCNM) and the National original museum goals outlined Hayashi and founding President, Nikkei Heritage Centre Society in the JCNM Constitution. Robert Banno. (NNHCS). (c ) the board of directors of the The combining of the two “BE IT RESOLVED THAT: merged organization to be organizations had begun six months 1. the Directors of the JCNM be constituted, for the first three ago with the sharing of staff positions. authorized to merge the JCNM with years, of half of the directors At the end of May 2003, the the from the JCNM, the other half organizations will become one National Nikkei Heritage Centre from the NNHCS. financially. Society (“NNHCS”), in a process (d) the merging together of There seemed to be some which includes: the assets and liabilities of the confusion among a few people in the (a) the adoption of a new name JCNM and the NNHCS. audience about whether or not the for the merged organization 2. the President and Vice-President 12 of the JCNM be jointly authorized to BELOW WHICH AGREES WITH adoption. execute all instruments and YOUR INTENT ____ NO, I do not agree with documents necessary to carry out ____ YES, I agree with the the resolution, and vote against its and give effect to these resolutions.” resolution above, and vote for its adoption. a PLEASE CHECK THE SPACE REVIEW – NFB Documentary, “Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story” by Liz Nunoda Belec, a founder of Baseball Quebec, in team games, Ms. Osborne creates and former major league pitcher, Kirk an effective overall picture of who McCaskill. the players were, what they Most Canadians have never represented to the community, and the heard of the Vancouver Asahi, but social and political environment they they will go down in history as a were living and playing in. The film talented group of athletes, many of also recounts what happened to team them nisei, who excelled at a game members when the government they weren’t supposed to excel in, issued orders leading to internment one that was quintessentially North and forced dispersal of all Japanese American. The odds were stacked Canadians. While in camp, many against them but they found a way team members reunited to play yet to win despite that fact; this is why again, much to the thrill of their fans they were and still are so admired. who were interned alongside them. Produced by the NFB, The documentary also shows “Sleeping Tigers” is an historical some of the surviving members valentine to the legendary Asahi attending a recent Toronto Blue Jays Kaye Kaminishi at the World Premiere team. It is both an uplifting celebration pre-game ceremony in the Sky Dome of “Sleeping Tigers”. (JCNM photo, of a group of young athletes and a in which one of the Asahi threw out 2003) moving document of a community and the first pitch. A team photo was also On June 28, 2003, the pre- time in Canadian history that printed on all Blue Jays season’s war Japanese Canadian baseball shouldn’t be forgotten. tickets issued that year. team, known as the Vancouver Asahi, The director, Jari Osborne, I will take this opportunity to will be inducted into the Canadian accomplishes this by including thank Jari Osborne for her energy, Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Marys, recreations of the Asahi players hard work and dedication in creating Ontario. On that special day, Kaye gathering for practise, silhouetted this important and entertaining film Kaminishi, now a resident of against a rising/setting sun. She also record of these community and sports Kamloops, BC, and a former Asahi uses war-era-style music on the icons. In making this she has team member, will be present. To soundtrack, which helps to evoke the honoured them and the history of the be sure, where possible, so will all of mood of the time. By incorporating Japanese Canadian community, and the remaining Asahi players. Other interviews with surviving members of has made an important contribution notable recipients being honoured in the team as well as Japanese to keeping our history alive for future the same ceremony are Joe Carter Canadians and Caucasians who generations. a of the Toronto Blue Jays, Richard remember attending or participating Museum Celebrates Successful Event by Steve Turnbull The Japanese Canadian Heritage Centre in Burnaby before the Japanese-Canadian community at National Museum hosted the world a sell-out crowd of 500. a time when Canadians of Japanese premiere of a new National Film The 50-minute documentary ancestry were treated as second- Board of Canada film at a festive tells the story of Vancouver’s class citizens. The Asahi fans, many event held April 13. The film, entitled celebrated Asahi baseball team, the of whom were Caucasian, cheered “Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball pride of the city’s Japanese-Canadian the team on to 5 consecutive amateur Story”, directed by Toronto writer/ community. During its relatively short championships in the Pacific director Jari Osborne, premiered at life, 1914-1942, the team gained a Northwest. Continued on page 14 the National Nikkei Museum and measure of equality and respect for 13 When Canada declared war success that it was. From the Toronto! I’m all braced up and on Japan in 1942 everyone of wonderful receptions we held for hobbling about on Japanese descent, including many invited guests and later for the crutches—but I’m fine! So, who were Canadian citizens, were general public to the warmth and please keep in touch and let me know sent to internment camps in the B.C. excitement of the screening itself the if and how I can be of interior. The team was broken up as event was conducted flawlessly and assistance to you in putting its members were sent to various the evening was a memorable one. the exhibit together. Once again camps. Even then the individual The comments from National Film please convey my sincere thanks to Asahi members continued to play Board representatives in attendance all those involved in putting together baseball, organizing games in their indicated that they were very the screening for Sleeping Tigers. camps, sometimes with local impressed. So too was Director Jari Yours, Jari townspeople and in the process Osborne who sent us this message breaking down cultural barriers of thanks: between them. Dear Steve, In his remarks at the What a memorable event! I premiere of Sleeping Tigers, Stan want to thank you and everyone Fukawa, President of the Japanese involved for the warm and generous Canadian National Museum Society reception of Sleeping Tigers. It was said of the film “…Sleeping Tigers lovely! I was quite overwhelmed by is not just a west coast story but a both the numbers and the response national story, not just a baseball to the film. So many people story but a societal story, it is approached me personally to express inspirational and not just a page the nicest things and to thank me— in our Japanese Canadian history to thank me!— for making the film. but a chapter in the history of a As I said, the thanks is all to those in developing multicultural Canada”. the community who claim this story Mr. Fukawa concluded by saying it and kept it alive in their hearts so that was very fitting that the National Film I could retrieve it and give it voice. Board gave the museum the great Please forgive me for not honour of premiering the film. being in touch earlier to thank you, I want to take this but I was sidelined by an injury. I opportunity to thank all of you who broke my leg (!) while still in helped make the world première Vancouver and have had to spend a Jari Osbourne at the screening of screening of “Sleeping Tigers: The lot of time in various emergency Sleeping Tigers. (JCNM photo, 2003) Asahi Baseball Story” the great wards before and after returning to REVIEW - SUTEBUSUTON: A Japanese Village on the British Columbia Coast by Midge Ayukawa This is Moe Yesaki’s fourth book centring on the Steveston, the arrival of many more men, especially from fishing industry in Steveston, British Columbia, and is the Mio-mura, the start of the family unit, the gradual most comprehensive by far. It is a critical study of the formation of a vibrant Japanese community, and its social and political atmosphere of the whole industry with destruction—Moe has covered it all in great detail. particular emphasis on the vital role that Japanese The Fishermen’s Association, with its first immigrants played in it. president Tomekichi Homma was organized in 1897. Moe was thorough in his research. He delved From this organization stemmed “medicare before into BC directories, census data, company ledgers, and Medicare” at the Fishermen’s Hospital. The closely- what may well be every available source of written and knit community helped each other with financial oral information. He recruited the expertise of Sakuya organizations that provided relief funds and loans, religious Nishimura, a volunteer at the Japanese Canadian National institutions, Japanese language schools, and even shared Museum, who carefully went through the Japanese with the Richmond School Board the cost of building Lord language material which is inaccessible to many. Byng Elementary School. The Association handled every From the earliest Japanese who came to problem that turned up; from strikes, low cannery 14 payments, to coping with government decisions to decrease the number of Japanese fishers. Moe discussed the production of salt chum salmon, salt herring, and salmon roe for export to Japan, and the ship-building industry. He has also clarified why, while many from other villages retired to Japan, people from Mio-mura became permanent residents of Canada. It’s all there. Moe’s latest book is a gold mine of information not only for Japanese Canadians who are curious about the pioneers and their society, but also for mainstream history buffs. Everything is well documented so fastidious academics can check the sources. My only reservation is that Moe has made a number of references to NIKKEI IMAGES and although he cites the page and the volume, he does not specify the exact article, its writer, or the JCNM. Moe has assured me that he is going to see to it that copies will be deposited in various suitable locations. However, my greatest concern is that fifty years hence, tracing those articles may become very difficult unless there is clearer documentation. I urge everyone to read the book, learn about the past, and feast your eyes on the great collection of photos. Moe is to be highly commended for retrieving a most vital part of our JC history. Perhaps one day he SUTEBUSUTON by Mitsuo Yesaki. Peninsula Publishing will research the post-1949 period when many Nisei Co., Vancouver, BC, 2003. returned to fishing and gradually “equalized the fishing field.” a Kinzie Tanaka, Political Activist, Excerpts from a Memoir by Yon Shimizu in late 1992 or early 1993 that he sent it to me. The following audiotape transcript has been edited for brevity and ease of reading.

“The earliest recollection that I have is when I was just a little fellow in Vancouver, BC, but I later found out that I was born in Japan. How I came to be born in Japan was a little bit interesting. My father came to Canada around 1896 as young man, I believe he was in his early 20s, and a few years later my mother came to Vancouver and married my father. This took place somewhere around 1905-1906. George my brother was born in 1912. The first Great Kinzie and Terry Tanaka ( Kinzie Tanaka photo, 2003) War started in 1914 and my mother was carrying me at that time. My father thought it would be better for This article contains excerpts from an audio tape my mother and George to go to Japan where he felt it which I received from Kinzie Tanaka when I was might be safer for them because there were some researching information for my book “The Exiles”. Much rumours that German U-boats were in the Pacific. of the information he provided ended up in the biographies Consequently, I was born in Japan on April the 28th, of his brother George and himself in Chapter 7 of “The 1915. Mother stayed with myself and George for Exiles”. Unfortunately I did not date the tape when it about a year because she didn’t want to travel with was received, but it probably would have been sometime such a young baby. It seemed like the Pacific coast Continued on page 16 15 was fairly safe, so my father School also and as he was first to be shipped off amongst our arranged for my brother and me, graduating I was just starting. The family, I think the date was March as a baby, to return to Vancouver. Depression was starting to come the 12th, 1942. The CN train that’s These things I didn’t know until I into full force and by the time I just off Main Street the CN terminal grew up a little more and as I said, graduated in 1932 or 1933 the there, that’s where I embarked. and as a youngster all I remember is Great Depression was really upon if you will recall there was a curfew playing on Burrard St. near us at that time. You can imagine on at that time and any Japanese- Pender because my father had a when I went to look for a job, when Canadians couldn’t be on the tailoring establishment at 517 I was 18 or 19 years of age and streets after 7 o’clock. I had gotten Burrard St. There were no cars in being of Japanese heritage, there to know my present wife, Terry. At those days or very few cars and were just no jobs available. that time she was Terry Kitamura, my father was one of the very few Finally, I got a summer job in a and she wanted to come down to people who owned a car and it was logging camp up the coast of say good-bye to me, but she had a car called an Allen. I don’t British Columbia at a place called to leave before the train pulled out suppose you ever heard of that, Stillwater, BC. It actually was a because she just couldn’t be but it was a vehicle that didn’t go shingle camp, and we were inland caught around after 7 o’clock. much above 30 or 40 miles an hour. a bit, and the person I worked for Three or four of my Caucasian Anyway, it was rather interesting was a Japanese fellow by the name friends came down to say good- that my father would have this car of Mr. Ide. I think he came from bye, and this was I guess, around because there were so few in the the interior of BC somewhere and 7 o’clock, I don’t quite remember. city and I guess I didn’t realise at he was a very short, wiry, stocky, Then the train pulled out and I the time he was more sort of fellow. He was like the remember later Terry saying that adventuresome than a lot of camp boss of our group of camp she and my mother listened for the Japanese that had come to workers and, of course we worked train whistle because we could Canada, because I do remember for some larger organisation that hear the train whistle from where him as a sportsman. He loved hired him, and he hired us. I we lived in Collingwood East. hunting, he would go hunting for remember working in that camp When she heard the train whistle ducks and geese and snipes and and that was my first experience they said to each other “there goes pheasants and so on and I would at real hard physical labour. I Kinzie”. We were headed for a be so impressed and so happy remember during the first week I place called Lempriere which was when he would come back with was so physically tired, that after 2 stops north of Blue River. these birds at different times of the dinner and after bath, I would lie I left the project in April of year. My father died in 1924. He down on my bunk and fall fast the following year. In 1942 my was about 51 years of age and he asleep by 8 o’clock. We worked a brother had gone from his road had some problem I think with his 10-hour day and working a 10- camp up in the Schreiber area in liver that’s what I sort of remember. hour day in a logging camp Northern Ontario down to Valetta I was 9 years old at that time, my certainly disciplines you to the in South Western Ontario near brother was 12. responsibility of trying to be a Chatham to work in the harvesting My father had a fairly man. of sugar beets, hay, etc. He went good tailoring establishment but of In my late teens I guess it with a Nisei group who decided course my mother couldn’t carry was, maybe 17, 18 years of age, I that they would rather work down on. We subsequently found a little became a member of the Japanese there than contend with black flies house in Collingwood East near Canadian Citizens League, a up at the Schreiber area. Dave Burnaby and not far from Central political action group representing Watanabe was one of them, and Park. I attended the public school the Japanese Canadians in several of the Nisei who later at Carleton, it’s called Carleton Vancouver especially and I did joined the Armed Forces also went Public School and I graduated participate in some of their down there. Dave managed to get from that school, I guess I was 14 endeavours and that is where I first to Toronto after the harvesting was years of age and I entered the met Tommy Shoyama. over, and I’ve just forgotten how Vancouver Technical School and When Pearl Harbour came he managed that. He’d written to my brother he was ahead of me and and the Government decided to do my brother that he should be able he went to Vancouver Technical this evacuation business, I was the to get into Toronto through Mr. 16 Trueman, the placement person in the name of Mr. McDonald, and Louis Suzuki, and many others that the Toronto area, and so my that was to be my home for a few were concerned and connected brother arrived in the fall of 1942. years. That’s where the nucleus of with the JCCD volunteered for the He was able to look around for the political action group in Armed Forces. I did also, but being work for me so I could have a Toronto started, at 84 Gerrard St. born in Japan they wouldn’t accept reason, a legitimate reason, to My brother, myself, David me at that time. When the boys move to Toronto. He found a radio Watanabe, Louis Suzuki and finally joined up and moved to company, a radio trade supply several other Nisei, who by that boot camp, I was left alone with a company, that was looking for a time had got into Toronto, decided good group of Nisei girls. We had radio technician because most of that we should form some sort of established the “NISEI AFFAIRS” the technicians in the city of political action group. Roger just prior to that, so it was our job Toronto had all gone into the Obata had come, I think, from to try and carry on and keep Armed Forces. I had learned radio Montreal, and was staying in publishing the newsletter. We at the technical school, at least the Toronto at that time, and I would send them out to the boys electrical part of it, and self- remember Roger was part of our when they were in the Armed studied a lot, and we had formed group also. We had decided that Forces in Vancouver. Some of the the Collingwood Amateur Radio we would have to have a copies, as you told me, ended up Club in those early days. There constitution, so I remember one in the Archives in Ottawa. I spent was my brother, myself and Jin Ide, night Roger, George and I met with many, many hours doing this type Henry Ide’s older brother. Jin was George Tamaki, who was a lawyer. of work trying to keep the one of the founding members of I don’t know whether he had organisation going while all the this little club too. Together with 2 graduated completely or not, but I other fellows were in the armed or 3 others, we formed an amateur do know that he had been studying forces. radio club, so I got to know quite at Dalhousie and he was in When the war ended and a bit about ham radio. I actually Toronto at that time staying for a the boys were being discharged, we had started a little store in while. We got together and with felt there had to be a continuation Collingwood at that time and I had some input from the three of us, he of the political action group we’d that store until the time we had to actually wrote the whole started. We needed somebody that be evacuated. Of course, I had to constitution for us. That’s how the would devote full time towards close everything down pretty fast. Japanese Canadian Committee for organizing the many aspects that My experience as a radio Democracy was established. It was needed to be looked after. The technician stood me in good stead quite an active group. You main one, of course, was the because Mr. Harold Weir of the remember the shoyu question, the property question. My brother, Radio Trade Supply on Yonge Armed Forces question and all the George, finally was persuaded to Street said sure, send your brother other controversial questions that take on the job. I think Tommy over, there’s a job waiting for him came up during that period. We Shoyama was asked to take it on, here. So I got permission from the had very hectic public meetings at but I think he was in Winnipeg at Commission to come to Toronto. I’ll the Carlton United Church and the that time and he declined, and so never forget the first day I stepped Church of All Nations. We had a George, took on the job. He off the train at Union Station, lot of meetings and a lot of worked very, very hard during which happened to be a Sunday, controversial discussions went on. those years, travelling across the everything was so quiet. I think it Some Nisei were adamantly against country a couple of times as I was around 7 o’clock in the joining the Armed Forces, but we remember, going to Ottawa and morning and my brother took me as a JCCD group felt that if we meeting with various officials in across the street to Murray’s were going to be Canadians and Ottawa about this properties restaurant and I had some recognised as Canadians, as we question and other related things breakfast there. We walked from should have been, one way to which were very, very prominent at the restaurant to 84 Gerrard St. prove it was that we would take the that time in the minds of all My brother, Dave Watanabe and responsibility of laying it on the Japanese Canadians. Finally, in Louis Suzuki were all boarding in line by joining the Armed Forces. 1947 I believe, we felt that the this 3 storey house, an That’s when Roger Obata, my JCCD should be organized establishment run by a fellow by brother George, Dave Watanabe, Continued on page 18 17 nationally, because there were concerned. My brother, George, nostalgic that the JCCA name Japanese Canadians all across the also resigned as Executive wouldn’t be around any more as far country forming small groups that Secretary; I think it was around as the national organisation was were doing work similar to what 1951. He started to develop his concerned, but the majority ruling we were trying to do. We had a landscape architect’s business. was that it should be changed to Conference in Toronto and that’s Now around 1978, 1979, 1980, the the NAJC, and I guess that’s the when we established the Japanese Redress question became the focal point when the Redress question Canadian Citizens Association. point of most Japanese Canadians started to move forward.” Mike Masaoka from the United across the country and I remember States came up to speak to us at attending a conference in Today, Kinzie and his wife, that time and gave a very inspiring Vancouver in 1980 where the Terry, are living in Mississauga, talk. So the JCCA was formed, and question of the Redress was being Ontario. His brother, George, and his I was involved in that also. discussed and that’s where they wife, Cana, were killed in an I wanted to ease out of this decided that the JCCA, as a automobile accident in 1982 in which very hectic period of working in national organization, should be Kinzie and his wife were also injured. the JCCA and I wanted to spend changed to NAJC, the National The injuries Terry suffered continue more time on my actual career as Association of Japanese to make life very difficult for her to far as earning a living was Canadians. I felt a little bit this day. a Unlucky Sugar Beet Workers by Yoshiaki Matsumoto In April 1942, our family left a dirt road and continued for another One room was about 5-feet by 6-feet Haney, B.C. on a train which already three miles to the gate to the with no door. Another room was had large numbers of evacuees from Andrews’ farm. The truck turned about 6-feet by 12-feet with two Steveston and Vancouver. We through the gate, passed the wooden beds about 3-feet wide, each reached Calgary, Alberta the next Andrews’ house and finally came to with a straw mattress. The third morning where it was still very cold. stop in front of an old shack. We said room had one bed about 3-feet wide We finally arrived in Lethbridge that this couldn’t be it. We asked the driver and a straw mattress. Two afternoon where it was nice and and he said this is it. We unloaded bedspreads were hung on the sunny, but the wind was a bit cold. our things and then the driver said he doorways. Breezes coming through We all sat by our belongings along was going home. He was a neighbor, cracks on the single board walls the railway platform. There was a so the nice truck went with him. swung the bedspreads back and B.C. Security Commissioner sitting The shack was only about 12- forth. We stacked whatever boxes there dispatching all the people to feet by 12-feet, with single board we had for use as cupboards and different farms. There were farmers walls. It had two small windows and counter top to wash dishes. We had lined up to pick up the people. They a sagging door with wooden latch. to go about 200 yards to Andrews’ were dispatched to Raymond, Taber, We had to lift the sagging, creaky house for drinking water. Water from Picture Butte and many other places. door to look inside. There was an old the pond beside the shack was used When we found out that we were broken-down cook stove that a junk for washing dishes and other going to Commissioner Bill Andrews’ man wouldn’t want to cart away. It washing. Horses and cows walked farm, everybody thought we were had only three legs and in place of out into the pond to drink. very lucky. And so, too, did we. They the missing leg were two bricks The cracks in the walls were said the farm was about five miles holding up that corner. The top of the nice in the summer when the weather out of Lethbridge and I thought to stove sagged and the firebox grates was hot; it was like an air conditioner. myself that was not too bad. There were burned off with hardly anything The spring was time for beet thinning, was a nice truck waiting to pick us to hold the coal, so we really had a which was hard work because when up so I thought the farmer must be hard time starting the first fire. After clay soil dries it hardens like concrete. well off. four or five attempts, we finally got Weeding time came after thinning After riding on the back of the knack of starting a fire. There and then was followed by hoeing. the truck going south towards was an old banged-together table and These were all back-breaking tasks. Raymond our luck seems to change, no chairs, just a few apple boxes. We There was a break after hoeing until because five miles passed into more had to get more apple boxes to harvesting time. Beet harvesting was like ten miles until we came to the accommodate everyone. The shack another back-breaking task on a farm airport. From there we turned off onto was partially divided into 3 rooms. with no machinery, which our farmer 18 did not have. That first year, the blast room to move around. It stopped we were allowed to move into of winter came early at the end of most of the wind and snow from Lethbridge and get away from beets. October and we still had beets in the coming through, but it was still cold So that was when our luck ground. We finally finished harvesting without tar-paper and insulation. finally turned for the better. We the beets; at times we had to work in Luckily, I had all my carpenter’s tools, moved out to Vancouver in 1952, but the snow. except for a smooth plane I had after about 18 months we moved Nights were very cold with donated to a charity. Kate Andrews, back to Alberta. We returned to no heater, just that broken-down Bill’s wife, asked for a donation and Vancouver again in 1964 and are still cook stove. We woke up in the as the only thing I had were tools, I enjoying our life here. Our house is mornings with our bed tops white donated the plane. The broken-down still standing in Haney, B.C. We had with fine snow that came through the stove wasn’t very helpful in heating 10 acres of land, which is now all cracks in the walls. I finally went to the shack. subdivided. We had a water tank the commissioner to see if he would Our luck finally turned for the about 30-feet high, which was used do something about it. He finally told better during the third year when one- to irrigate the whole farm. We also us to go to the chicken house to get third of our 25 acres of beets was had two chicken houses; each of the ¼ inch plywood to line the inside damaged because of heavy rain in these buildings was 10-feet by 60- of the shack. There was a 4-feet high the spring that left us with only about feet with tar-paper and siding, electric stack of ¼ inch plywood and yet we 16 acres, which was not enough to lights and running water, so our were not to waste any. We finally support our family. Luckily, we were chickens had a much better place to finished nailing them onto the wall. It able to move to another farm. After live in than our family had on the beet wasn’t easy because everything was moving around to two or three farm in Alberta. a so cramped and there was not much different farms in about three years, The Japanese Canadian National Museum wishes to thank the following people who gave so generously of their time to make the World Premiere screening of “Sleeping Tigers; The Asahi Baseball Story”, the great success that it was: Yash Aura Yumi Matsuda Duane Kamiya Fumi Aura Naomi Kamiya Miwa Komori Avalon Tagami Kay Koyanagi George Yoshihara Tom Tagami David Hasegawa Lillian Yoshihara Josie Matsuba Tyson Nakatsu Mits Goto Yuki Matsuba Bev Yamaura Mary Takeyasu Kiyo Goto Dave Yamaura Frank Takeyasu Kaz Koyanagi Irene Tsuyuki Hiroshi Mizoguchi May Ishikawa Ruby Okano Tamae Oishi Akemi Sakiyama Jordan Usui

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