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Landscapes of Injustice
Vote to rebuild Japanese teahouse
Newly uncovered documents from UVic's Landscapes of Injustice team reveal the "wanton destruction" of Canada's first Japanese gardens and teahouse in Esquimalt's Gorge Park. A new campaign seeks to rebuild the historical teahouse and raise awareness of this chapter in local history.
Long-lost letters from interned Japanese-Canadians
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Long-lost letters from interned Japanese-Canadians
300 letters of protest
A recent discovery has given Judy Hanazawa some of her family's history back. Now 70, Hanazawa knew little of their experiences during the Second World War. Some 300 letters of protest from Japanese Canadians, rediscovered as part of the UVic-led Landscapes of Injustice project, reflect the outrage of dispossession.
Landscapes of Injustice
It's not every day museum staff from Vancouver travel thousands of kilometres to a southeastern state in the US known for its Appalachian mountains and humid swamp forests to bring home priceless family heirlooms related to Japanese-Canadian history in BC. Sherri Kajiwara and Linda Kawamoto Reid of the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre (NNMCC) in Burnaby did exactly that last fall.
WWII: Landscapes of Injustice
A multi-partner, seven-year, $5.5-million research project, Landscapes of Injustice, announced by UVic on Aug. 27 will culminate in an interactive travelling museum exhibition to tell the story of dispossession of Japanese Canadians.
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