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Tatsuo Kage

Tatsuo Kage is the author of Nikkei Kanadajin no Tsuiho, translated into English as Uprooted Again: Japanese Canadians Move to Japan After World War II by Kathleen Chisato Merken. Born in Japan, Kage studied German history in Japan and Germany, eventually becoming an academic specializing in European political and diplomatic history. Kage worked as a […]

Ernie Yamaoka

Ernest (Ernie) Nobuichi Yamaoka was born in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. At fifteen, on December 25, 1920, he made the lonely and arduous sea voyage to Victoria, British Columbia. He began his life in Canada as a houseboy and through hard work and determination earned a high school Governor General’s medal award and a University of […]

Densaku (Fred) Kondo

Densaku (Fred) Kondo was a painter, known for his piece ‘Evacuation’ which is in the collection of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto. He was born in the Shiga prefecture of Japan in 1899. He married Tsune Ebata in 1929, and the couple had one daughter, Hiroko (Betty). He exhibited in Vancouver as early […]