Journalism

Masaki Watanabe

Masaki Watanabe is a journalist/translator and a jazz musician with an international background. Born in Tokyo in 1945 to a Japanese Finnish father and a Japanese mother, he graduated from International Christian University in 1966 after which he joined Reuters news agency in London. He has since worked as a Reuters correspondent in North America […]

David Suzuki

David Suzuki is a renowned environmental activist, and the author of 52 books, including 19 for children. A geneticist by training, Suzuki has become well-known as a broadcaster and spokesperson for environmental conservation. His autobiography looks at his family’s history in Canada, including their experience in Slocan internment camp during the 1940s, when Suzuki was […]

Frank Moritsugu

Frank Moritsugu is a Nisei journalist and author of Teaching in Canadian Exile: a History of the Schools for Japanese-Canadian Children in British Columbia Detention Camps During the Second World War (2001), with the Ghost Town Teachers Historical Society. Moritsugu grew up in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kitsilano, and attended Kitsilano Secondary, where he was […]

Kathlyn Horibe

Kathlyn Horibe was a journalist and editor who published with magazines and newspapers in Canada, the United States, Europe, and New Zealand. She was also the author of Toronto Disasters: Devastation and Tragedies that Made the Headlines. She worked in management before changing her career to become a writer and editor of corporate communications and […]

Ken Adachi

Ken Adachi was the author of the seminal history of Japanese Canadians, The Enemy That Never Was (1976). A journalist by profession, Adachi was commissioned to write the book by the National Association of Japanese Canadians. He was born in British Columbia in 1928, and he and his family were forcibly removed from Vancouver to […]