The Nikkei Women series introduces you to Mary Kitagawa who is an educator, human rights crusader, and Order of BC recipient. 
Who inspires you to fight for justice? Share your thoughts on social media and tag us.
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Twitter @nikkeimuse
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Host: Julie Tamiko Manning
Sound editing: Matthew Armstrong



Resources
TAIKEN Series: Our Elders, Our Stories
Landscapes of Injustice, Narrative site
Keiko Mary Kitagawa, O.B.C. – UBC Vancouver 2020 Honorary Degree Recipient



This Nikkei Women series was adapted from the Taiken History Mystery card game, an interactive educational card game about surviving the Japanese Canadian internment. Ready-to-play printed sets are available through our museum shop. Or, you can download the files and print your own set.



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The Nikkei Women series introduces you to Margaret Lyons who broke down many barriers for Japanese Canadian women with her successful career in broadcast journalism. 
Let us know who inspires you.  Share your thoughts on social media and tag us.
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Host: Julie Tamiko Manning
Sound editing: Matthew Armstrong



Resources
Margaret Lyons’ autobiography in Nikkei Images



This Nikkei Women series was adapted from the Taiken History Mystery card game, an interactive educational card game about surviving the Japanese Canadian internment. Ready-to-play printed sets are available through our museum shop. Or, you can download the files and print your own set.



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The Nikkei Women series introduces you to Japanese Canadian historian Midge Ayukawa.
Let us know who inspires you.  Share your thoughts on social media and tag us.
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Host: Julie Tamiko Manning
Sound editing: Matthew Armstrong



Resources
Ohanashi Stories of Our Elders -  Midge Ayukawa
Midge Ayukawa Collection
Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941



This Nikkei Women series was adapted from the Taiken History Mystery card game, an interactive educational card game about surviving the Japanese Canadian internment. Ready-to-play printed sets are available through our museum shop. Or, you can download the files and print your own set.



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The Nikkei Women series introduces you to Marie Katsuno who was one of almost 4000 Japanese Canadians deported to Japan after the Second World War.
Do you have relatives who live in Japan? Share your thoughts on social media and tag us.
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Host: Julie Tamiko Manning
Sound editing: Matthew Armstrong



Resources
Ohanashi Stories of Our Elders -  Marie Katsuno
Marie Katsuno Collection



This Nikkei Women series was adapted from the Taiken History Mystery card game, an interactive educational card game about surviving the Japanese Canadian internment. Ready-to-play printed sets are available through our museum shop. Or, you can download the files and print your own set.



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The Nikkei Women series introduces you to Shizuye Takashima, artist and author of A Child in Prison Camp.
Who is your favorite Nikkei artist? Share your thoughts on social media and tag us.
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Sound editing: Matthew Armstrong



Resources
A Child in Prison Camp as well as the Gendai gallery exhibition catalogue, Learning to See: Shizuye Takashima in Retrospect are available in the Nikkei National Museum shop. Visit us in person or place an order online.
Shizuye Takashima Collection



This Nikkei Women series was adapted from the Taiken History Mystery card game, an interactive educational card game about surviving the Japanese Canadian internment. Ready-to-play printed sets are available through our museum shop. Or, you can download the files and print your own set.



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The Nikkei Women series introduces you to Hide Hyodo Shimizu, an activist and teacher.
Do you have a favourite Japanese Canadian activist? Share your thoughts on social media and tag us.
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Host: Julie Tamiko Manning
Sound editing: Matthew Armstrong



Resources
Video: 1936 scrapbook from the Hide Hyodo Shimizu collection - Treasures from the Vault, episode 4
Hide Hyodo Shimizu collection



This Nikkei Women series was adapted from the Taiken History Mystery card game, an interactive educational card game about surviving the Japanese Canadian internment. Ready-to-play printed sets are available through our museum shop. Or, you can download the files and print your own set.



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The Nikkei Women series introduces you to Muriel Kitagawa, an eloquent voice for the Canada-born nisei generation.
Muriel’s book This is My Own is available at the Nikkei National Museum shop in-person or by ordering online. 
Do you have a favorite Japanese Canadian writer or book? Share your thoughts on social media and tag us.
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Host: Julie Tamiko Manning
Sound editing: Matthew Armstrong



Resources
Video: The New Canadian Newspaper - Treasures from the Vault, episode 3
Ed and Muriel Kitagawa Collection



This Nikkei Women series was adapted from the Taiken History Mystery card game, an interactive educational card game about surviving the Japanese Canadian internment. Ready-to-play printed sets are available through our museum shop. Or, you can download the files and print your own set.



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The Nikkei Women series introduces you to Hanako Sato, who immigrated to Canada in 1921 to teach at the Vancouver Japanese Language School. 
Who was your favorite teacher? Share your thoughts on social media and tag us.
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Host: Julie Tamiko Manning
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Resources
Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall
Nikkei Stories video
Tsutae and Hanako Sato fonds
Centennial memories : Vancouver Japanese language school and Japanese hall, 1906-2006 out of print



This Nikkei Women series was adapted from the Taiken History Mystery card game, an interactive educational card game about surviving the Japanese Canadian internment. Ready-to-play printed sets are available through our museum shop. Or, you can download the files and print your own set.



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The Nikkei Women series introduces you to Kinori Oka (née Shinohara) who arrived in Canada as a picture bride.
If you are listening to this podcast at the time of release you may like to check out an event all about picture brides on August 11, 2021. https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/events/picture-brides-2021/
Do you know anyone who was a picture bride? Send us an email to jcnm@nikkeiplace.org.
Host: Julie Tamiko Manning
Sound editing: Matthew Armstrong



Resources
PICTURE BRIDES 写婚妻 (E-pub)
Nikkei Images, picture bride issue (PDF)
Sounds Japanese Canadian To Me, picture bride episode (podcast)



This Nikkei Women series was adapted from the Taiken History Mystery card game, an interactive educational card game about surviving the Japanese Canadian internment. Ready-to-play printed sets are available through our museum shop. Or, you can download the files and print your own set.



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The Nikkei Women series introduces you to Irene Uchida,  a world-famous down syndrome researcher.
If you are listening to this podcast at the time of release and live near Burnaby, we welcome you to visit the Nikkei National Museum gallery to explore the Iron Willed: Women in STEM exhibition. It runs till October 2, 2021. 
Host: Julie Tamiko Manning
Sound editing: Matthew Armstrong



Resources
Ingenium, Iron Willed: Women in STEM exhibition portfolio page and posters
https://womeninstem.ingeniumcanada.org/portfolio-item/irene-2-ayako-uchida/
https://womeninstem.ingeniumcanada.org/posters/
Short film by science cartoonist Armin Mortazavi and collaborating  scientist  Samantha  Baglot  for  Her  Story:  CanadianWomen Scientists  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVzqfGmeaQo
CBC, The Secret Life of Canada podcast: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1307340355550
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/irene-uchida
http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=21
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(13)00418-7
https://vitacollections.ca/multiculturalontario/exhibit.asp?id=480&PID=11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Uchida



This Nikkei Women series was adapted from the Taiken History Mystery card game, an interactive educational card game about surviving the Japanese Canadian internment. Ready-to-play printed sets are available through our museum shop. Or, you can download the files and print your own set.



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During the run of the “Iron Willed: Women in STEM” exhibition, we will be sharing stories of Nikkei Women. Lives of remarkable Japanese Canadian women who have survived through the Japanese Canadian internment. Subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform so you don’t miss an episode and tune in weekly.
Host: Julie Tamiko Manning
Sound editing: Matthew Armstrong



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In contrast to the larger and more concentrated communities in pre-War Powell Street or Steveston, Japanese Canadians in Marpole tended to intermingle more with non-Japanese. Former residents, descendants and associates talk about the positive and negative aspects of interactions with neighbours at school, shopping, and sports.



Writer and host: Raymond Nakamura
Researcher: Linda Kawamoto Reid
Editing and original music: Itamar Sitbon
Image: Marpole Basketball Team, ca.1941. From left to right, the young men are identified as Jinx Miike, Mush Fukumoto, Curly Nakagawa, Mr Fujioka, and Sub Miike. JCCC 2014.02.01.06



Resources
Search for oral histories from the NNM collection.



This podcast is made possible through financial support from the Yosef Wosk Publication Fund at Vancouver Heritage Foundation, and TECHNATION Career Ready Program.




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Listen to a variety of former residents, their descendants and associates talk about the work experiences of Japanese Canadians living in pre-War Marpole. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Japanese Canadian settlers arrived in Marpole to work at sawmills or in fishing. Though discriminatory laws and practises limited the occupations available to them, the transportation system allowed Japanese Canadians from Marpole to work as gardeners or housekeepers in more affluent Kerrisdale or as bakers and shopkeepers in the large Japanese Canadian enclave around Powell Street.



Writer and host: Raymond Nakamura
Researcher: Linda Kawamoto Reid
Editing and original music: Itamar Sitbon
This podcast is made possible through financial support from the Yosef Wosk Publication Grant, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, and TECHNATION Career Ready Program.
Image: Baby with chickens in Barb Miiko Gravlin’s grandfather's backyard. The baby is unidentified. Courtesy of Barb Miike Gravlin.



Resources
Search for oral histories from the NNM collection
Note about euphemisms
Terms such as evacuation or relocation were used since the 1940s. We recommend the term internment due to its recognizability and common usage in the community. Forced dispersal is the preferred blanket term for any of the events related to government policies against Japanese Canadians in the 1940s, especially those that required them to leave the west coast. It includes those who went to internment camps, work camps, sugar beet farms, or anywhere else. Forced removal or forced uprooting are also acceptable terms.



This podcast is made possible through financial support from the Yosef Wosk Publication Fund at Vancouver Heritage Foundation, and TECHNATION Career Ready Program.




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Conversations with former Marpole residents such as writer Joy Kogawa, and David Suzuki’s father, Carr Suzuki, as well as other descendants and associates shed light on pre-War Marpole as a home to Japanese Canadians. Drawing from records recently made available through the Landscapes of Injustice project, subjects range from celebratory stories of birth and marriage, to tragedies of illness, accidents, and abuse.
Warning: this episode mentions the sexual abuse of children.
For more information about the Anglican Healing Fund, please contact jcworkinggroup@gmail.com
Excerpt from the Jack Benny Show courtesy of the Internet Archive



Writer and host: Raymond Nakamura
Researcher: Linda Kawamoto Reid
Editing and original music: Itamar Sitbon
This podcast is made possible through financial support from the Yosef Wosk Publication Grant, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, and TECHNATION Career Ready Program.
Image: L-R: Yachiyo Miike and Mitsuye Miike in front of neighbour’s house in Marpole. Circa 1929. Courtesy of Barb Miike Gravlin.



Resources
Search for oral histories from the NNM collection
Landscapes of Injustice
Historic Joy Kogawa House



This podcast is made possible through financial support from the Yosef Wosk Publication Fund at Vancouver Heritage Foundation, and TECHNATION Career Ready Program.




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We introduce you to a new podcast series Marpole Monogatari on Life at Home, Work, and in the Community for Japanese Canadians in pre-War Marpole, Vancouver, British Columbia.



Writer and host: Raymond Nakamura
Researcher: Linda Kawamoto Reid
Editing and original music: Itamar Sitbon
This podcast is made possible through financial support from the Yosef Wosk Publication Grant, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, and TECHNATION Career Ready Program.
Image: Map of Marpole, ca. 1914. Created by Dominion Map Limited (Vancouver, B.C.). City of Vancouver Archives MAP 910



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NNM 2011.19.9 Roy Kumano with the Gakuyukai Harmonica Band; Vancouver, BC




SJCTM - 23 - Harmonicas
The harmonica was the musical instrument of choice for young nisei Japanese Canadian men in the 1930s and 1940s. Raymond and Carolyn look at some reasons why it became so iconic for this generation, some of the more prominent players, and story of the Lemon Creek Harmonica Band.
Outro music for this episode: excerpt from Lemon Creek Harmonica Band, "You Are My Sunshine". 2001 recording.
Further reading:
Eyers, Tony. "Harmonica History - from China to the Blues".
Ibuki, Norm Masaji. "The Lemon Creek Harmonica Band Plays On 65 Years Later". Discover Nikkei: 12 Aug 2009.
Moritsugu, Frank. "Archives: A Treasure Trove to Mirror Our Colourful Past". Nikkei Images 5.2 (Summer 2000).
Nakagawa, Carolyn. Harry Aoki Legacy Project. UBC Blogs. Web.

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SJCTM - 28 - Mixed Heritage
It's not alien, it's utopian! In this episode, Raymond and Carolyn discuss the history, the social politics, and the experience of having mixed heritage. From the reasons for so many Japanese Canadians being of mixed heritage, to describing yourself as "half", "mixed", or of course "hapa", even to the level of your own name, having mixed heritage is a complicated experience. This double-sized episode of Sounds Japanese Canadian to Me is just one part of a huge and continuously evolving conversation.
Further reading:
Dariotis, Wei Ming. "Hapa: The Word of Power". Mixed Heritage Center.
Donella, Leah. "'Racial Imposter Syndrome': Here Are Your Stories". NPR
Johnson, Akemi. "Who Gets To Be 'Hapa'?". NPR.
Laughlin, Alex. "'Half Asian'? 'Half White'? No — 'Hapa'". NPR.
Milan, Anne, Hélène Maheux, and Tina Chui. "A portrait of couples in mixed unions". Statistics Canada.
Porzucki, Nina. "How the Hawaiian word 'hapa' came to be used by people of mixed heritage". The World in Words.
Solomon, Scott. "The future is mixed-race". Aeon.
Stearns, Jeff Chiba. Website.  One Big Hapa Family.

SJCTM - 27 - Hastings Park 1942 
It's not all fun and games at The Fair. In this episode, Raymond is joined by guest Erica Isomura to talk about Hastings Park in East Vancouver, better known as the PNE Fairgrounds, and its role for Japanese Canadians from up the coast and Vancouver Island in internment.
Additional resources:
Hastings Park Commemorative & Education Committee. Internment at Hastings Park. HastingsPark1942.ca
Hastings Park comic by Raymond Nakamura. http://hastingspark1942.ca/words-images/through-artists-eyes/raymond-nakamura/

Taiko drum performance; Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario; 1988. NNM 2010.32.39

SJCTM - 26 - Taiko
In this episode, Raymond and Carolyn explore the fascinating history of Japanese taiko drumming, from its ancient roots in folk culture to the emergence of taiko ensembles in both Japan and North America after the Second World War. Taiko ensembles first began in North America in the 1970s, and were closely tied to Asian American and Asian Canadian political activism.
 

SJCTM - 25 - Dressmaking
Sewing was an important occupation for Japanese Canadian women before and during the Second World War, not only to clothe themselves and their families, but also as one of the few professions which was not barred to them in the racist climate of the time. Many pre-war issei and nisei women were skilled technicians, attending schools to learn how to draft their own patterns. In this episode, Raymond and Carolyn discuss some of what they learned about this history from the Nikkei National Museum's online exhibit, Our Mother's Patterns.
View the online Our Mother's Patterns exhibit