Feature The Japanese-Canadian
war experience: Part I |
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Japanese Canadians protest at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada,
April 14, 1988. (Photo by Gordon King, courtesy of Arthur Miki.) |
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| Sitting across from me in his office at the
Canadian Department of Immigration in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Arthur
Miki doesn't look or act like the hard-nosed leader of the Redress
movement of two decades ago. |
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| Part II: The Danger
Of Losing The Past |
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| It's quite amazing to find that a country
as young as Canada (136 years young) includes events in its
history that have already been tucked away and require quite
an effort to uncover. |
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Report Kyoto
costume institute |
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If
you happen to be in Kyoto, and need a break from the temples,
tea houses and rock gardens, then you might want to consider
the Kyoto Costume Institute. |
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| Editor's Notes |
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| Terrible things
can happen in times of war. That was shown most acutely in the
recent disclosure of photographs from Iraq's Abu Graib prison
showing American soldiers doing some despicable things to Iraqi
detainees. |
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Column The Japanese
in Iraq: Lessons in integration |
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"Japan
ends slump; storms back to form." Or so it might have read
in the context of some earnest sports publication eager to wrestle
the Monday morning fans from their working hangover. |
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Column The ghosts
of Nagasaki harbor |
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Hearing
the name Nagasaki tends to invoke images of atomic annihilation.
However, the local islands of Hashima, Takashima, and Ioujima
tell their own tales of tragedy. |
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Culture Ca-Fetishism |
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A
sunshine enveloped terrace, a soft breeze rollicking through
open doors, greenery reminiscent of a different time and a different
place, the sweet aroma of memories' blossoms. |
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Column Sandwiched
in Japan |
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| I like sandwiches for lunch. I often eat lunch
in an allotted time near to my office located in a Café-abundant
area of Osaka called Minami-Senba. |
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