Visit to the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre
On Friday, November 17, 2023, the program participants visited the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Guided around the museum by Executive Director Karah Goshinmon Foster and Director Louise Akuzawa, they viewed an exhibition introducing the history and current situation of Japanese Canadians, including the formation of their livelihood after migration and their forced removal from Vancouver during World War II.
The comments from the participants included the following: “I’ve learned that our Japanese ancestors have extended their identity to Canada, making me more aware of the Japan-Canada relationship” and “In Canada, called a salad bowl of immigrants, there are children with one parent from Japan and the other parent from another country, and the situation is too complicated to simply categorize immigrants into, for example, Japanese-Canadians. I feel that the word “Canadian” does not simply concern a human race.”
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