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Mission

Our mission is to collect, preserve, interpret and exhibit artifacts and archives relating to the history of Japanese Canadians from the 1870s through the present, and to communicate to all the Japanese Canadian experience and contribution as an integral part of Canada's heritage and multicultural society.

Nikkei Images 2006

Vol. 11, No. 1 Spring 2006

  • pp. 1-3 “A Journal Comes of Age: a decade of Nikkei Images” by Michael C. Wilson
  • pp. 3-5 “Reminiscing about the Steveston Japanese Language School and Moncton Street” by Miyo Saito
  • pp. 5-7 “Steveston Japanese School” by Harold Steves
  • pp. 7-9 “Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall” by Francis Motohisa Niiro
  • pp. 9-12 “From ‘Bridge Across the Pacific’ to ‘Global Citizen’: Japanese as a Heritage Language in Canada” by Hiroko Noro, Ph.D.
  • pp. 12-13 “Osaka Science Centre Hosts Kusaka Symposium” by Victor Kusaka
  • pp. 13-17 “Journey as an Artist” by Joyce Kamikura
  • pp. 17-18 “Japanese Canadian National Museum Report – Spring 2006” by Timothy Savage
  • pp. 18-23 “Yoshio Johnny Makokoro (Part 1)” by Dennis Madokoro
  • pp. 24-24 “Gordon Ryo Kadota Awarded Order of Rising Sun” by Stan Fukawa
  • pp. 24-25 “Valuing Our Heritage: It’s Your Choice” by Reiko Egami [re: items in Museum collection]
  • p. 25 “Suian Maru Centennial Update” by Stan Fukawa
  • pp. 26-28 Botched Japanese language article – software problems. Reprinted in Autumn 2006 issue. “Kami ga watashi o Nihon ni tsukawasareta” by Ikuye Uchida. In English, Summer 2004.
  • p. 28 Membership

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Vol. 11, No. 2 Summer 2006

  • pp. 1-3 “Oikawa Nappa – a Nikkei Heritage Spring Vegetable” by Stan Fukawa
  • pp. 3-4 “Japanese Canadian National Museum and Its Origins” by Frank Hanano
  • pp. 4-5 “Japanese Canadian History Preservation Committee, 1984-1988” by Dan Tokawa
  • pp. 5-6 “A Heartwarming Story About Searching Family Roots” by Stan Fukawa [re: Japanese searching Canadian roots]
  • pp. 6-9 “Beaconsfield Book of the Month Meeting: a talk with Dr. James Hasegawa”
  • pp. 10-16 “Yoshio Johnny Madokoro (Part 2)” by Dennis Madokoro
  • pp. 16-17 “Japanese Canadian National Museum Report – Summer 2005” by Tim Savage
  • pp. 17-18 “The Naming of Minoru Park in Richmond, BC” by Jack Lowe
  • p. 18 “’Images of Internment’ Exhibition Opening” by Frank Kamiya
  • pp. 19-21 “Senji Nakamura” by Sakuya Nishimura [re: Japanese youth in Canada 1906-1910]
  • pp. 21-24 “Yama Sen no Bankuba Jidai” by Sakuya Nishimura [Japanese version of previous article]
  • p. 24 Memberships

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Vol. 11, No. 3 Autumn 2006

  • pp. 1-2 “Portland Japanese Garden” by Christine Kondo
  • pp. 3-4 “The Japanese Garden at Dinner Bay, Mayne Island” by Alan Cheek
  • pp. 4-5 “Seattle Japanese Garden” by Christine Kondo
  • pp. 5-6 “Maestro Derrick Inouye” by Stan Fukawa
  • pp. 6-12 “Yoshio Johnny Madokoro (Part 1)” by Dennis Madokoro [mistaken repeat from Spring 2006]
  • pp. 12-19 “Post-War Japanese Immigrants and their involvement in the Community” by Tatsuo Kage
  • pp. 20-25 “Remembrances of New Denver, 1942-1946” by Roy Yasui [re: first winter in a tent]
  • pp. 25-27 “My Dual Affiliations with Japan and Canada” by Miho T. Steinberg
  • pp. 27-28 “Oikawa Collection and Suian Maru Descend-ents Return to the Fraser” by Reiko Tagami
  • pp. 29-30 “Masao (Mas) Kawanami 1923-2005” by Roy Kawamoto
  • P 30 “Report on the Annual General Meetinf of the National Nikkei Museum and Heritage Centre” by Cathy Makihara
  • pp. 30-32 “Japanese Familis on Annacis, Don and Lion Islands and Queensborough” by Stan Fukawa
  • pp. 32-36 “Kami ga watashi o Nihon ni tsukasasreta” by Ikuye Uchida [English version, spring 2006]
  • p. 36 Memberships

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Vol. 11, No. 4 Winter 2006

  • pp. 1-3 “Mr. Nishikaze’s Rock Garden: an Obsession” by Henry Shimizu [re: a New Denver garden]
  • pp. 3-5 “A Legacy of Teaching” by Patricia Tanaka
  • p. 5 “Greg Miyanaga, a Master Teacher” by Masako Fukawa
  • pp. 6-11 “Yoshio Johnny Madokoro (Part 3)” by Dennis Madokoro
  • pp. 11-13 “Ian Alistair Mackenzie” by Mary Taylor
  • pp. 13-14 “A Book Review of ‘A Black Mark’” by Margaret Lyons (nee Inouye)
  • pp. 14-16 “Seattle’s Nihonmachi Past Found at the Panama Hotel” by Carl Yokota
  • pp. 16-17 “Fraser River Shad” by Terry Slack and Mitsuo Yesaki
  • pp. 18-20 “My History of Ochazuke” by Shane Foster
  • pp. 21-22 “35 Year History of the Gladstone Nippongo Gakuen and Japanese Language Education in BC” by Yoko Murakami
  • pp. 22-24 “Remembering Oikawa Jima and Sato Jima, BC” by Stan Fukawa
  • pp. 24-25 “Japanese Canadian National Museum – Fall/Summer 2006 Highlights by Tim Savage
  • pp. 25-26 “Mrs. Takenaka and the Writings of Mikio Higashi” by Sakuya Nishimura
  • p. 26 “Many Thanks to Suian Maru Supporters, Donors”
  • pp. 27-28 “Kanbarando” in Japanese by Sakuya Nishimura summary history of Japanese in Cumberland from 1892 to 1940.
  • p. 28 Memberships

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