From Slocan to Hong Kong: An Architect’s Journey
James H. Kinoshita
SOLD OUT
290 pages softcover ISBN 9781425122447 $25
A memoir of a Japanese Canadian, born in Vancouver and sent to internment camp in the Slocan Valley during the war. It describes how and why his ancestors came to Canada from Japan, his early life in Vancouver and in the internment camp and his experience as a houseboy to further his education. Studying architecture at University of Manitoba and winning a scholarship to MIT, he worked for three years in America before he set off to Hong Kong to ask for his sweetheart’s hand.
伝説の 野球ティーム バンクーバー朝日物語 
後藤 紀夫 (著)
単行本、岩波書店
人種 差別と戦争の時代、日系カナダ人の誇りであった伝説のティームの誕生・栄光・消滅、そして『復活』まで。
$25
A Dream of Riches
Japanese Canadian Centennial Project
191 pages. Hardcover. ISBN 0-9690708-0-2 $20.00
A Dream of Riches is the permanent record of the Japanese Canadians 1877-1977 exhibit, which celebrated the centennial of the arrival of the first known immigrant from Japan, Manzo Nagano. This book consists of some of the 4,000 photographs collected by the Japanese Canadian Centennial Project as well as interviews of Japanese Canadians from across the country.
A Historical Guide to the Steveston Waterfront
Mitsuo Yesaki.
34 pages. Softcover. ISBN 0-9686799-2-7 $12
This guide describes the development of the one and half mile extent of the Steveston waterfront from the late 1880s to 1971. A short description is given of each section of the waterfront, as well as maps for 1889, 1897, 1911, 1936 and 1971. These maps show the locations of salmon canneries, public wharves and significant businesses on each section. Several photographs, mostly from 1971, show the character of the waterfront.
A White Man’s Province
Patricia E. Roy
345 pages. Softcover. ISBN 0774803738 $32.95
A White Man’s Province examines how British Columbians changed their attitudes towards Asian immigrants from one of toleration in colonial times to vigorous hostility by the turn of the century and describes how politicians responded to popular cries to halt Asian immigration and restrict Asian activities in the province.
Across Currents: Canada-Japan Minority Forum
Edited by Roy Miki and Rita Wong, photos by Randy Enomoto
109 pages. Softcover. ISBN 0-9694168-1-4 $10
In Across Currents – the proceedings of a unique forum – cultural activists from Japan and Canada come together to compare and examine issues of mutual importance. Contributors: Akehiko Asai, Mieko Chikkup, Meerai Cho, Paggie Cho, Gloria Cranmer, Kinsei Ishigaki, Yasmin Jiwani, Bryce Kanbara, Betty Lough, Teresa Marshall, Keibo Oiwa, Haruko Okano, Millie Poplar, Shigeki Takeo, Loretta Todd, Henry Tsang, Victor Wong, Jin-me Yoon.
An Evacuee’s Memoir – An Account from the Writer’s Own Recollection
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Yutaka Harold Yoneyama, B.A.Sc.,P.Eng
ProFamilia Publishing, Toronto, 2008. ISBN 978-1-896596-15-0 $39.95
A Japanese Canadian born in Haney, British Columbia, whose years as a young man were directly affected by the turmoil of World War II and the federal government’s uprooting and dispersal of Japanese Canadians, the author and his family overcame challenges in establishing themselves anew, and contributed to Canada’s development. Against the prevailing social and political odds, the author and his three sisters successfully pursued careers in the fields of civil engineering, medicine, dentistry and optometry. Illustrated with 96 photographs, 3 family charts and 20 maps/documents.
Battlefield at Last
The Japanese Canadian Volunteers of the First World War, 1914-1918
Kaye Kishibe
Softback 56 pages ISBN 9780981259703 2007 $14.95
Beclouded Visions: Hiroshima-Nagasaki and the Art of Witness
Kyo Maclear
213 pages. Hardcover. ISBN 0791440052 $28
Beclouded Visions is an exploration of the many and varied ways in which atrocity has shaped the requirements of art, vision, and collective memory in the twentieth century. The atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki serve as a starting point, but what begins as a study of visual culture related to the atomic bombings soon generates questions that can be applied to multiple sites and practices of communal remembrance.
Breaking Trail
Tom Morimoto
296 pages. Softcover. ISBN: 189725217X $24.99
When he was a boy, Tom Morimoto saved up a dollar and ordered a book called How to Box so he could defend himself against the kids who called him “Jap.” Morimoto lived through a historic period before the modern age changed the North forever. He describes his childhood growing up in Depression-era Fort McMurray. As a young man, Morimoto worked on an Athabasca River scow and as a radio operator for Canadian Airways before traveling to Yellowknife to stake gold claims and work in the Negus gold mine. His next adventure found him serving as a signalman during the Second World War, and surviving Juno Beach on D-Day. Later, Morimoto became a chemical engineer, a pioneer in the burgeoning gas industry in Alberta. He eventually managed a gas plant in Dubai. Breaking Trail is a rich memoir from a man who has experienced much of what the twentieth century offered northern and western Canada.
Coldstream: The Ranch Where It All Began
Donna Yoshitake Wuest
182 pages. Softcover. ISBN 978-1-55017-343-7 $28.95
Coldstream Ranch on the outskirts of the Okanagan city of Vernon, wasn’t always crowded in the ‘burbs. One of the oldest continually operating ranches in Canada, it was on the far edge of the far West when Charles Houghton founded it to provision the Cariboo Gold Rush in 1863. It’s been operating so long Vernon is actually named after its second owners, the Vernon brothers. For decades it was owned by a succession of British bluebloods, including the quixotic Lord Aberdeen, who resigned his appointment as Governor General after he and his profligate brother-in-law Coutts squandered a fortune on grandiose schemes at Coldstream. Nevertheless, they proved dry belt soil could be turned into fine farmland with the aid of irrigation and pioneered the region’s world-renowned orchard industry.
David Suzuki: The Autobiography
David Suzuki
400 pages. softcover. ISBN: 978-1553652816 $22.95
The first volume of David Suzuki’s autobiography, Metamorphosis, looked back at his life from 1986 when he was 50. In this eagerly awaited second installment, Suzki, now 70, reflects on his entire life–and on his hopes for the future. The book begins with his life-changing encounters with racism while interned in a Canadian concentration camp during World War II and continues through his troubled teenage years and later successes as a scientist and host of PBS’s The Nature of Things. With characteristic candor and passion, he describes his growing consciousness of the natural world and humankind’s precarious place in it; his travels throughout the world and his meetings with international leaders, from Nelson Mandela to the Dalai Lama; and the abiding role of nature and family in his life. David Suzuki is an intimate and inspiring look at one of the most uncompromising people on the planet.
Democracy Betrayed: The Case For Redress
National Association of Japanese Canadians
26 pages softcover $5
(Only Available in Japanese)
A submission to the Government of Canada on the violation of rights and freedoms of Japanese Canadians during and after World War II, by the National Association of Japanese Canadians.
Ganbaru – the Murakami Family of Salt Spring Island
Rose Murakami
40 pages Softcover ISBN 0-9737814-0-8 $5.95
Rose Murakami tells the inspiring story of her family in this book. Pioneers on Salt Spring Island, were incarcerated in 1942 and forced to spend years of their lives in filthy, cold and crowded prison camps. Their bank accounts were frozen. Their land and possessions were seized and sold without their consent for a tiny fraction of their value. The proceeds were used to pay the costs of their incarceration. The Murakami family lost everything. With incredible courage and determination, they finally returned to Salt Spring Island in 1945. When they could not regain the land that had been taken from them they started from scratch, building a good life in the face of enduring racism. The Murakamis are the only Japanese Canadian family to return to the Gulf Islands, to start over and to stay.
Gathering Our Heritage 
31 pages Softcover ISBN 1-896627-12-9 $5
This book is written by the Victoria Nikkei Cultural Society (VNCS), which was formed in 1993 for people who are interested in Japanese culture. It contains everything you need to know about harvesting seaweed, including information on how and when to gather Nori (seaweed), basic biology facts with its nutritional value along with some recipes involving the use of Nori.
Getting a Grip 
Joseph R. Svinth
300 pages Softcover ISBN 0-9689673-0-2 $32.95 $20
This book is about the sports that the Nisei played. It focuses on the influence of judo in the lives of young Nisei males in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. This book describes the increase in popularity of judo through time.
Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941
Michiko Midge Ayukawa.
208 pages Softcover ISBN 9780774814324 $32.95
Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941 is a fascinating investigation of Japanese migration to Canada prior to the Second World War. It makes Japanese-language scholarship on the subject available for the first time, and also draws on interviews, diaries, community histories, biographies, and the author’s own family history.
History of Haney Nokai
Yasutaro Yamaga
134 pages Softcover ISBN: 0-9733049-1-x $20
In the years before the Second World War, a strong Japanese Canadian farming community established itself in the Fraser Valley. The farmers and their families worked together, forming co-operatives and similar organizations to better promote and distribute their produce. One such organization was the Haney Nokai – the Haney Japanese Canadian farmers’ association. In a meeting just prior to the outbreak of the war in the Pacific, the Haney Nokai executive committed to writing a history of the Haney Nokai. Twenty years later, after surviving the hardships of internment and re-establishing their lives and livelihoods, the Haney Nokai executive fulfilled their promise and published the Japanese language Haney Nokai Shi (History of Haney Nokai) in 1963.
Images of Internment: A Bitter-sweet Memoir in Words and Images
Dr. Henry Shimizu
68 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-1-896627-16-8 $22.95
In 1999 Dr. Shimizu created a series of oil paintings based on his life in New Denver. As a teenager he lived with his family in the internment camp at New Denver from 1942 to 1946. Each of these 27 pictures are reproduced on a full page, with a story on the facing page.
Internment and Redress: The Japanese Canadian Experience
A Resource Guide for Social Studies 11 Teachers
Developed By Masako Fukawa, Richard Beardsley, Bruce Kiloh, Richard Per, Jane Turner and Mike Whittingham.
138 pages Softcover $19.20
The goals of this resource guide are: to foster historical empathy and a sense of justice regarding the suffering of others; to develop a historical understanding of some of the significant events in Canada during the Second World War; to encourage meaningful participation in Canada’s legal and democratic institutions; to develop an understanding of the physical, emotional and economic hardships endured by Japanese Canadians before, during and after the Second World War; and to teach students how to recognize stereotyping, overgeneralization and discrimination.
more info www.japanesecanadianhistory.net
Internment and Redress: The Story of Japanese Canadians
A Resource Guide for Teachers of the Intermediate Grades Social Studies 5 and Social Responsibility
Developed By Masako Fukawa, Greg Miyanaga, Susan Sayuri Nishi and Patricia Tanaka.
130 pages Softcover $18.20
The materials presented in this resource support many of the learning outcomes contained in the Social Studies Five Integrated Resource Package and the Social Responsibility Standards for the intermediate grades. The lessons provide students with opportunities to critically reflect upon events and issues in order to make connections with the past, examine the present and hopefully, shape the future. Students examine primary sources: copies of actual photographs, government documents, post cards and personal accounts to make these connections. Their reflections are chronicled in their journals.
more info www.japanesecanadianhistory.net
Japanese Community in Mission: A Brief History 1904-1942
William T. Hashizume
162 pages Softcover ISBN: 0-9733049-0-1 $20
Justice In Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement
Roy Miki and Cassandra Kobayashi
160 pages Softcover ISBN: 9780969475613 $22.50
Justice In Our Time celebrates Japanese Canadian Redress. From the historic injustices, through the redress movement, to the final events leading up to the settlement day on September 22, 1988–the dramatic story of redress is told through a rich interweaving of commentary, photographs, quotations, and historic documents.
Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows: A History in Photographs
Donald E. Waite
Temporarily Out of Stock (new shipment in the fall)
288 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9697085-8-2 $35
This is a wonderful new book of photographs and stories by Don Waite Don has assembled a collection of rarely seen photos – particularly older aerial photos – and has retouched them to their original splendor.
Memories of Our Past: A Brief History and Walking Tour of Powell Street
Audrey Kobayashi
48 pages Softcover ISBN: 0-9696587-0-2 $6
Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka, edited by Daphne Marlatt
190 pages Softcover ISBN 1-896300-24-3 $16.95
In 1993 Mary Kiyooka sat with her son Roy Kiyooka, one of Canada’s most important avant-garde painters, and a tape recorder and in her native Japanese shared her memories with him—her childhood in Japan, her arrival as a married woman in Canada, and her family’s experience in Alberta during the Japanese internment period.
Nikkei In The Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans & Japanese Canadians In The Twentieth Century
Edited by Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura
348 pages softcover ISBN 0295984619 $29.95
Challenging the notion that Nikkei individuals before and during World War II were helpless pawns manipulated by forces beyond their control, the diverse essays in this rich collection focus on the theme of resistance within Japanese American and Japanese Canadian communities to twentieth-century political, cultural, and legal discrimination. They illustrate how Nikkei groups were mobilized to fight discrimination through assertive legal challenges, community participation, skillful print publicity, and political and economic organization. Comprised of all-new and original research, this is the first anthology to highlight the contributions and histories of Nikkei within the entire Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia.
Nikkei Journey – Japanese Canadians in Southern Alberta
N. Rochelle Yamagishi
207 pages Softcover ISBN 1-4120-5935–6 $23.95
This book was written as a follow-up to the museum exhibit, “Nikkei Tapestry: The Story of Japanese Canadians in Southern Alberta,” which was presented at the Sir Alexander Galt Museum in Lethbridge, AB in 2003. Ten stories have been written from first-person perspectives, telling what it was really like for pioneers, evacuees, and their descendants to be Japanese Canadian. In addition, there are stories about the new immigrants who came to work on farms in the 1970s, and the Redress movement, finalized in 1988. The stories are all true, taken from books, conversations, and interviews, and interwoven to produce composite characters representing different generational groups, each with their own unique experiences and viewpoints.
Race, Racialization, and Antiracism in Canada and Beyond
Edited by Genevieve Fuji Johnson and Randy Enomoto
252 pages Softcover ISBN 9780802095046 $35
This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and activists to examine expressions of racism in contemporary policy areas, including education, labour, immigration, media, and urban planning. While anti-racist struggles during the twentieth century were largely pitched against overt forms of racism (e.g., pogroms, genocide, segregation, apartheid, and ‘ethnic cleansing’), it has become increasingly apparent that there are other, less visible, forms of racism. These subtler incarnations are of special interest to the contributors. The intent of Race, Racialization, and Antiracism in Canada and Beyond is to probe systemic forms of racism, as well as to suggest strategies for addressing them. The collection is organized by themes pertinent to political and social expressions of racism in Canada and the wider world, such as the state and its mediation of race, education and the perpetuation of racist marginalization, and the role of the media. The contributors argue that, in order to effectively combat racism, various methodological approaches are required, approaches that are reflective of the diversity of the world we seek to understand.
Redress: Inside The Japanese Canadian Call for Justice
Roy Miki
361 pages ISBN 1-55192-650-4 $5.50 soft cover
This book achieves what it promises: it presents the inside story of the long struggle for redress by Japanese Canadians, told through the perspective of an insider- a member of one of the hundreds of families forcibly removed from the west coast during World War II. For this small group of citizens, shattered by the racist policies of the federal government, and divided internally, the redress movement enabled them to achieve a settlement that is unique in Canadian history. As a participant of the movement, Miki draws on a wealth of research sources as he takes readers through the events that led to the settlement.
Road to the Pinnacle
Pat Adachi
83 pages Softcover $19.95
Chronicles the famed Asahi baseball teams which played in British Columbia during the prewar period and are honored in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
Shaku of Wondrous Grace
Art Miki, Henry Kojima & Sylvia Jansen
99 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-0-9694756-4-4 $15
It is the story of one among many ordinary and heroic stories of the Japanese Canadians who have helped shape Canada. This new biography traces the history of the remarkable Yoshimaru Abe, and in doing so pays tribute to the remarkable history of the people of Abe’s generation.
Spirit of Redress: Japanese Canadians in Conference
Edited by Cassandra Kobayashi and Roy Miki
148 pages Softcover ISBN 0-9694168-0-6 $10
In May, 1987, sixteen months before the historic Redress Settlement on September 22, 1988, Japanese Canadians from across Canada gathered in Vancouver for a national conference. While the justice struggle continued at a high pitch, they turned inward to assess the personal and social impact of the mass uprooting and internment of their community during the 1940s. The conference concluded with a journey back to the past on a bus tour through the B.C. Internment Camp — from Tashme through to Kaslo, New Denver, Slocan City, Sandon, and Greenwood. On the road, many recalled the internment camp days and spoke about their involvement in the movement to redress the injustices of the 1940s.
Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen
Masako Fukawa with Stanley Fukawa and the Nikkei Fishermen’s History Book Committee
256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55017-439-7 $39.95 $35
Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen tells the history of Japanese Canadians in the fishing industry in BC and includes many personal accounts of the experiences and contributions of Nikkei to Canada’s Pacific coast fishery from the 1870s to the present day.
Steveston Cannery Row: An Illustrated History
Mitsuo Yesaki and Harold and Kathy Steves
128 pages Softcover ISBN: 0-9683807-1-9 $24
This book describes the development of the southwest coast of Lulu Island from the arrival of the first Caucasian settlers in the 1800s to the present. The Fraser River supported one of the largest runs of sockeye salmon in the world. The first salmon cannery was built on the Fraser River near New Westminster in 1870 and the number of canneries increased exponentially thereafter. Marshal English built the English Cannery on the Steveston waterfront in 1882.
Sutebusuton: A Japanese Village on the British Columbia Coast
Mitsuo Yesaki
148 pages Softcover ISBN: 0-9686799-3-5 $24
This book traces the immigration of Japanese into the Fraser River fishery from first entry in the 1870s, their immigrant surge in the late 1880s and their dominance by the 1900s. The majority of the Japanese fishermen settled in Steveston where they lived primarily in cannery bunkhouses supervised by Japanese fishing bosses. Each boss supplied his contract fishermen with accommodations, fishing boats and gear for a percentage of their catch. With this fishing boss system, Japanese immigrants with initiative were able to accumulate capital, and to expand into other businesses.
Teaching in Canadian Exile
Frank Moritsugu & the Ghost Town Teachers Historical Society
395 pages Softcover ISBN 0-9688221-0-1 $30
This book uses personal recollections of former teachers and Japanese-Canadian students in the internment camps in B.C. to tell the story of how children in the camps were given an education during the Second World War.
The Best Years: The First 
Japanese Canadian Conference on Aging
Edited by Jacqueline Hayami-Stevens
301 pages Hardcover ISBN: 0-9694756-0-8 $12
The Forgotten History of the Japanese Canadians – Volume I: The Role of Japanese Canadians in the Early Fishing Industry in B.C.
Yuko Shibata, Shoji Matsumoto, Rintaro Hayashi, and Shotaro IIda
85 pages Softcover $10
The Japanese Canadian Redress Legacy: A Community Revitalized
Arthur K. Miki
208 pages Hardcover ISBN: 0-9694756-3-2 $20
This book will serve as a reminder of the many accomplishments and successes achieved by the National Association of Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Redress Foundation and the many Japanese Canadian Organizations and individuals.
The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man’s Province, 1914-41
Patricia E. Roy.
344 pages Softcover ISBN 9780774810111 $32.95
Patricia Roy’s latest book, The Oriental Question, continues her study into why British Columbians — and many Canadians from outside the province — were historically so opposed to Asian immigration. Drawing on contemporary press and government reports and individual correspondence and memoirs, Roy shows how British Columbians consolidated a “white man’s province” from 1914 to 1941 by securing a virtual end to Asian immigration and placing stringent legal restrictions on Asian competition in the major industries of lumber and fishing. While its emphasis is on political action and politicians, the book also examines the popular pressure for such practices and gives some attention to the reactions of those most affected: the province’s Chinese and Japanese residents.
The Triumph of Citizenship – The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
Patricia E. Roy
400 pages. Softcover. ISBN: #9780774813815. $32.95
In this companion volume to A White Man’s Province and The Oriental Question, Patricia E. Roy examines the climax of antipathy to Asians in Canada: the removal of all Japanese Canadians from the BC coast in 1942. The Triumph of Citizenship explains why Canada ignored the rights of Japanese Canadians and placed strict limits on Chinese immigration. This book reminds all Canadians of the values and limits of their citizenship; students of political history and of ethnic relations in particular will find this book compelling.
The Vision Fulfilled (Kanae Rareta Yume) 1894-1994
Edited by Bill Hoshizaki
312 pages Hardcover ISBN: 0-9699229-0-6 $15
Historical sketches of Central Okanagon Japanese Canadian families & community organizations
This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941–1948 
Muriel Kitagawa, Edited by Roy Miki.
304 pages. ISBN: #978-0-88922-230-4. $24.95
This is a collection of letters written by Muriel Kitagawa during this period, as well as statements, essays and manuscripts which arose from Kitagawa’s commitment to write about the injustices of the government’s policies and to educate the Canadian public on the history and perceptions of Japanese Canadians.
Tomekichi Homma
K.T. Homma & C.G. Isaksson
72 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-0-88839-660-0 $14.95
The story of Tomekichi Homma offers a unique perspective that embraces diversity, equality, and justice, and is a testament to the dignity of spirit and perseverance that defined his life. A gentle and gracious man, from an educated and disciplined family tradition, Tomikichi arrived in British Columbia in the 1880s, and quickly became a crusader for justice and dignity for his fellow immigrants. He worked tirelessly throughout his life to change the widespread racial intolerance and restrictions of the time, and to improve his community.
Tsudoi Gatherings 
National Association of Japanese Canadians
71 pages Softcover $5
A symposium for Japanese Canadians in the arts dedicated to the memory of Roy Kiyooka
Watari-dori (Birds of Passage)
Mitsuo Yesaki
175 pages softcover ISBN 0968679943 $15
Watari-Dori is a historical novel of a fifteen-year old Japanese immigrant’s first six months fishing on the Fraser River. Because Miyakichi refused to continue his studies in Japan and instead insisted on becoming a fisherman, his father reluctantly sent for his wife and son to join him in Steveston, BC. Miyakichi fished as a boat-puller with his father during the sockeye salmon season. When his father accepted a position with a boat works, Miyakichi was left with the choice of either being unemployed or fishing the boat by himself.
Where the Heart Is — HomeComing ’92
Edited by Randy Enomoto, Photographs by Tamio Wakayama
108 pages Softcover ISBN 0-9696587-1-0 $15.00 $10
This book chronicles the reunion of four generations of Japanese Canadians in Vancouver, fifty years after the war time internment, and expulsion from BC. An overview of the internment and the second uprooting is presented, as well as other issues arising from this event, such as intermarriage, human rights and deportation to Japan. In addition there’s a section dealing with aging Japanese Canadians and the specific problems they face. Each section is presented from the particular viewpoint of the speaker, representing a diversity of peoples and experiences.
Wild Daisies in the Sand – Life in a Candian Internment Camp
Tom Sando
230 pages softcover ISBN 1896300510 $19.95
The Japanese-Canadians relocated to Petawawa and Angler during World War II were imprisoned in maximum security penitentiaries: compounds encircled by three layers of barbed wire fences, and under constant surveillance by rifle armed guards stationed in watchtowers. These people were not prisoners-of-war, or even criminals, but Canadian civilians deemed dangerous by the Canadian government because of their race. This is Tom Sando’s story, related through a series of his journal entries throughout his years of imprisonment. This is a story of loneliness, fear, and, eventually, friendship and hope.
鮭とリンゴの里から カナダで二十年
Sakuya Nishimura
270 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-0-9688100-8-8 $18.95
