The majority of about 22,000 interned Japanese Canadians lived in B.C. So far, some participants have asked that school curricula include racism against Japanese Canadians as well as initiatives to educate the general public about the intergenerational trauma that families have experienced, Oikawa said. “We recognize that significant harm came to Japanese Canadians as a result of provincial government actions during the Second World War,” she said in a statement. Her daughter, Lynn Kobaishi, president of the Toronto chapter of the National Association of Japanese Canadians, said during the war politicians in B.C. “I think it was terrible and it was unfounded fear that they were going off of because they were treating the Japanese Canadians like they weren’t citizens.

Source: thestar July 21, 2019 12:45 UTC