In this episode, Friendly Neighbour to Enemy Alien: Japanese Internment and Deportation during WWII, we’ll be exploring the history of the treatment, internment and deportation of Japanese Canadians before, during and after WWII. This was a suggestion from a friend who had seen a post about Japanese Internment camps in Canada online. This history combined with the recent rise in anti-Asian racism, made it a timely topic.
Resources
National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC)
Japanese Canadian Internment: Prisoners in their own Country (Canadian Encyclopedia)
Japanese Canadian Internment Narrated by David Suzuki (YouTube; Legion Magazine)
Japanese deportations in Canada during WWII : Throwaway Citizens (YouTube; The Fifth Estate; 1995)
Narrating True History: Japanese Canadians in 1942 (YouTube; atieh yekta)
Masumi Mitsui (Canadian Encyclopedia)
Special Committee on Orientals in British Columbia: Report and Recommendations December, 1940 (Internet Archives)
Of Japanese Descent : An Interim Report (1945) (YouTube; Library and Archives Canada)
Landscapes of Injustice – Timeline (University of Victoria BC)
Apology to Japanese Canadians-September 22, 1988 (CBC News; Videos & Article)
Case study: Japanese Canadians (Elections Canada)