Joy Kogawa

Joy Kogawa

female, 74 years old
Obasan, Canadian women writer, Order of British Columbia, internment camps, Naomi's Road, Joy Nozomi Kogawa…Canadian, JapaneseCanadian
Joy Nozomi Kogawa (born June 6, 1935) is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent. Born Joy Nozomi Nakayama in Vancouver, British Columbia,...
Roy Miki

Roy Miki

male, 67 years old
Governor General's Award winning poet, Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, From Winnipeg, Simon Fraser University alumni, Roy Akira Miki…Japanese-Canadian, Japanese Canadian internment, JapaneseCanadian, Canadian
Roy Akira Miki (born October 10, 1942) is a Canadian poet and scholar. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents,...
David Suzuki

David Suzuki

male, 73 years old
University of British Columbia faculty, from vancouver, environmentalist, cbc, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, environmentalism…Canadian, JapaneseCanadian
David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, Ph.D (born March 24 1936), is a Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. Since the mid 1970s,...
Bev Oda

Bev Oda

female, 65 years old
Canadian of Japanese descent, From Thunder Bay, Ontario, TV Ontario, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, member of the Canadian House of Commons, Progressive Conservative Party…Canadian House of Commons, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Canadian, JapaneseCanadian
Beverley Joan Oda PC, BA, MP (born July 27, 1944 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. She is a current member of the Canadian House...
Hiromi Goto

Hiromi Goto

female, 42 years old
Canadian women writer, immigrant to Canada, Japanese, Canadian, Tiptree Award, The Kappa Child…JapaneseCanadian
Hiromi Goto (born December 31, 1966) is a Canadian novelist. Born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, her family emigrated to Canada in 1969, settling in...
Raymond Moriyama

Raymond Moriyama

male
architect, from vancouver, From toronto, b.arch, master of architecture, M.Arch…JapaneseCanadian, Canadian, Canadian university and college chancellor
Raymond Moriyama, B.Arch, M.Arch (born Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Japanese-Canadian architect. He has designed several buildings at Brock...
Kerri Sakamoto

Kerri Sakamoto

female, 49 years old
Strawberry Fields, Filmmaker, 1998 Governor General's Awards, Asian American, The Electrical Field, Banff Fine Arts Centre…JapaneseCanadian, Canadian
Kerri Sakamoto is a Canadian novelist. Her novels commonly deal with the experience of Japanese Canadians. Sakamoto's debut novel, "The Electrical...

Ken Adachi

male, deceased (1989)
University of Maryland, World War II, historian, english literature, university of toronto, Canadian…JapaneseCanadian, Japanese, Japanese Canadian internment, New Canadian
Ken Adachi (1929 - February 9, 1989) was a Canadian writer and literary critic, who was associated with the "Toronto Star"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s...
Bruce Kuwabara

Bruce Kuwabara

male, 60 years old
architect, Blumberg, Victoria Memorial Museum Building, Ottawa, Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, Rockcliffe Redevelopment, Ottawa, Canadian Embassy in Berlin…Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Canadian, JapaneseCanadian
Bruce Bunji Kuwabara, B.Arch, OAA, FRAIC, Assoc. AIA (born 1949) is a Canadian architect and partner in the firm Payne, Kuwabara, McKenna and...