Theater Performance of Young Men as Soldiers, and Young Girls in White

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This image depicts six young people, three boys and three girls, in front of a painted background on a stage. The boys from left to right are: A. Kato, H. Kaiura, and Y. Kimura. The girls from left to right are: Y. Fujimoto, S. Sato, and S. Harafuji. The boys are kneeling at the front of the stage with one knee up, their left hands on their left knee. They are wearing military uniforms including helmets and packs on their backs. In their right hands they are holding rifles with bayonets affixed, and on their right side are sword sheaths. Behind them stand the girls wearing white dresses and sashes with Japanese characters printed across them. Held upright in their right hands is the Japanese flag, and held down in their left is the Japanese sunburst. The painted backdrop behind them depict mountains and has something written in Japanese characters on the right side. There is a banner above he stage that is also written in Japanese.

Fumiko Kawata was born in 1938 in Cumberland BC to parents Itoko and Yoshitoshi Kawata. Yoshitoshi's parents were Sowa & Kinshiro Kawata from Ehime prefecture. Kinshiro came to Canada as a farm labourer on the Empress of Russia Dec 19, 1922, his nearest relative at that time was Tomi Kawata of Yanazaki Mura, Nishiwa gori, Ehime Ken, Japan. Itoko and Yoshitoshi were born in Japan and remained Japanese Nationals.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

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