Koji Tasaka Vancouver Japanese Language School Award

Koji Tasaka Vancouver Japanese Language School Award

Description

Title Proper Koji Tasaka Vancouver Japanese Language School Award
Date(s) 1992
General material designation
This item has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
One framed certificate, in Japanese and English, presented to Mr. Koji Tasaka. The English text reads: "A TESTIMONIAL OF SINCERE APPRECIATION PRESENTED TO MR. KOJI TASAKA, IN HONOUR AND WITH DEEP APPRECIATION OF THE UNSELFISH DEDICATION AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE GIVEN TO THE SCHOOL OVER THE YEARS SINCE RE-OPENING, WHILE SERVING AS DIRECTOR AND AUDITOR WITH TOTAL CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, COMMITTED TO WELFARE OF OUR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY. Dated October 11, 1992 at Vancouver B.C. VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL"
Name of creator
Koji Tasaka was the patron of the Tasaka family. He was the third child and second son of lsaburo and Yorie Tasaka, he became the oldest son when Hajime, second child and first son, died as a youngster. He served as President of the Japanese Canadian Citizen's Association, was a life long member and Steward of the Japanese United Church, and was teacher and principal of the Japanese Language School before the war and after the internment.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized in full.

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Koji Tasaka Vancouver Japanese Language School Award
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