Documents related to Japanese Canadian internment and redress.

From this series, LOI has digitized 4 textual records and other records.

Series consists of four files of textual material and documents created and assembled by Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka, relating to the forced removal and internment of Japanese Canadians from 1942-1946. The series includes: a file in two volumes chronologically recounting and commenting on events of late 1942 through 1944 concerning Japanese Canadians; a file providing a history of Japanese Canadians produced in 1958 by the National Japanese Canadian Citizens Association History Committee; two files in the form of scrapbooks, one containing newspaper clippings mainly from 1942 together with period documents related to the Nisei Mass Evacuation Group and the forced removal in 1942, the other containing news clippings from 1982-1984 regarding the redress movement; and one file with a photograph of Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka.

Jitaro Tanaka was born November 27, 1905 in Shiga prefecture, Japan. His parents Jikichi Tanaka and Akuri Kawasaki had six children. About 1906 Tanaka's father Jikichi immigrated to Canada, coming to Vancouver. Jitaro Tanaka joined his father in Vancouver in 1911, aged five years old. Tanaka's wife to be, Sumiko Suga, was born in Vancouver April 5, 1912. Her parents were Kichitaro Suga and Hatsuyo Uyeno, who had come to Vancouver from Hiroshima; the family eventually numbered fourteen children.

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