nnm_f253_volume_s1757_file_f152

This file contains a textual record.

File consists of a 177 page typescript chronicle in two volumes written in English and created by Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka, presenting an almost daily account beginning Dec. 7, 1941 through Oct. 16, 1944, relating and commenting on events concerning Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. The chronicle was prepared for reference of Jitaro Tanaka, who was named to act as advisor to and representative of the Spanish Consulate (which under the Geneva Convention was charged with the task of protecting the rights of Japanese aliens in Canada). The chronicle entries are culled partly from local newspapers in British Columbia as well as from notices, statements, and other sources of the period.

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.