nnm_f253_volume_s1757_file_f155

This file contains a textual record.

File consists of a scrapbook, assembled by Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka, containing newspaper clippings relating to Canadian minorities and to the 1980s formation of the Japanese Canadian redress movement. The file includes some ephermera for a 1983 Sodon Kai redress meeting and for the 1977 Japanese Canadian Centennial "War Measures Act" Conference. The file also includes a brief two-page statement by Jitaro Tanaka, made in 1977, proposing a Japanese Canadian history project.

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.

This record was digitized in full.