Letter from Canadian Embassy (Tokyoo) regarding Rieko's citizenship status
Description
| Title Proper | Letter from Canadian Embassy (Tokyoo) regarding Rieko's citizenship status |
| Date(s) | 1955 |
| General material designation |
This item contains a textual record.
|
| Scope and content |
This is a letter from the Canadian Embassy, Tokyo addressed to Moichiro Tonomura.
It is dated February 23, 1955, and relates to the process of immigration and citizenship
status. The writer explains that it might be difficult for Moichiro and his family
members to return to Canada. A rough detail translation includes: “[...] you came
back after the war, therefore, you have lost your Canadian citizenship. Thus you are
not allowed [..] I understand that underaged children and a spouse of Canadian citizen
would be able to immigrate to Canada [...].” The process is also complicated by the
fact that Reiko, their daughter, was born in Canada and does not qualify for a Japanese
birth certificate.
|
| Name of creator |
The
Tonomura family
created these records.
|
| 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.
|
Structure
| Repository | Nikkei National Museum |
| Fonds | Tonomura Family collection |
| Series | Family records |
| File | Insurance and Citizenship Correspondence; 1955, 1966, 1967. |
Metadata
Download Original XML (8.0K)
Download Standalone XML (16K)
Title
Letter from Canadian Embassy (Tokyoo) regarding Rieko's citizenship status
Publication Information: See Terms of Use for publication and licensing information.
Source: Nikkei National Museum
Terminology
Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese
Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment
and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes
of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological
choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice.
See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.