Funeral for fallen Japanese soldiers

Funeral for fallen Japanese soldiers

Description

Title Proper Funeral for fallen Japanese soldiers
Date(s) 1945
General material designation
This item has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
This is a photograph of the service held for fallen Japanese soldiers in an internment camp. The image captures a crowd kneeling in front of a series of flower wreaths and flags. The assembly is indoors, in front of a shrine or altar. The hairstyles suggest that the majority of the attendees were women, though it may just be that women knelt at the back of the room for the ceremony and thus were more visible. The image is in black and white. It was reproduced for sale; this copy is marked “50 c” on the back. The photograph is on thick card and has evidence of wear on the sides.
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 not digitized.

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Funeral for fallen Japanese soldiers
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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.