Death Rather than Poverty

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Death Rather than Poverty

Description

Title Proper Death Rather than Poverty
Date(s) 1930
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This item contains an article about Kichitaro Naito attempting ritual suicide (seppuku) because of old age and poverty.
Name of creator
University of Victoria Libraries collected this archive which is available on microfilm at the Mearns Centre - McPherson Library.
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 selectively.

Structure

Repository University of Victoria Libraries
Fonds Vancouver Sun
Series VS 1930
File April

Metadata

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Death Rather than Poverty
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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.