Japanese Canadian Oral History Collection

The collection is comprised of interviews conducted by the National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre with Japanese Canadians on topics ranging from early immigration; their participation in pre-World War II industries including fishing, farming, and the lumber industries; and their internment during World War II. The collection is a rich source for the study of ethnic history, BC history, Japanese Canadian history, immigration history, and oral history at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The majority of audio files are in English, but some are in Japanese.

The collection is comprised of interviews conducted by the National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre with Japanese Canadians on topics ranging from early immigration; their participation in pre-World War II industries including fishing, farming, and the lumber industries; and their internment during World War II. The collection is a rich source for the study of ethnic history, BC history, Japanese Canadian history, immigration history, and oral history at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The majority of audio files are in English, but some are in Japanese.

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Interview with Naomi Shikaze

Date: 1991-01-23
Name(s): Shikaze, Naomi

Interview with Nishimura

Date: 1976-10-12
Name(s): Nishimura, Wakayama, Tamio

Interview with Nobby Hayashi

Date: 2004-10-19
Name(s): Hayashi, Nobby, Shozawa, Katherine Megumi
Description: Nobby discusses his family, and the difficulty his mother's naturalization and his citizenship. He also discusses the living conditions during internment.

Interview with Nobby Hayashi

Date: 1994-10-19
Name(s): Hayashi, Nobby, Shozawa, Katherine Megumi
Description: Nobby speaks about the winter, and how the cold affected his life during internment in terms of food and supplies. He describes in detail the quality of life in the living quarters in the camp in New Denver, and the details of living standards during this period.

Interview with Nobby Hayashi

Date: 1994-10-11
Name(s): Hayashi, Nobby, Shozawa, Katherine Megumi
Description: Nobby speaks in detail about his internment experience in New Denver, and the discrimination he faced during this period. He speaks in detail about baseball, and how the Japanese Canadians had to play separately from other Canadians for an extensive period of time during and after the internment period. He then goes on to describe the type of work he did during and after this period. Japanese food and culture are also discussed at great length.

Interview with Nobuyuki Sakamoto

Date: 1989-07-18
Name(s): Sakamoto, Nobuyuki

Interview with Norman Tsuyuki

Date: 1994-06-06
Name(s): Reilly, Jessica, Tsuyuki, Norman

Interview with Onobu Yamakami

Date: 1983-10-17
Name(s): Yamakami, Onobu

Interview with Paul Kariya

Date: 2012
Name(s): Kariya, Paul, Nakamura, Raymond
Description: An interview of Paul Kariya conducted by Raymond Nakamura. Paul discusses his life,focusing on life in Steveston, BC.

Interview with Pauline Etsuko Inose

Date: 1994-10-14
Name(s): Inose, Pauline Etsuko, Shozawa, Katherine Megumi
Description: Pauline and Katherine look at pictures in the New Denver museum, and Katherine identifies various things in them.

Interview with Peter (Shoji) Yamaguchi

Date: 1983-07-01
Name(s): Holroyd, Carin, Wood, Joanne, Yamaguchi, Peter (Shoji)

Interview with Peter Keiichi Nimi

Date: 2011
Name(s): Nimi, Peter Keiichi
Description: The collection consists of an interview of Peter Keiichi Nimi recounting his life with an emphasis on Powell Street in Vancouver, BC before 1942.

Interview with Powell Street attendees, workers, and volunteers, as well as area residents

Date: 1991-07
Name(s): H., Shane, Keller, Pat, Lum, Burt, Marusi, Grant, Mia, Dwayne, Terry, [Unknown]
Description: These tapes contain 32 interviews with festival attendees, participants, and volunteers, as well as area residents. There may be a thirty-third interview at the end of the tapes, but it is too muffled to hear. Recording is comprised of 32 separate interviews with Powell Street Festival attendees at the 1991 Powell Street Festival.

Interview with Randall Enomoto and Lynn Enomoto

Date: 1991-02-27
Name(s): Enomoto, Lynn, Enomoto, Randall
Description: Randall is Japanese Canadian and Lynn is white Canadian

Interview with Ray, Connie, Glen, and Naomi

Date: 1976-10-17
Name(s): Connie, Glen, Naomi, Ray
Description: This interview is a freeform discussion between four younger (compared to most other interviews) Japanese Canadians at least one of whom identifies himself as Nisei. This is labelled as tape two but is the only tape in this interview.