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Youcan now ti»t Roy Wo' • much' Nl,像,'who terv" C站—tりunlfprm
W亂W抑t to War l8 • profusf ly M( lu"rat"330<pag^hl"orV th^t off柳 fra,h ,n,HihU Ini^ th« upWrt bat,一 by她Can«di«"liio^ty gifbup to
th« tell,ng, which focuM攀onJapii* nes» CanadUm tiimtary "rvlce, Ito 『6vmIs many ll川"nOwn facts about thoso who donnsd a呵khaki (and at iMSt two In Air Force blu,>.
One exampl攀:It's W6,l known thW about150 N,Ml volunteers milisted In1945 for 8»rvic« In South柳t Asia, But during the Second World War, at lea,t 32 other Niseis joined up for regul疆r mmtary serv,co—In various Canadian Army units as well as In the Royal Canadian AけForce.
Most of the" Niseis lived In Alber. ta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Qゅbec or New Brunswick. But three others from British Columbia managed to elude the official ban on Japan柳 Canadian c出zens from the West Coast serving In the mHけary.
One of those regular Army Nほeほ was Wl,ed In action. Trooper Mlnoru Tanaka of the10th Canadほn Ar.
man tank got a direct hit In Germany on February 20,1945. His home was Wymsrk, Sasに
To uncover the staUstlcs and personal details about the Japanese Canadians who went to tha two wars, "o 8p«nt y"rs r柳arcWnf) In o"lcl翁l military records and other sources In OUawa and B.C. archives. H0 also In-
ans and others, some of whom have slnc6 died.
And forrm»r Canadian Army inter.
books In Japanese translated to disclose trie personal taws ot tns heroic First World War Infantrymen
France as VImy Ridge and Passchen'
In a1935 book, for Instance, one Issel soldier (the Great War volurv teers ware .all naturalizedImmigrants) told about hぉexperiences In the trench warfare of the1917 battle of VImy Ridge. Along with frightening details of the deadly fighting, SacWmarb Moro-oka offers a lighter
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CANAD,AN hka—In S«p"mib«r of1M3/Mr. Iぉrm^tb ml "on to b«o" iiUii>ot,*tWpikl«r)^ tducatlon. pudn0hls t^ednd y^r 翁fMcMa"f^ Unlv«rt,tyh«WMr*€ruitid by Capti(nOonM^,litdrt of
di«n Ar^yJaj)iiifMti LinQ*<*0* ^^^^, bffora gofhiQ bv«rmis to ーe with ttM Canadian l—lligtnclLOorpt In India andSouth* Ea" A,Ul
A付w tlie war, Mr. Ito completed his university degref and went on to TmCher's Co,lege. His career as a tMcher spanned 34y争ars, of wh,ch25 yMW wwe as school principal. Mr. Ito r«tired In June1984,
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War. Th^ bo6k It ",tlngty toO 901^, Tanawho wm
lto'iiraiDen",rttlrid tchopl pilnci* pai化Hamirtoii; Wm firstii«int to » ro«d camp Jn B.C"l,ttrJptn«d hit
"D Company was given a12-hour rest in the support trenches near King's Cross. I vぉHed the la,rine. When I searched for pap«r, I found a copy of the TaWku NIppo (the Japanese.language Vancouver dally which w幼the predecessof of today's Canada T,m6s) In my pocket. Sl川ng down In thelatrine,1read the news from Canada. , forgot about the sh8llんAn officer scrambledInto the latrine. Ha yelled, "WJww do you 論k yoo are! G" back In ma tmnch,"
To nuny raadars, the first section about th« l8M, soldiers tn th«
cInWIng. Unforg«xc«rpU from their dほrf^s and letters give
tra,n,ng In England and fighting 廳'ongtk1^ oth«r Cinadlans in som« of ,ha,柳'* gorto" battl««.
com* real persons as do the 0th附 who ratumed safWy — thank«to Roy はo's dedicated resMrch and sen* sはlve selecting from their wartime
As for the Canadian Niseis who served In ,he Secpnd World War, tWs book gives details about many of
or want to l幽,Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, Singapore, Indochina, Thai, land Hong .kong or occ叩atlon Japan. Among the anecdotw are Incidents of racial discrimination, encounters w,th Japanese troops and surprise meeリngs with Canadほns stranded In Asia by th« wsr.
In addition,けo tells about other less.known Nisei soldiers, such as the trio from the Okanagan who spoke Japanese well and were quietly recruited for servlcee In Australia, as well as those graduates of ,he Canadian Army's Japanese* langua^tf training school In Vane Oliver, wtio served In such places as Washington, D.C., alongside Japa' nese Americans. Then th,re was the Ironic case of the Canadian NIsW s«r. geant assigned as an o川cW Intw-pretw on the staff of the Angler, Onレpi1soner>of.war camp where many NIsWs and Isseis from B.C. were b«lng Interned because they re. sisted the o川clal oxpuWon from the Pacけlc Coast In1942.
But We Went to War does mora than merely detail what the Canadian Is86Is and Issels did In their wars, colourful ,hough the details are. Ito paints In the pollMcal/soclal backdrops of both w art I r116 periods when Japanese Canadians tried to volunteer to go to war despけe for. mldabl0 official resistance.
In1917, theほse,s had to travel from B.C. to Alberta, at their expense, to be accepted as Army vo!urv teers at a time when Canada was desperate for more nr19n to fight In the war in Europ«.
And the majority of Nほels finally allowed to voluntwr In1945 to serve fn the war 09a Inst Japan had been forcibly moved from their homes on 化a-. B.C. coaat thrM years b«fora. Our government grac6l6ssly and sfr< cratly ,"t" ,h« ban on Nisei enlist. meW b*c«uM of angry pressure from th6 Church,11 government in
Fof lho*» o, M who htv« pakJ
As th« Far East *ntw*d Its final phasM, the BiiUsh forc«s In Southm't ASM o«8p«ftti«,y n««<}«d Jap«n«s«*tpMWng Mrvfc*m«n. In. f*rprtf*rt w*r« nMd«d實o <fMl wUh growing numbtr拿of Japan**攀 pdson«rt flnd mlllt«ry document» c«p,ur»d wHh th*fa
ly nation wUh霧izab1, numbers of c出zenft of «Jap«n«m origin.
how the ml nes6 Canadians In both warswtre vital contributions to (ho uphill cam*
zens In their home provln沐Even before war broke outIn19", natural, ほed Issels had unsuccessfully lob-bled for the vote, a right that all other
quired automatically as In the rest of
vote, as well as th« founding of the NlM, new霧pajMT, Th* N糊Canadほn, which 8pMrties4ed the Mcond^gen-era"on campaign for full rights, and tho traumatic Impact of th*1942 ex. pulsion fro i it th« Pacific Co a" and the resuUIng scattering of Japanm«
In1917, tha Issels volunteered to
court*
try was at war, and because they hoped that aftw such service, th» vote w(
Despite the tragic fac, that 47 of the150.plus volunteers died In ac. t'on, and a W纖卯Wng number ware woundAd, th0 postwar B.C. laglslatura adamantly refused to ex-lend the vote to Japan we Canadian cWz抑s. Only the surviving veterans were reluctantly enfranchised.
Ito also tells of the Nlseレled at. tempts between the wars to gain the
It wasn't.until1949, a!most four years after war's抓d, that British
all Canadほn.bom and naturalほed cけ,zens of Jap anase do scent《and of ChlnaM and East Indian descent).
In his final chapter, Ito movingly do scribe 8 the climactic day — March 4,1949 一 when翁s two NほW leaders, George Tanaka and SeljlHomma, watched froWith參vWtors' gallery, the B.C. legislators finally passed an amendment giving Jap a柳6 Canadl. ans the vote, a right that unlike other Canadian clUz9ns, they had to fight soma of th參m (literally) to gW.
Sel" Ho in ma , • B.C. Jikpanes** CaruHJian fMd*r, wji霧son of To mek I. chl Ho mm a who h«d plon««r»d th«
befor» th» First World War. George Tanaka, an S'20 graduate, was the National Jap ana" Canadian CI", zens AssocJation (JCCA> execu"ve secretary.
Trooper Minoru Tanaka
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bMt fa冊,k^fd fぉTh« Ntw Cmuh dUm In KmIo, B.C., ttwnlnttnvptMl his WudlM «t McM"Ur論9rtlty to •nil" when the fllMli w»re fInaHy perm"," to In1945.
A師mtMr of如first group 61 NImI, to graduflt* from th^ S-加 JapanM"nguage school, Ito Mfv'. ed overs•,, as an AlliedInlerprater and monitor at war crim«s trlaほIn Hong Kong — Including Ironicalty that of Kanao <Kami00p, K,d) Inouye. That B.C..bom aerg柳t In the J«p«< nese Army was convicted of mU-trMtm«nt of Allied prisonors and civilians, and later executecL
けo gl柳firsthand d0W,8 of that trial and of Inouye himself. BecauM even though the man being tri«d wa黎 a Japanese Canadian charged with what In Wf0ct was treason, two other B.C..bom NIsWs worked on th« prosecuting A川ed ,taff In the UHtM courtroom—けo and fellow Canadl• an Army warrant officer Fr«d
Nog抓に
A major addition to the now^ substantial library of books devoted to Japanese Canadほns, W« Went to War was sponsored by th« S*20稳nd NlMlV»t«f«n* AMocWIon.は》 Jap«« n«M>C«n«dian and hakゅn ffwmbfn Include grvdiMt" of the Army', Japan«ft«<languag« »chooi as w,lにas the Nほ0ほsent directly to South*Mt
The no n>Japan糊S'20 gradual by the way, Include th* IW« Judy LaMarsh, architect Arthur EHckson^ former Manitoba cabinet minister S«ul Chemlal(, Canadian Bar A mo el-
and oth«rs,
(Although this wport attempU to describe theけo book falr,y, th« reader should know that th« writwほ also a NIsd "t«ran and an Association member.)
The book can b« obtained In Toronto, from The New Canadian, the Sanko food store, and the Jap a,' nese Canadian CulturalCentra. It will also be available ,n Montreal, H纖mll-ton, Winnipeg and Vflncouv攀r.
Orders may also b« Mp, to T. SWmほu, 46 RIsdon Court' Etbblcok«, Ontario, M9C 4E7. Priceほ$16<诉 plusれ50 for mailing. Ch«quM should be payabl« to "S.20 and Nisei V0t6rans Association." U.S. orders w", b« accepted for "6.9S U.S., which Includes ma川ng costs.
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LUXMAN
ALLAN (AKIRA) KATSUYA
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