In May 1945, British forces crossed the Irrawaddy River in Burma and engaged a Japanese force, north of the Prome-Taungup road. With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9 ...

More than 80 years ago, Japanese Canadians came together to sustain The New Canadian, the only newspaper specifically for the community that was allowed to be published through the Second World War.

Ridgway’s heart and passion for the Japanese Canadians in Vancouver prior to the war had prepared her well to face this tumultuous period in Canadian history. Her life story would come to ...

The cover of "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration" and one of the editors Frank Abe. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Kayla Isomura) The new collection "The Literature of ...

A few years ago, Toronto writer and University of Toronto lecturer Leanne Toshiko Simpson took a road trip with her mother through British Columbia. They had a very specific itinerary for a deeply ...

Her father cleared land by hand and blasted it with dynamite, a material Japanese Canadians had been barred from possessing during internment. Young May loathed back-breaking farm chores ...

But when Naor looked up, the faces he saw were unlike any he had seen before. They were Japanese American soldiers, part of a storied military unit that faced down prejudice and suspicion to fight ...

Nearly eight decades after it went down in a last stand against overwhelming odds, the USS Samuel B. Roberts has been located. A deep sea expedition found and identified the wreckage on June 22 ...

VANCOUVER - More than eighty years ago, Japanese Canadians came together to sustain The New Canadian, the only newspaper specifically for the community that was allowed to be published through the ...