カナダのリドレス20周年 : ゴーストタウン教員歴史協会の記録を中心に

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Soon after the Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese Canadians were sent to detention camps in the Rocky Mountains on the basis of alleged espionage and sabotage possibilities. At that time, the population of Japanese Canadians was about 22,000 and most of them were born in Canada and Canadian citizens. Several thousand school children were removed from public schools and sent with their mothers to detention camps (men of military service age were forced to go to various work camps). In 1988 Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed an agreement with the National Association of Japanese Canadians for a formal apology and reparations. Around that time, more than a hundred Japanese Canadian women who taught youngsters in detention camps got together and started to write memoirs of their teaching experiences at the camp schools. Teaching in Canadian Exile, edited by Frank Moritsugu, was published by the Ghost Town Teachers Historical Society in 2000 as the fruit of their efforts.
2009-03-31