Ebook: O-bon in Chimunesu: a Community Remembered

O-Bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered is a moving tribute to a community of Japanese-Canadians and the way they lived their lives. Prior to the Second World War, when Canada's official policy of internment changed the lives of Japanese-Canadians forever, the Vancouver Island town of Chemainus ("Chimunesu") was home to a thriving Japanese-Canadian community, whose members struggled to adapt to the difficulties of life in a new country, while at the same time keeping their own traditions alive. During the war, Japanese-Canadians on the west coast were shunted off to internment cam.;Contents; foreword; introduction; chapter one: yoshiko kawahara; chapter two: takayoshi kawahara; chapter three: shizuka and hitoshi okada; chapter four: matsue taniwa; chapter five: sunao, kaname and chiyo izumi; chapter six: mataharu otsu; chapter seven: toshiye kamino; chapter eight: sumiko and shigeyuki yoshida; chapter nine: shunichi and hanaye isoki; epilogue: the reunion; glossary; index.