NAJC Redress 2008 registration form.pdfDates: Saturday September 20, 2008
Location/Time: 9:00am-12:00pm
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Yumi Schoenhofer
Takashi Ogasawara
Mitsuo Hayashi
Photo credit: John Greenaway
Presenter:
Brought up in Tokyo, Tatsuo Kage studied European history at the University of Tokyo and Tübingen University, Germany. As a professor he taught Political and Diplomatic History at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo. After immigrating to Canada in 1975, for ten years he worked as a Bilingual Counsellor at MOSAIC, a multicultural immigrant and refugee settlement service agency in Vancouver. In 1978 he participated in the founding of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Immigrants' Association. In the 1980's he participated in the Redress movement for Japanese Canadians. In the 1980's and 90's he worked with the NAJC as a Director and the chairman of Immigration Committee and Human Rights Committee. In the 1990's he continued human rights work with the Greater Vancouver JCCA which included redress for WWII victims. His research work on Exiled Japanese Canadians was published in 1998 in Tokyo.
Moderator:
Masa Kagami was born in Japan, moved to Vancouver in 1989. He studied architecture at the School of Architecture, UBC. Currently he does design consultancy works for Canadian and Japanese clients. He is involved in NAJC as a director and a member of the Community Development Committee. Masa is also a member of local peace group aiming to keep in place Article 9 in Japan's Constitution. He enjoys kendo and the game of Go.
Panelists:
Alex Nagao has been a board member of the NJCA, the Calgary Japanese Language School and the Calgary Japanese Community Association. He studied in Kyoto and moved to Vancouver to study English. He currently lives in Calgary and is the President of the NJCA and a director at the Calgary Japanese Language School.
Yumi Schoenhofer Born and raised in Tokyo. Immigrated in 1989 due to her husband’s posting back to the Federal Government of Canada.
Co-founder of the Nadeshiko-no-kai (Japanese speaking woman’s club), former NAJC Executive, Currently, chair of community relations of the Ottawa Japanese Community Association (OJCA), Japanese liaison volunteer at hospitals, Police, school boards, and airport. Strong interest and advocacy in Japanese women’s and the children’s issues and aboriginal issues. I am a homemaker and mother which represent almost 90% of Japanese immigrant women living in Canada. I have three children including a set of teenage twin boys.
Yusuke Tanaka is a graduate of Waseda University with BA in Sociology.
He immigrated to Canada in 1986. He has been working as the Japanese editor for the Nikkei Voice that began in 1989. Current title is managing editor and advertising manager. The paper is the only bilingual nation-wide newspaper for the Nikkei in Canada. He also has been involved with Toronto Japanese Canadian community through organizing annual storytelling event; thus, introducing Japanese folklore both in English and in Japanese since 1994. His major translation work includes: "Bittersweet Passage" (Author: Maryka Omatsu. 1994: Gendai Shokan Publishing, Tokyo)
The Japanese edition acquired "Best Manuscript in Translation" of the "Prime Minister's Award for Publishing 1994," "Throw Your Heart Over the Fence" (Author: Diane Dupuy. Sakuhokusha Publishing,Tokyo.2000) Lecturer on the history of Japanese Canadians, Canada's muti-culturalism, etc. at several universities in Japan.
Takeo Yamashiro (forthcoming)
Respondants:
Etsuko Kato is a Senior Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2001) and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia (2001-2002). Her publications include: "The Mind Roaming above the Ocean: Mental Health of Young Japanese Sojourners in Vancouver" in Changing Japanese Business, Economy and Society (ed. by Masao Nakamura, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Leslie Komori (forthcoming)
Takashi Ogasawara I was born in Kyoto in 1944 and grew up in Shimane-ken and moved to Osaka in 1963. I lived in Osaka until 1971. In May of 1971 I left Japan and traveled North America and Mexico about one and a half years. At the end of 1972, I entered Canada, 1973 obtained a Landed Immigrant Status and in 2001 became a Canadian Citizen. From 1973 to 1975 I worked for a mining promotion company and for B.C. Ministry of Mine and Energy, Mapping Department as a map maker in Vancouver. In 1975, I started to work for Canadian Forest Products, Englewood Logging Division at Woss, northern Vancouver Island (150km north of Campbell River) as a draftsman. My family moved to Campbell River from Vancouver in 1976 and after the second child was born they joined me at Woss in 1979. We lived at Woss until 1987 and then we moved back to Campbell River. We live in Campbell River ever since. After 12 years of commuting from Campbell River to Divisional office at Woss, I was transferred to the Campbell River Office in 1999. I retired from Canfor in 2004 after 29 years of service as a G.I.S. Technician.After my retirement I do a lot of volunteering work, such as the Salvation Army, Terry Fox Run, Campbell River and Ishikari Twinning Society, a local mountaineering club, and a local Nikkei Japanese community. My hobbies are mountain climbing and photography, and I have been a member of Canadian Alpine Club since 1994.
Naoko Takaei (forthcoming)
Mitsuo Hayashi Born and raised in Iida, Nagano, Japan. Graduated from Chuo University in Tokyo (BA, Economics) and New York University, USA (MBA, International Marketing). Worked 30 years for NKK Corporation, Japanese steel manufacturing, engineering and ship building company, specializing in the project marketing, export and general management, stationed in New York (twice) and Vancouver (twice) for over 22 years. Retired in 1993 and moved to Vancouver as a retired immigrant. Involved in various Nikkei community organizations and activities as a volunteer since 1994: Currently, Senior Advisor-Community Relations (former President) of National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre, Director of Nikkei Place Foundation, Director of Canada Japan Society of BC, Vice President of Nikka Health Care Society. President of Urasenke Tankokai Vancouver Association and Chair of the Official Board of Vancouver Japanese United Church-Japanese Speaking.
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Brought up in Tokyo, Tatsuo Kage studied European history at the University of Tokyo and Tübingen University, Germany. As a professor he taught Political and Diplomatic History at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo. After immigrating to Canada in 1975, for ten years he worked as a Bilingual Counsellor at MOSAIC, a multicultural immigrant and refugee settlement service agency in Vancouver. In 1978 he participated in the founding of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Immigrants' Association. In the 1980's he participated in the Redress movement for Japanese Canadians. In the 1980's and 90's he worked with the NAJC as a Director and the chairman of Immigration Committee and Human Rights Committee. In the 1990's he continued human rights work with the Greater Vancouver JCCA which included redress for WWII victims. His research work on Exiled Japanese Canadians was published in 1998 in Tokyo.
Moderator:
Masa Kagami was born in Japan, moved to Vancouver in 1989. He studied architecture at the School of Architecture, UBC. Currently he does design consultancy works for Canadian and Japanese clients. He is involved in NAJC as a director and a member of the Community Development Committee. Masa is also a member of local peace group aiming to keep in place Article 9 in Japan's Constitution. He enjoys kendo and the game of Go.
Panelists:
Alex Nagao has been a board member of the NJCA, the Calgary Japanese Language School and the Calgary Japanese Community Association. He studied in Kyoto and moved to Vancouver to study English. He currently lives in Calgary and is the President of the NJCA and a director at the Calgary Japanese Language School.
Yumi Schoenhofer Born and raised in Tokyo. Immigrated in 1989 due to her husband’s posting back to the Federal Government of Canada.
Co-founder of the Nadeshiko-no-kai (Japanese speaking woman’s club), former NAJC Executive, Currently, chair of community relations of the Ottawa Japanese Community Association (OJCA), Japanese liaison volunteer at hospitals, Police, school boards, and airport. Strong interest and advocacy in Japanese women’s and the children’s issues and aboriginal issues. I am a homemaker and mother which represent almost 90% of Japanese immigrant women living in Canada. I have three children including a set of teenage twin boys.
Yusuke Tanaka is a graduate of Waseda University with BA in Sociology.
He immigrated to Canada in 1986. He has been working as the Japanese editor for the Nikkei Voice that began in 1989. Current title is managing editor and advertising manager. The paper is the only bilingual nation-wide newspaper for the Nikkei in Canada. He also has been involved with Toronto Japanese Canadian community through organizing annual storytelling event; thus, introducing Japanese folklore both in English and in Japanese since 1994. His major translation work includes: "Bittersweet Passage" (Author: Maryka Omatsu. 1994: Gendai Shokan Publishing, Tokyo)
The Japanese edition acquired "Best Manuscript in Translation" of the "Prime Minister's Award for Publishing 1994," "Throw Your Heart Over the Fence" (Author: Diane Dupuy. Sakuhokusha Publishing,Tokyo.2000) Lecturer on the history of Japanese Canadians, Canada's muti-culturalism, etc. at several universities in Japan.
Takeo Yamashiro (forthcoming)
Respondants:
Etsuko Kato is a Senior Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2001) and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia (2001-2002). Her publications include: "The Mind Roaming above the Ocean: Mental Health of Young Japanese Sojourners in Vancouver" in Changing Japanese Business, Economy and Society (ed. by Masao Nakamura, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Leslie Komori (forthcoming)
Takashi Ogasawara I was born in Kyoto in 1944 and grew up in Shimane-ken and moved to Osaka in 1963. I lived in Osaka until 1971. In May of 1971 I left Japan and traveled North America and Mexico about one and a half years. At the end of 1972, I entered Canada, 1973 obtained a Landed Immigrant Status and in 2001 became a Canadian Citizen. From 1973 to 1975 I worked for a mining promotion company and for B.C. Ministry of Mine and Energy, Mapping Department as a map maker in Vancouver. In 1975, I started to work for Canadian Forest Products, Englewood Logging Division at Woss, northern Vancouver Island (150km north of Campbell River) as a draftsman. My family moved to Campbell River from Vancouver in 1976 and after the second child was born they joined me at Woss in 1979. We lived at Woss until 1987 and then we moved back to Campbell River. We live in Campbell River ever since. After 12 years of commuting from Campbell River to Divisional office at Woss, I was transferred to the Campbell River Office in 1999. I retired from Canfor in 2004 after 29 years of service as a G.I.S. Technician.After my retirement I do a lot of volunteering work, such as the Salvation Army, Terry Fox Run, Campbell River and Ishikari Twinning Society, a local mountaineering club, and a local Nikkei Japanese community. My hobbies are mountain climbing and photography, and I have been a member of Canadian Alpine Club since 1994.
Naoko Takaei (forthcoming)
Mitsuo Hayashi Born and raised in Iida, Nagano, Japan. Graduated from Chuo University in Tokyo (BA, Economics) and New York University, USA (MBA, International Marketing). Worked 30 years for NKK Corporation, Japanese steel manufacturing, engineering and ship building company, specializing in the project marketing, export and general management, stationed in New York (twice) and Vancouver (twice) for over 22 years. Retired in 1993 and moved to Vancouver as a retired immigrant. Involved in various Nikkei community organizations and activities as a volunteer since 1994: Currently, Senior Advisor-Community Relations (former President) of National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre, Director of Nikkei Place Foundation, Director of Canada Japan Society of BC, Vice President of Nikka Health Care Society. President of Urasenke Tankokai Vancouver Association and Chair of the Official Board of Vancouver Japanese United Church-Japanese Speaking.
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