Join Nikkei Australia member Yuki Kawakami and other panelists from Canada and the US in a special discussion Routes of Rememberance about the Tomoshibi Tour – an annual visit to the sites of internment and incarceration of Nikkei people in Canada – part of the Past Wrongs Future Choices (PWFC) international project. Nikkei Australia is a project partner.
Connecting Our Global Community is an event hosted by the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre in Canada, and includes a book talk about the Japanese Canadian movement and a panel with former and current participants of the Tomoshibi Tour. Topic explored include – ‘what participants have learned in these experiences of history. Why return to places of past harm and trauma?’
Nikkei Australia members Yuki Kawakami participated in the 2024 Tomoshibi Tour, Sophie Constable was a participant in 2023, and Arisa Yura will join the tour in July 2025.
The event is held at the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre, and to join online, please register here or by using the QR code below.
Date AEST: Sunday 13 July 2025
Book Talk begins: 7:30 am AEST
Panel begins: 10:00 am AEST
A sneak preview of some of the works from the When You Call My Name arts project, to be launched in September 2025, will feature at the Museum.
More about Tomoshibi Tour:
‘For more than twenty years, the Nikkei National Museum’s Tomoshibi 灯 Journey Bus Tour has travelled to sites of Japanese Canadian incarceration in British Columbia. On these annual trips, people who lived through the ordeal of the 1940s, their descendants, and members of the wider public have learned a history of Canadian injustice and community resilience in the places where incarceration happened. In recent years, the tour has been enhanced through partnership with Past Wrongs, Future Choices, which invites students, teachers from across Canada, and international educators to join the tour as part of a course at the University of Victoria.’
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