Maryka Omatsu's family was among those whose lives were shattered and properties taken by the Canadian government's harsh and racist actions against Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Bittersweet Passage is a moving account of the Japanese Canadian struggle to come to terms with a painful history. It is also the story of the author's own odyssey to rediscover her family's past in both Japan and Canada and as a key figure in the movement to win redress from the government.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971/.004956
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781897071908 9780921284581
- LCCN
- D766.15
- LCCN Item number
- O43 1992eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (188 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00221945 (OCoLC)753328170 (CaOOCEL)423992
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10
- FOREWORD 12
- 1 The End 18
- 2 On Being An Alien 34
- 3 Yamato-Damashii vs the Lesson of the Bamboo 52
- 4 War Stories 72
- 5 The Tide Turns: Inside the Japanese Canadian Community 94
- 6 Legal Pawns of Fate 112
- 7 In the Corridors of Power: 1984-88 128
- 8 Taking It to the People 146
- 9 Glass Ball Reflections 160
- EPILOGUE 176
- NOTES 182
- INDEX 188
- A 188
- B 188
- C 188
- E 188
- F 188
- G 188
- H 188
- I 188
- J 188
- K 188
- M 188
- N 189
- O 189
- P 189
- R 189
- S 189
- T 189
- U 189
- V 189
- W 189
- Y 189
