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{{Short description|Ethnic group}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Japanese Canadians
| native_name      = {{small|日系カナダ人}}<br/><small>Nikkei Kanadajin</small>
| image            = Japanese Distribution in Canada, 2021 Census.jpg
| caption          = Population distribution of Japanese Canadians by census division, 2021 census
| population       = <small>[[Canada 2001 Census|2001 Census]]</small>: 85,000 (by ancestry, 77% native born)<ref name="2001 data">{{cite news|title=The Japanese Community in Canada|newspaper=[[Statistics Canada]]|date=2007|url=http://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-621-x/89-621-x2007013-eng.htm}}</ref><br/>
<small>[[Canada 2016 Census|2016 Census]]</small>: 121,485 (by ancestry)<ref name="Japanese Canadians">{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=1&LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GK=0&GRP=0&PID=105396&PRID=0&PTYPE=105277&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2013&THEME=95&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF= |title=2011 National Household Survey: Data tables |author=Statistics Canada |author-link=Statistics Canada |access-date=11 February 2014}}</ref>
| popplace         = [[Vancouver]], [[Burnaby]], [[Richmond, British Columbia|Richmond]], [[Lethbridge]], [[Edmonton]]
| langs            = [[Canadian English|English]], [[Canadian French|French]], and [[Japanese language|Japanese]]
| rels             = [[Irreligion]] (46%), [[Protestant]] (24%), [[Buddhism]] (16%), [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] (9%), and other (5%)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-621-x/89-621-x2007013-eng.htm#7 | title=The Japanese Community in Canada }}</ref>
| related          = [[Japanese diaspora|Japanese]], [[Japanese Americans]], [[Japanese Brazilians]], [[Japanese Peruvians]], [[Japanese Mexicans]]
}}
{{Nihongo|'''Japanese Canadians'''|日系カナダ人|Nikkei Kanadajin|{{langx|fr|Canadiens japonais}}}} are [[Canadians|Canadian citizens]] of [[Japanese people|Japanese]] ancestry. Japanese Canadians are mostly concentrated in [[Western Canada]], especially in the province of [[Japanese Canadians in British Columbia|British Columbia]], which hosts the largest Japanese community in the country with the majority of them living in and around [[Vancouver]]. In 2016, there were 121,485 Japanese Canadians throughout Canada.<ref name="Japanese Canadians" />

== Generations ==
The term [[Japanese diaspora|Nikkei]] (日系) was coined by sociologists and encompasses all of the world's Japanese immigrants across generations. Japanese descendants living overseas have special names for each of their generations. These are formed by combining one of the [[Japanese numerals]] with the Japanese word for [[generation]] (''sei'', 世):
*[[Issei]] (一世) – The first generation of immigrants, born in Japan before moving to Canada.
*[[Nisei]] (二世) – The second generation, born in Canada to Issei parents not born in Canada.
*[[Sansei]] (三世) – The third generation, born in Canada to Nisei parents born in Canada.
*[[Yonsei (Japanese diaspora)|Yonsei]] (四世) – The fourth generation, born in Canada to Sansei parents born in Canada.
*[[Gosei (Japanese diaspora)|Gosei]] (五世) – The fifth generation, born in Canada to Yonsei parents born in Canada.

==History==
===Early years===
The first Japanese settler in Canada was [[Manzo Nagano]], who lived in [[Victoria, British Columbia]] in 1877 (a mountain in the province was named after him in 1977). The first generation or [[Issei]], mostly came to [[Vancouver Island]], the [[Fraser Valley]] and [[Rivers Inlet]] from fishing villages on the islands of [[Kyūshū]] and [[Honshū]] between 1877 and 1928.  A Japanese community newspaper for Vancouver residents was first launched in 1897. Around the same time, the Fraser River Japanese Fishermen's Association Hospital in [[Steveston, British Columbia|Steveston]] was established after the local hospital refused to admit and treat Japanese immigrants.<ref name=tanaka>{{cite web |last=Tanaka |first=Yusuke |title=Waves of Pandemics and the Prewar Japanese Canadian Community |url=http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2020/10/23/waves-of-pandemics/ |website=Discover Nikkei |date=October 23, 2020}}</ref>

In 1907, the [[Asiatic Exclusion League#Canada|Asiatic Exclusion League]] was established in Vancouver and, by September of that year, led a mob of rioters who vandalized both Chinese and Japanese neighbourhoods.<ref name=baker>{{citation |last=Baker |first=Rafferty |title=Riot Walk tour recounts dark moment in Vancouver's history | newspaper=[[CBC News]] |date=November 17, 2019 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/riot-walk-vancouver-history-tour-1.5358936}}</ref> In 1908, Canada and Japan signed a [[Gentlemen's Agreement of 1908|Gentlemen's Agreement]] intended to curb further Japanese immigration to Canada.<ref name=ELee07>{{cite journal | last= Lee | first= Erika | year = 2007 | title = The "Yellow Peril" and Asian Exclusion in the Americas | journal = Pacific Historical Review | volume = 76 | issue = 4| page = 551 | doi= 10.1525/phr.2007.76.4.537 }}</ref>

Influenced by the American [[Immigration Act of 1924]], members of the British Columbia parliament pushed for a total federal ban on immigration in the 1920s. After several years of negotiations, Japan eventually agreed to reduce its immigration quota under the Gentleman's Agreement to only 150 persons per year.<ref name=robinson>{{Cite book| last = Robinson | first = Greg | title = A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America | publisher = Columbia University Press | year = 2009 | page = 24| isbn = 978-0231129220}}</ref>

===Internment===
{{Main|Japanese Canadian internment}}
On January 14, 1942, the [[Canadian government]] used the ''[[War Measures Act]]'' to brand Japanese-Canadians enemy aliens and to categorize them as security threats. There were 20,881 Japanese placed in internment camps and road camps in British Columbia, and prisoner-of-war camps in Ontario. Families were also sent as forced labourers to farms throughout the prairies. Three quarters of them were already citizens in Canada. A parallel situation occurred in the United States, the [[Japanese American internment]].<ref>Ann Gomer Sunahara, ''The politics of racism: The uprooting of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War'' (James Lorimer & Co, 1981)</ref>

The property and homes of Japanese Canadians living in the province of British Columbia were seized and sold off without their consent in 1943. The funds were used to pay for their internment. They also had to "pay rent" for living in the internment shacks that they were assigned. In 1945, after the war, as part of the continued effort to remove all Japanese Canadians from British Columbia, Prime Minister [[William Lyon MacKenzie King]] had his cabinet pass Orders-in-Council to extend the powers of the ''War Measures Act'' and give Japanese Canadians two "options": to be relocated to another province "East of the Rockies" or to go "back" to Japan though most were born in Canada and had never been to Japan.{{fact|date=April 2024}} After organized protests by against their treatment, they were finally given the right to vote in 1949. Mobility restrictions were lifted in 1949.{{fact|date=April 2024}}

===After World War II===
Until 1948, Japanese-Canadians, both ''Issei'' and Canadian-born ''Nisei'', were denied the right to vote. Those born in the 1950s and 1960s in Canada are mostly ''[[Sansei]]'', the third generation. ''Sansei'' usually have little knowledge of the [[Japanese language]]. Over 75% of the ''Sansei'' have married non-Japanese. ''Nisei'' and ''Sansei'' generally identify themselves not as fully Japanese but as Canadians first who happen to have Japanese ancestry.

Since 1967, the second wave of immigrants were usually highly educated and resided in urban areas.<ref>Ken Adachi, ''The enemy that never was: A history of the Japanese Canadians'' (McClelland & Stewart, 1976)</ref>

In the late 1970s and the 1980s, documents on the Japanese Canadian internment were released, and redress was sought by the National Association of Japanese Canadians, an organization representing Japanese Canadians nationally that was headed by [[Art Miki]] from Winnipeg. In 1986, it was shown that Japanese Canadians had lost $443 million during the internment. There were 63% of Canadians who supported redress and 45% who favoured individual compensation. On September 22, 1988, the National Association of Japanese Canadians succeeded in negotiating a redress settlement with the government at the time, under the leadership of Prime Minister [[Brian Mulroney]]. The settlement included $21,000 for each individual directly affected, which was by 1993 almost 18,000 survivors. The federal government also provided a community endowment fund to assist in rebuilding the community, which is run by the National Association of Japanese Canadians. In addition, to address the more systemic racism that led to the plan and later justifications of the effort to remove "all people of Japanese racial origin" from Canadian territory, the redress settlement included the establishment of the Race Relations Foundation and challenges to the ''War Measures Act''. The Prime Minister also offered a formal apology in the House of Commons and the certificate of acknowledgement of injustices of the past, which was sent to each Japanese Canadian whose rights had been stripped, incarcerated, dispossessed and forcibly displaced.

The younger generation of Japanese-Canadians born in the late 20th century are mostly ''Yonsei'', the fourth generation. Many ''Yonsei'' are of mixed racial descent. According to [[Statistics Canada]]'s 2001 census of population information, Japanese-Canadians were the Canadian visible minority group most likely to have a formal or common-law marriage with a non-Japanese partner. Out of the 25,100 couples in Canada in 2001 that had at least one Japanese person, in only 30% of them were both partners of Japanese descent. As of 2001, 65% of Canada's Japanese population was born in Canada.

==Education==
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[[Hoshū jugyō kō]] (Japanese supplementary schools) for instruction of the Japanese language include those in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Vancouver.<ref name=NAList>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20140330155208/http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/clarinet/002/006/001/002/002.htm 北米の補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在）]." () [[MEXT]]. Retrieved on May 5, 2014.</ref>

'''With teachers from Japan''':
* [[Toronto Japanese School]]
* {{nihongo|Vancouver Japanese School|バンクーバー補習授業校|Bankūbā Hoshū Jugyō Kō}} - Established on April 7, 1973 ([[Shōwa period|Showa]] Year 48).<ref>[http://www.vjschool.net/ Home page]. Vancouver Japanese School. Retrieved on April 2, 2015.</ref>

'''Without teachers from Japan''':<ref name="NAList"/>
* Alberta
** [[Calgary]] Hoshuko Japanese School Association (カルガリー補習授業校 ''Karugarī Hoshū Jugyō Kō'')<ref>"[http://www.calgaryhoshuko.org/ トップページ]." Calgary Hoshuko Japanese School Association. Retrieved on February 15, 2015.</ref>
** Metro [[Edmonton]] Japanese Community School (MEJCS; エドモントン補習校 ''Edomonton Hoshūkō'')<ref>"[http://www.edmontonjapaneseschool.com/time Time/Location] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215213822/http://www.edmontonjapaneseschool.com/time |date=2015-02-15 }}." Metro Edmonton Japanese Community School. Retrieved on February 15, 2015.</ref>
* Nova Scotia
** Japanese School of [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] (ハリファックス補習授業校 ''Harifakkusu Hoshū Jugyō Kō'')
* Ontario
** [[London, Ontario|London]] (CA) Japanese School (ロンドン（CA）補習授業校 ''Rondon Hoshū Jugyō Kō'')
** The [[Ottawa]] Hoshuko (オタワ補習校 ''Otawa Hoshūkō'')<ref>"[http://www.ottawahoshuko.ca/contact.html Contact]." The Ottawa Hoshuko. Retrieved on February 15, 2015. "日本大使館 領事班 オタワ補習校事務局  （住所）255 Sussex Dr., Ottawa, ON"</ref>
* Quebec
** [[Montreal Hoshuko School]]
* Saskatchewan
** [[Saskatoon]] Japanese Language School (サスカトーン補習授業校 ''Sasukatōn Hoshū Jugyō Kō'')

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
| type = Canada
|1901|4738
|[[Canada 1911 Census|1911]]|9067
|[[Canada 1921 Census|1921]]|15868
|1931|23342
|1941|23149
|1951|21663
|1961|29157
|1971|37260
|1981|40995
|1986|54505
|1991|65680
|[[Canada 1996 Census|1996]]|77130
|[[Canada 2001 Census|2001]]|85225
|[[Canada 2006 Census|2006]]|98905
|[[Canada 2011 Census|2011]]|109740
|[[Canada 2016 Census|2016]]|121485
|[[Canada 2021 Census|2021]]|129425
}}

=== Japanese Canadians by province or territory ===
Japanese Canadian population by province and territory in Canada in 2021 according to [[Statistics Canada]]:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Province or territory]] !!  Japanese Canadians !! Percentage
|-
|style="background:silver" | '''{{flag|Canada}}''' || style="background:silver"  | 129,425 || style="background:silver" | 0.4%
|-
| {{flag|British Columbia}} || 54,640 || 1.1%
|-
| {{flag|Ontario}}  || 42,250 || 0.3%
|-
| {{flag|Alberta}}  || 18,605 || 0.4%
|-
| {{flag|Quebec}}  || 7,460 || 0.1%
|-
| {{flag|Manitoba}} ||2,770|| 0.2%
|-
| {{flag|Saskatchewan}} || 1,295  || 0.1%
|-
| {{flag|Nova Scotia}}  || 1,125 || 0.1%
|-
| {{flag|New Brunswick}} || 440 || 0.1%
|-
| {{flag|Yukon}}  || 275 || 0.7%
|-
| {{flag|Prince Edward Island}}  || 250 || 0.2%
|-
| {{flag|Newfoundland and Labrador}} || 150 || 0.0%
|-
| {{flag|Northwest Territories}}  || 145 || 0.4%
|-
| {{flag|Nunavut}}  || 15 || 0.0%
|}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Steveston (2635520330).jpg|Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in [[Steveston, British Columbia|Steveston]], [[Richmond, British Columbia|Richmond]], BC
File:Vancouver Japanese School and Hall.jpg|[[Vancouver Japanese Language School]] in Vancouver, BC is the oldest Japanese language school in Canada.
File:Vancouver_Buddhist_Church.jpg| Vancouver Buddhist Temple  in Vancouver, BC
File:Founding members of the Canadian Japanese Association at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial.jpeg|Founding members of the Canadian Japanese Association at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial in [[Stanley Park]], Vancouver, BC
File:Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre National Historic Site of Canada.jpg|[[Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre]] in [[New Denver, British Columbia|New Denver]], BC is designated as a [[National Historic Site of Canada]].
</gallery>

==Notable people==
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|*
===Academics===
*[[Audrey Kobayashi]], social scientist
*[[Yoshio Masui]], cell biologist
*[[Emi Nakamura]], economist
*[[Santa J. Ono]], biologist
*[[Irene Uchida]], scientist and Down syndrome researcher
*[[Noriko Yui]], mathematician

===Activists===
*[[Tomekichi Homma]], voting rights activist
*[[Art Miki]], activist
*[[Hide Hyodo Shimizu]], educator and Japanese-Canadian civil rights activist
*[[Setsuko Thurlow]], anti-nuclear and peace activist

===Architects===
*[[Bruce Kuwabara]], architect
*[[Raymond Moriyama]], architect

===Athletes===
*[[David Akutagawa]], karateka
* [[Noah Kenshin Browne]], soccer player
*[[Yuka Chokyu]], para-badminton player
*[[Christa Deguchi]], judoka
*[[Bill Hatanaka]], football player
*[[Shane Higashi]], karateka
*[[Nathan Hirayama]], rugby player
*[[Akito Hirose]], ice hockey player 
*[[Taro Hirose]], ice hockey player
*[[Kate Horne]], curler
*[[Martin Kariya]], ice hockey player
*[[Noriko Kariya]], boxer
*[[Paul Kariya]], ice hockey player
*[[Steve Kariya]], ice hockey player
*[[Yoshio Katsuta]], judoka
*[[Sarah Kawahara]], figure skater
*[[Jason Krog]], ice hockey player
*[[Jon Matsumoto]], ice hockey player
*[[Glenn Michibata]], tennis player
*[[Bryan Miki]], curler
*[[Keegan Messing]], figure skater
*[[Issey Nakajima-Farran]], soccer player
*[[Paris Nakajima-Farran]], soccer player
*[[Emily Nishikawa]], cross-country skier
*[[Kristy Odamura]], softball player
*[[Takemasa Okuyama]], karateka
*[[Stuart Percy]], ice hockey player
*[[Shigetaka Sasaki]], judoka
*[[Raymond Sawada]], ice hockey player
*[[Yoshio Senda]], judoka
*[[Devin Setoguchi]], ice hockey player  
*[[Masaru Shintani]], karateka
*[[Jamie Storr]], ice hockey player
*[[Vicky Sunohara]], ice hockey player and coach
*[[Nick Suzuki]], ice hockey player
*[[Ryan Suzuki]], ice hockey player
*[[Masao Takahashi]], judoka and author
*[[Phil Takahashi]], judoka
*[[Ray Takahashi]], wrestler and judoka
*[[Tina Takahashi]], judoka
*[[Atsuko Tanaka (ski jumper)|Atsuko Tanaka]], ski jumper
*[[Yuki Tsubota]], freestyle skier
*[[Masami Tsuruoka]], karateka
*[[Katie Tsuyuki]], snowboarder
*[[John Tucker (ice hockey)|John Tucker]], ice hockey player
*[[Nyl Yakura]], badminton player
*[[Kimiko Zakreski]], snowboarder

===Film and broadcasting===
*[[Nobu and Mio Adilman|Mio Adilman]], actor, TV host and writer, ''[[Trailer Park Boys]]'', [[The Strain (TV series)|''The Strain'']]
*[[Nobu and Mio Adilman|Nobu Adilman]], actor, TV host and writer ''[[Trailer Park Boys]]'', ''[[Food Jammers]]''
*[[Denis Akiyama]], actor and voice actor, [[Johnny Mnemonic (film)|''Johnny Mnemonic'']], [[Sailor Moon (TV series)|''Sailor Moon'']]
*[[Jeff Chiba Stearns]], documentarian and animator, ''[[One Big Hapa Family]]''
*[[Brian Clement]], filmmaker, [[Meat Market (film)|''Meat Market'']], [[Binge & Purge (film)|''Binge & Purge'']]
*[[Severn Cullis-Suzuki]], environmentalist, author and television host
*[[Kazumi Evans]], actress and voice actress, ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]''
*[[Jeananne Goossen]], actress, ''[[Falcon Beach]]'', ''[[Criminal Minds]]''
*[[Mary Ito]], radio and television host
*[[Robert Ito]], actor, ''[[Quincy, M.E.]]'', ''[[Falcon Crest]]''
*[[Brenda Kamino]], actress, [[Carter (TV series)|''Carter'']]
*[[Hiro Kanagawa]], actor, ''[[Smallville]]'', [[The Man in the High Castle (TV series)|''The Man in the High Castle'']]
*[[Andrew Kishino]], voice actor and rapper, ''[[The LeBrons]]'', ''[[Fortnite]]''
*[[Byron Lawson]], actor, ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]''
*[[Margaret Lyons]], former [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] vice president
*[[Nobu McCarthy]], actress, [[The Wash (1988 film)|''The Wash'']]
*[[Philip Nozuka]], actor, ''[[Degrassi: The Next Generation]]''
*[[Linda Ohama]], documentary filmmaker
*[[Randall Okita]], screenwriter and filmmaker, ''[[The Lockpicker]]''
*[[Lauren Riihimaki]], YouTuber
*[[Tetsuro Shigematsu]], filmmaker, playwright and radio broadcaster
*[[Peter Shinkoda]], actor, ''[[Falling Skies]]'', [[Daredevil (TV series)|''Daredevil'']]
*[[Dylan Akio Smith]], film and video game director, ''[[Man. Feel. Pain.]]'', [[FIFA (video game series)|''FIFA'']]
*[[Jennifer Spence]], actress, ''[[Stargate Universe]]'', [[Continuum (TV series)|''Continuum'']]
*[[Peter Stursberg]], writer and broadcaster
*[[Richard Stursberg]], former CBC executive vice president
*[[David Suzuki]], environmentalist and documentarian, ''[[The Nature of Things]]''
*[[Mutsumi Takahashi]], television news anchor
*[[Lauren Toyota]], television host
*[[Mia Uyeda]], model and VJ
*[[Jai West]], actor, [[Hazard (2005 film)|''Hazard'']], ''[[Big Bang Love, Juvenile A]]''
*[[Lisa Yamanaka]], actress and voice actress, [[The Magic School Bus (TV series)|''The Magic School Bus'']]

===Musicians===
*[[Kenji Fusé]], violinist
*[[Saya Gray]], alternative pop bassist
*[[Aristazabal Hawkes]], double bassist, [[Guillemots (band)|Guillemots]]
*[[Ron Korb]], flautist
*[[Kytami]], violinist
*[[Catherine Manoukian]], violinist
*[[Mark Takeshi McGregor]], flutist
*[[George Nozuka]], R&B singer
*[[Justin Nozuka]], singer-songwriter
*[[Jon Kimura Parker]], pianist
*[[Alcvin Ramos]], [[shakuhachi]] player
*[[Tim Tamashiro]], jazz singer and radio broadcaster
*[[Diyet van Lieshout]], folk singer
*[[Jonah Yano]], indie pop singer-songwriter
*[[Christine Yoshikawa]], pianist

===Politicians and government officials===
*[[S. I. Hayakawa]], former [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] for California
*[[Rob Miyashiro]], [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta|MLA]] for [[Lethbridge-West]]
*[[Bev Oda]], former [[House of Commons of Canada|MP]] for [[Durham (electoral district)|Durham]], cabinet minister
*[[Thomas Shoyama]], economist and civil servant, early proponent and designer of [[Medicare (Canada)|Medicare]]
*[[David Tsubouchi]], former [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Canada)|MPP]] for [[Markham (provincial electoral district)|Markham]], cabinet minister
*[[Naomi Yamamoto]], former [[Legislative Assembly of British Columbia|MLA]], for [[North Vancouver-Lonsdale]], cabinet minister
*[[Tany Yao]], [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta|MLA]] for [[Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo]]
===Visual artists===
*[[Roy Kiyooka]], painter, photographer and multi-media artist
*[[Nobuo Kubota]], multi-media artist
*[[Nina Matsumoto]], comic book artist, [[Saturnalia (webcomic)|''Saturnalia'']]
*[[Takeshi Miyazawa]], comic book artist, [[Mary Jane Watson|''Mary Jane'']], [[Runaways (comics)|''Runaways'']]
*[[Betty Mochizuki]], painter and printmaker
*[[Cindy Mochizuki]], multimedia artist
*[[Tomori Nagamoto]], visual artist and poet
*[[Kazuo Nakamura]], painter and sculptor
*[[Matsubara Naoko]], printmaker and painter
*[[Haruko Okano]], mixed-media artist
*[[Tim Okamura]], painter and graphic artist
*[[Midi Onodera]], video artist
*[[Marjorie Pigott]], painter
*[[Jillian Tamaki]], comic book artist, ''[[This One Summer]]''
*[[Miyuki Tanobe]], painter
*[[Takao Tanabe]], painter

===Writers and authors===
*[[Ken Adachi]], journalist
*[[Hiromi Goto]], writer, ''[[The Kappa Child]]''
*[[Tamai Kobayashi]], novelist and short story writer
*[[Joy Kogawa]], author, ''[[Obasan]]''
*[[Kyo Maclear]], novelist and children's author
*[[Roy Miki]], poet and scholar
*[[Kenzo Mori]], journalist and newspaper publisher
*[[Kim Moritsugu]], novelist
*[[Sachiko Murakami]], poet
*[[Norimitsu Onishi]], journalist
*[[Ruth Ozeki]], novelist, ''[[My Year of Meats]]'', ''[[All Over Creation]]''
*[[Michelle Sagara]], novelist
*[[Kerri Sakamoto]], novelist and screenwriter, [[Strawberry Fields (1997 film)|''Strawberry Fields'']]
*[[Mark Sakamoto]], writer and lawyer
*[[Aki Shimazaki]], novelist and translator
*[[Mariko Tamaki]], graphic novelist, ''[[This One Summer]]'', ''[[She-Hulk]]''
*[[Grace Eiko Thomson]], curator and memoirist

===Other===
*[[Dan Liu]], fashion designer
*[[Masumi Mitsui]], [[World War I]] veteran
*[[Masajiro Miyazaki]], physician
*[[Manzo Nagano]], first recorded Japanese immigrant to Canada
*[[Gordon Goichi Nakayama]], Anglican priest
*[[Kyedae]], online streamer
*[[Rick Shiomi]], playwright and director, [[Yellow Fever (play)|''Yellow Fever'']]
*[[Hidekazu Tojo]], chef, inventor of the [[B.C. roll]]
*[[Bob Izumi]], [[Angling|Angler]]

}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Japan|Canada}}
* [[Asian Canadians]]
* [[Japanese Canadians in British Columbia]]
* [[Japanese Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area|Japanese in Toronto]]
* [[Canadians in Japan]]
* [[Japanese Americans]]
* [[East Asian Canadians]]
* [[Judo in Canada]]
* [[Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Temples of Canada]]
* [[Reference re Persons of Japanese Race]]
* ''[[The Vancouver Asahi]]'', 2014 [[Cinema of Japan|Japanese film]] described [[Asahi (baseball team)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* Adachi, Ken. ''The enemy that never was: A history of the Japanese Canadians'' (McClelland & Stewart, 1976)
* Sunahara, Ann Gomer. ''The politics of racism: The uprooting of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War'' (James Lorimer & Co, 1981)
* Ward, W. Peter, ''The Japanese in Canada'' (Canadian Historical Association Booklets, 1982) [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/008004/f2/E-3_en.pdf online] 21pp

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120504020748/http://multiculturalcanada.ca/ Multicultural Canada website] images in the BC Multicultural Photograph Collection and digitized issues of The New Canadian (Japanese-Canadian newspaper) and Tairiku Jiho (The Continental Times)
* [http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/landingpage/collection/jphotos Japanese Canadians Photograph Collection] – A photo album from the UBC Library Digital Collections chronicling the treatment of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia during World War II
* [http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/landingpage/collection/tairikunipp Tairiku Nippō] – Japanese-Canadian newspaper published between 1907 and 1941, and now digitized by the UBC Library Digital Collections

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