Category Education

Education Team Meeting

Recently, a team of BC-based educators gathered at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre in Burnaby. Joining them was the core Teacher Education advisory committee of Masako Fukawa, Greg Miyanaga, Vivian Wakabayashi Rygnestad, and Connie Kadota, Project Director Mike…

Teaching Resources Committee

The Sixfold framework originally approved by the NAJC BC Redress project, the NAJC executine board, and the BC Government, is now implemented through JCLS and includes anti-racism (non-monetary, involving acknowledgment); seniors’ health & wellness; heritage; community & culture; monument; and…

Meet the Teacher Education Committee

Tell me about yourselves, as it relates to this strand of the Japanese Canadian Legacies. Mas I worked in education as a classroom teacher and administrator for 30 years in Nanaimo, and also taught at two colleges in Tokyo. I was…


Japanese Canadian Legacies are initiatives that honour our elders past and present. We are grateful to be doing this work on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples.