Stone Voices: Wartime Writings of Japanese Canadian Issei

by Keibo Oiwa, Joy Kogawa (Foreword)

Winner, 1992 Canada-Japan Book Award With the bombing of Pearl Harbour in December 1941, all persons of Japanese descent were declared 'enemy aliens.' Their assets were seized and most of the Japanese Canadian population was relocated or sent to internment camps. Stone Voices is a selection of memoirs, diaries, and letters written by four Issei, the first generation of Japanese to settle in Canada.

Genres: Japan, History, Canada

254 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Frederic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many in the US don't realize that Japanese-Canadians were interned like Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor. Some years ago I saw an exhibit at the MacCord Museum in Montreal that dealt with this, and having these original accounts by Issei who were interned is a powerful addition to the literature on that piece of history.