Japanese Canadian Internment - Nikkei Stories

Produced by Orbit Films Inc. Narration by Samuel Araki Japanese Canadian Internment was when the Canadian government removed all of the Japanese Canadians from the British Columbia coast following the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, invasion of Malaya, attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent Canadian declaration of war on Japan during World War II. This forced relocation subjected many Japanese Canadians to government-enforced curfews and interrogations, job and property losses, and forced repatriation to Japan. Beginning after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and lasting until 1949 (four years after World War II had ended), Canadians of Japanese heritage were removed from their homes and businesses and sent to internment camps in the B.C. interior, and to farms and internment camps across Canada. The Canadian government shut down all Japanese-language newspapers, took possession of businesses and personal property. In order to fund internme