“A Powerful Protector of the Japanese People”: The History of the Japanese Hospital in Steveston, British Columbia, Canada, 1896–1942

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-81
Author(s):  
Helen Vandenberg
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
World War ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
Japanese Internment ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Hospital Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Village

AbstractFrom 1896 to 1942, a Japanese hospital operated in the village of Steveston, British Columbia, Canada. For the first 4 years, Japanese Methodist missionaries utilized a small mission building as a makeshift hospital, until a larger institution was constructed by the local Japanese Fishermen’s Association in 1900. The hospital operated until the Japanese internment, after the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. This study offers important commentary about the relationships between health, hospitals, and race in British Columbia during a period of increased immigration and economic upheaval. From the unique perspective of Japanese leaders, this study provides new insight about how Japanese populations negotiated hospital care, despite a context of severe racial discrimination. Japanese populations utilized Christianization, fishing expertise, and hospital work to garner more equitable access to opportunities and resources. This study demonstrates that in addition to providing medical treatment, training grounds for health-care workers, and safe refuge for the sick, hospitals played a significant role in confronting broader racialized inequities in Canada’s past.

scholarly journals Rosebery Single

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Nunoda
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
World War ◽  
Internment Camps ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Subsequent Research ◽  
Japanese Internment ◽  
Media Construction

Mixed media construction with sound loop of washing rice. The work in this exhibition, Rosebery Single, memorializes the internment experiences of Nunoda’s family. Rosebery Single, is part of a larger project, Ghostown, in which Nunoda visually represents his ongoing research of the Japanese internment camps in British Columbia during World War II. Nunoda describes this as a sort of “pilgrimage” based on the first-hand accounts from his parents and grandparents, providing a focus for his subsequent research.

scholarly journals Home, Militarism and Nostalgia in Japanese Popular Song from 1937 to 1945

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-147
Author(s):  
Sabiene Strasser
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
World War ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
War Effort ◽  
History Of

Abstract The article focuses on the representation of wartime Japan as a home (and home country) by analysing contemporary popular songs. Within this frame I show examples of how the Japanese state managed to influence the Japanese people through propaganda songs in order to gain the people’s moral support for the war effort. My essay aims further at drawing a picture of Japan’s musical world from the latter half of the 1930s to the end of World War II, as a detailed consideration of popular music and its surroundings always allows us to interpret much more than expected at first view. In addition, I consider the mass media as a supporter of Japan’s ideological aims. The history of radio and record companies is firmly interwoven with the efforts of the Japanese state to manipulate people during the war years. The contribution from artists must also be considered an important part of this mosaic.

Racist Attachments: Dakko-chan, Black Kitsch, and Kawaii Culture

2022 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-187
Author(s):  
Erica Kanesaka
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
Security Treaty ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Turmoil

Abstract This article explores the ties between anti-Black racist kitsch and kawaii culture through the history of the Dakko-chan doll. In what came to be called the “Dakko-chan boom” of 1960, tens of thousands of Japanese people lined up to purchase an inflatable blackface doll with a circular red mouth, grass skirt, and winking hologram eyes. Dakko means “to hug,” and Dakko-chan's astronomical popularity resulted in part from the way the doll could be worn as an accessory, attached to the body by its hugging arms. This article asks what it meant for Japan, a nation still recovering from World War II and the American occupation, to quite literally embrace American blackface in the form of an embraceable doll. Rejecting the claim that blackface loses its significance in a Japanese context, this article argues that Dakko-chan cannot be considered devoid of racist meanings. Emerging amid the political turmoil surrounding the revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty, Dakko-chan came to express a wide range of contradictory feelings about race, sex, and nation, illustrating how affective attachments to racist forms have accrued rather than dissipated through their movement into new cultural contexts.

Les Revenants, Tignes, and the Return of Post-war Modernisation

2019 ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Clark ◽  
Brian R. Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
World War ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Village ◽  
Trente Glorieuses

This chapter reads the French television hit Les Revenants (The Returned, Canal+, 2012-2015) as a parable of the uneasy legacy of France’s “Trente glorieuses,” the period of rapid economic growth that followed World War II. Situating the show’s fictional city and its story of failing dams in the history of the real dam that inspired it—the dam that displaced the village of Tignes in 1952—the chapter argues that Les Revenants encourages us to re-think the Trente glorieuses and its long-term effects and to ask both what became of the projects that defined these years and what has re-emerged from the shadows of their glories—from failing infrastructure and a police surveillance state to the environmental consequences now associated with the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals Living in the Vicinity of the Yugoslav–Hungarian Border (1945–1960)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
Péter Vukman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Background Information ◽  
World War ◽  
Rapid Improvement ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
South Slavs ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Village

The history of Hungarian–Yugoslav relations was characterized by frequent changes after 1945. The rapid improvement of bilateral relations was abruptly interrupted by the escalation of the Soviet–Yugoslav conflict in 1948–1949. Tensions eased only after 1953 when a slow and time-consuming process of normalization started between the two states. These often-dramatic twists and turns had a profound and often intense impact on the everyday lives of those Hungarians and ethnic South Slavs who lived in the vicinity of the Hungarian–Yugoslav border. Breaks, changes, and continuities can all be observed at the local level. In this article, I will examine these factors in the case of South Slavic minorities living in Hercegszántó (Santovo), a village located in an area known as the Baja triangle. In the first part of the paper, I will provide the reader with some background information on the history of Hungarian–Yugoslav relations, with a particular emphasis on minorities. Then in the second part, I will analyse the ethnic and social composition of the village, its history after World War II, the effects of rapidly deteriorating Hungarian–Yugoslav relations after 1948 and, finally, the hopes and fears of the local Magyars and South Slavs during the period of normalization (1953–1956). My conclusions are based on archival research mostly carried out at several Hungarian archives.

scholarly journals Narrating Japanese Canadians In and Out of the Canadian Nation: A Critique of Realist Forms of Representation

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
World War ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Japanese Canadian ◽  
Systematic Plan ◽  
Seconde Guerre Mondiale ◽  
Objective Research

Abstract: During World War II the Canadian government implemented a systematic plan to rid British Columbia of over 22,000 Japanese Canadians. Forty years later, Japanese Canadians mobilized in a movement to demand redress. To make their case, they used realism with its objective research methods to prove that the government's actions violated their rights. But while realism helped them win their case, this paper claims that there were ramifications. While realism made it possible to narrate Japanese Canadians into the history of the Canadian nation as fully assimilated citizens, this implicitly accepted the nation's hostile construction of racial others. Through an analysis of the Japanese Canadian film Minoru: Memory of Exile, this paper shows how difficult it is to shed realism once it is institutionalized, underlining the importance of developing a critical awareness of how it operates. Résumé: Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le gouvernement canadien mit en place un plan systématique pour débarrasser la Colombie-Britannique de plus de 22,000 Canadiens japonais. Quarante ans plus tard, les Canadiens japonais s'organisèrent dans un mouvement pour demander réparation. Pour plaider leur cause, ils utilisèrent le réalisme, avec ses méthodes de recherche objectives, pour prouver que les actions du gouvernement avaient violé leurs droits. Mais, même si le réalisme les aida à gagner leur cause, cet article soutient qu'il y a eu des ramifications. Bien que le réalisme rendit possible d'inclure les Canadiens japonais dans l'histoire de la nation canadienne comme citoyens complètement assimilés, il marqua une acceptation implicite de la construction hostile par cette nation d'autres raciaux. Au moyen d'une analyse du film canadien-japonais Minoru: Memory of Exile (Minoru: Souvenir d'exil ), cet article montre combien il est difficile d'abandonner le réalisme une fois qu'il est institutionnalisé, soulignant l'importance de développer une conscience critique de son fonctionnement.

scholarly journals Representasi Sejarah dan Dampak Perang Dunia II dalam Komik Kono Sekai No Katasumi Ni Karya Fumiyo Kouno

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Reza Taufan Adhitya ◽  
Renny Anggraeny ◽  
Ida Ayu Laksmita Sari
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
World War ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to find out and understand the representation of the history of World War II and the impact of World War II on the Japanese, especially the people who live in Kure in the comic Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni by Fumiyo Kouno. The method used in this study is the descriptive analysis method. The theory used in this study is the theory of New Historicism by Stephen Greenbalt. The results show, there are five historical facts, the establishment of tonarigumi, the creation of the tatemono sokai policy, the air attack on Kure, the attack on the Hiro Naval Base, and the dropping of Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, which also affected Kure area which is 20 kilometres to southeast Hiroshima. In addition, as a result of the occurrence of World War II, the mindset of the Japanese people regarding war changed from those previously zealous in warfare to preferring to maintain peace. On the other hand, the impact of World War II is still being felt today by the Japanese people, especially for victims who survived and were still alive until the time this comic was published.

scholarly journals Narrative sources on the events of the Great patriotic war in the Kuban

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
Ju. G. Bich ◽  
T. A. Samsonenko ◽  
E. L. Mishustina
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Difficult Times ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

This article presents the results of studies on the daily history of the Soviet period of our state during the difficult times of World War II. The work considers the southern region of the USSR, the territory of the Krasnodar Territory (the city of Krasnodar and the village of Pavlovskaya.) Some local families left the Kuban at the beginning of the war and left, for example, to evacuate. Others were forced to stay, during the occupation of the region and its capital by the Nazi troops in 1942-1943 they were in the Kuban, in Krasnodar. This article is based on both previously unpublished memoirs of city residents collected by the authors (memoirs by Razinskaya S.A., Zhigir E.G., Morozova E.V., Yesayan M.A.) and published as personal memoirs and diaries (Khudoley I.I., Chalenko K.N.). For the first time, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory of our country in World War II, an attempt was made to put into scientific circulation these materials, telling about the pre-occupation period of the Territory and the city of Krasnodar, as well as directly the time of the occupation of the southern region by fascist invaders. It is concluded that the stories of ordinary people – eyewitnesses to important historical events, the so-called narrative sources (oral and recorded memoirs, letters, diaries and school essays) provide historians with invaluable material to restore the picture of everyday life of the military historical era.There is no conflict of interests.

The Film World’s Cooperative Store: Institutions and Films of the 1930s and 1940s

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Early History ◽  
World War ◽  
International Context ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This chapter traces the early history of state-sponsored informational filmmaking in Denmark, emphasising its organisation as a ‘cooperative’ of organisations and government agencies. After an account of the establishment and early development of the agency Dansk Kulturfilm in the 1930s, the chapter considers two of its earliest productions, both process films documenting the manufacture of bricks and meat products. The broader context of documentary in Denmark is fleshed out with an account of the production and reception of Poul Henningsen’s seminal film Danmark (1935), and the international context is accounted for with an overview of the development of state-supported filmmaking in the UK, Italy and Germany. Developments in the funding and output of Dansk Kulturfilm up to World War II are outlined, followed by an account of the impact of the German Occupation of Denmark on domestic informational film. The establishment of the Danish Government Film Committee or Ministeriernes Filmudvalg kick-started aprofessionalisation of state-sponsored filmmaking, and two wartime public information films are briefly analysed as examples of its early output. The chapter concludes with an account of the relations between the Danish Resistance and an emerging generation of documentarists.

Recasting Bourgeois Europe

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles S. Maier ◽  
Charles S. Maier
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Group Representation ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
European History ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Country Analysis ◽  
Economic Stabilization

The author, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published this, his first book, in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, the book provides a comparative history of three European nations—France, Germany, and Italy—and argues that they did not simply return to a prewar status quo, but achieved a new balance of state authority and interest group representation. While most previous accounts presented the decade as a prelude to the Depression and dictatorships, the author suggests that the stabilization of the 1920s, vulnerable as it was, foreshadowed the more enduring political stability achieved after World War II. The immense and ambitious scope of this book, its ability to follow diverse histories in detail, and its effort to explain stabilization—and not just revolution or breakdown—have made it a classic of European history.

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