Landscapes of Injustice Publications, Newsletters and Media Coverage
Landscapes of Injustice Books
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, editor
Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective of the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Sugiman, Pamela, editors
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017
Kagetsu, Jack Tadashi
University of Victoria Press, 2017
Publications
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Best, Leah, Kajiwara, Sherri, Kobayashi, Audrey, Blomley, Nick “Exhibition exposes multi-generational trauma caused by the dispossession of Japanese Canadians” Op-Ed Vancouver Sun October 2, 2020
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective
“Japanese Canadians deserve justice from BC”, Op-Ed Globe and Mail September 20, 2019
Lutz, John, Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Findlay, Kaitlin, Kurushima, Tsugio, Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective
“Island Voices: Teahouse plan offers a vision for Esquimalt”, Op-Ed Times Colonist April 24, 2019
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Findlay, Kaitlin, Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective
Holmes, Martin, Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective
“Algorithmic Determination of Japanese Ethnic Identity Based on Name”, Journal of the Japanese Association of Digital Humanities, Vol. 1 Issue 1 (2018)
Read, Heather, Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective
“The Legacy of a Hidden Camera: Acts of Making Japanese-Canadian Internment Camps During the Second World War, as Depicted in Tom Matsui’s Photograph Collection,” Material Culture Review Vol. 84 (2016)
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Adams, Eric, Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective
“Promises of Law: The Unlawful Dispossession of Japanese Canadians,”Osgoode Hall Law Journal 54, 3 (2017)
Awarded two separate prizes by the Canadian Historical Association, recognized as the best article in political history as well as the best article on the history of ethnicity, migration, and transnationalism in Canada
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, James, Matt
“A political apology is only the beginning”, Op-ed Globe and Mail, December 1, 2017
Okawa, Eiji,
Series of articles on the source materials of the Japanese Canadian experiences in the 1940s. Published in the October 2016 issue of Geppo-The Bulletin
Part 1 “Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective The Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians_Eiji Okawa”,
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Part 7 “Kizuna”, May 2017
Merriam, Ariel, Stanger-Ross, Jordan,
“Not at all prepared for winter: A family narrative of dispossession”, Blog post for The Champlain Society, June 21 2016
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Sugiman, Pamela,
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Adams, Eric, Madokoro, Laura
“Lessons from the Japanese-Canadian internments: Policies built on fear won’t make us safer”, Op-Ed Globe and Mail, January 19, 2016
Stanger-Ross, Jordan and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective Suspect Properties: The Vancouver Origins of the Forced Sale of Japanese-Canadian-owned Property, WWII* Journal of Planning History I-19 2016 *Contact Jordan Stanger-Ross jstross@uvic.ca for a copy of this publication.
Thatcher, J., Bergmann, L., Ricker, B., Rose-Redwood, R. (Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective), O’Sullivan, D., Barnes, T., Barnesmoore, et al.
“Revisiting Critical GIS, Environment & Planning A, first published online on December 23, 2015 as doi: 10.1177/0308518X15622208.
Stanger-Ross, Jordan
“Telling a Difficult Past: Kishizo Kimura’s Memoir of Entanglement in Racist Policy”, BC Studies, Spring 2014
Landscapes of Injustice Working Papers
Merriam, Ariel and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective, April 2016
Working Paper #1
Perry-Whittingham, Mike and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective, October 2016 Working Paper #2
“Negotiating Space”
Ishiguro, Laura, Yakashiro, Nicole, Archibald, Will & the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective, September 2017
Working Paper #3
Yakashiro, Nicole and the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective, January, 2018
Working Paper #4
Yakashiro, Nicole and the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective, March, 2018
Working Paper #5
Yakashiro, Nicole and the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective, July, 2018
Working Paper #6
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletters
LoI Newsletter Issue 20 Summer 2021
LoI Newsletter Issue 19 Spring 2021
LoI Newsletter Issue 18 Fall 2020
LoI Newsletter Issue 17 Summer 2020
LoI Newsletter Issue 16 Winter/Spring 2020
LoI Newsletter Issue 15 Fall 2019
LoI Newsletter Issue 14 Summer 2019
LoI Newsletter Issue 13 Spring 2019
LoI Newsletter Issue 12 Winter 2019
LoI Newsletter Issue 11 Fall 2018
LoI Newsletter Issue 10 Summer 2018
LoI Newsletter Issue 9 Spring 2018
LoI Newsletter Issue 8 Winter 2018
LoI Newsletter Issue 7 Fall 2017
LoI Newsletter Issue 6 Summer 2017
LoI Newsletter Issue 5 Spring 2017
LoI Newsletter Issue 4 Fall 2016
LoI Newsletter Issue 3 Spring/Summer 2016
LoI newsletter Issue 2 Fall/Winter 2015
LoI Newsletter Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2015
Landscapes of Injustice Videos
Tadaima! A Community Virtual Pilgrimage Project update July 27, 2020 Jordan Stanger-Ross and Michael Abe
Tadaima! A Community Virtual Pilgrimage Elder Panel July 26, 2020 with Mary Keiko Kitagawa and Dr. Akira Horii Moderated by Michael Abe
NAJC Chat Exploring Japanese Canadian Family History II May 31, 2020 with Lorene Oikawa, Reiko Pleau, Kate Michi Ettinger, Stacey Inouye and David Iwaasa Moderated by Michael Abe
NAJC Chat Exploring Japanese Canadian Family History I May 27, 2020 with Lorene Oikawa, Patti Kagawa and Laura Saimoto Moderated by Michael Abe
One minute video trailer for Museum Exhibit and Book Launch event produced by One Island Media.
Congratulations to Project Director Jordan Stanger-Ross on receiving the 2020 Provost’s Award for Community Engaged Scholar Video with Jordan and Community Council chair Vivian Rygnestad
Ideafest video in 2019 by Yasmin Railton to describe the campaign to commemorate the original site of Canada’s first Japanese Garden that disappeared due to the forced uprooting and internment of Japanese Canadians.
Ideafest video in 2018 by Michael Abe to highlight the research of the dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s.
Trevor Wideman and Landscapes of Injustice Research 2018 video by Filmmaker Kiyoshi Maguire talking to researcher Trevor Wideman and his research for Landscapes of Injustice on Eikichi Kagetsu
The Lost Fleet: Public lecture and presentation Jan.14, 2018 Vancouver Maritime Museum in association with the Lost Fleet Exhibition Jordan Stanger-Ross and Masako Fukawa
Memories of Dispossession and Internment Public Panel Jan. 14, 2017 Vancouver Public Library. Guest speakers, Jean Kamimura, Sam Yamamoto and Mary Kitagawa, moderated by Vivian Rygnestad and Michael Abe
Spring Institute 2016 Video – Video from Filmmaker Sean MacPherson provides insights from 3 project members, Art Miki, Eric Adams and Nicole Yakashiro on what this project means to them.
Forced Dispossession of the Japanese Canadians, 1940s –Video interview by students at the Universita’ di Bologna, Italy.
Landscapes of Injustice Media Coverage
- [podcast] Arshy Mann “Real Estate #3 – Terminal City” Jordan Stanger-Ross and Michael Abe Canadaland Commons podcast May 26, 2021
- [television] Melanie Nagy with Laura Saimoto, Michael Abe and Jordan Stanger-Ross CTV News May 23, 2021
- [documentary] Sun-Kyung Yi “Re:Location Japanese Internment” Canadian Geographic and Sound Venture Production for Cable Public Affairs Council May 14, 2021
- [television] Tracy Nagai “Japanese Canadians in Calgary voice concerns about Alberta draft curriculum” Global News April 18, 2021
- [web] Stephanie Harrington “Stories light a dark history” Uvic News University of Victoria March 29, 2021
- [web] Jennifer Kyffin “Canadians inherit a Landscape of Injustice” Community Research Snapshots University of Victoria February 26, 2021
- [podcast] Greg Marchildon with Jordan Stanger-Ross “New Perspectives on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians” Witness to Yesterday Apple Podcasts February 18, 2021
- [web] Tara Sharpe “Day in the Life: Michael Abe” The Ring University of Victoria January 7, 2021
- [radio] Rohit Joseph with Natsuki Abe “Why Journal 2020?” On the Island with Gregor Craigie December 23, 2020
- [web] [print] Jenny Manzer “Building bridges: Far from home” The Torch University of Victoria November 27, 2020
- [web] Jessica Hester “How Japanese Canadians Survived Internment and Dispossession: A new exhibit traces the experiences of seven narrators before, during, and after World War II” Atlas Obsura October 16, 2020
- [podcast] Samantha Cutrara “Source Saturday: “Letter of Protest” (1944) with Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross” Meaningful Learning with Samantha Cutrara October 3, 2020
- [print] “Exhibition Exposes Multi-Generational Trauma Caused by Dispossession of Japanese Canadians,” Vancouver Sun, October 2, 2020
- [web] Craig Takeuchi “Japanese Canadian internment exhibit Broken Promises to open in Burnaby before travelling across Canada” Georgia Strait September 28, 2020
- [radio] CBC Radio “On The Coast” Jordan and Sherri Kajiwara talk about the upcoming museum exhibit and launch September 25, 2020 Featured from 44:36 -53:57
- [radio] New UVic-led museum exhibit shines light on untold stories of Japanese-Canadian internment CBC Radio “All Points West” Michael and Natsuki Abe talk about how their family history has and hasn’t been passed down September 24, 2020
- [web] [print] Janelle Swift “PHOTOS: Gallery explores ‘broken promises’ during Japanese Canadian internment in the 1940s” Peace Arch News, trailtimes.ca, saanichnews.ca, westerlynews.ca September 24, 2020
- [web] [print] “National exhibit shares untold stories of Japanese Canadians” The Ring September 22, 2020
- [web] Paloma Martinez “Sécurité et COVID-19 : leçons à tirer de l’internement des Japonais canadiens” Radio Canada International, May 26, 2020
- [web] Scott Weston “Esquimalt considers recreating Japanese Tea Garden destroyed during WWII”, CTVnews.ca, September 24, 2019
- [web] “Vancouver Island residents seek to rebuild WWII era Japanese teahouse”, Ashley Moliere, CBC News, cbc.ca September 22, 2019
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross and Dillon Takata “Remembering a teahouse in Esquimalt”, On the Island with Gregor Craigie, CBC Radio Victoria, September 19, 2019 Radio interview embedded in article in link.
- [web] [print] Jenny Peng, “Seven decades after Japanese tea house was destroyed in BC, great-grandson wants the ‘powerful symbol’ rebuilt”, The Toronto Star, August 10, 2019
- [web] [print] “‘They were just gone’: presentation in Duncan on project delving into history of Japanese Canadians”, Cowichan Citizen, July 23, 2019
- [web] [print] Dan Furmano, “Reclaiming and redress highlight new conversation about historical wrongs”, Vancouver Sun, July 22, 2019
- [radio] Michael Abe, CBC Radio Yukon, with Dave White, May 6, 2019
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross, All Points West with Robyn Burns, CBC Radio Victoria, March 8, 2019
- [television] CHEK Television, Mar. 9, 2019
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross and Michael Abe, On the Island with Gregor Craigie, CBC Radio Victoria, January 23 2019
- [radio] Joe Perkins Show, Lost Fleet exhibit launch CFAX Radio January 9, 2019
- [radio] [web] Laura Madoko, “Les Canadiens d’origine japonaise, une histoire de dépossession et de déportation”, CBC Radio Internationale Pamela Martínez, December 30, 2018
- [print] [web] Stephanie Harrington, “Campaign to rebuild Japanese teahouse seeks to right historical wrong”, The Ring, September 2018
- [web] Richard Watts, “Righting a historical wrong, by rebuilding Japanese teahouse in Esquimalt”, timescolonist.com, August 26, 2018
- [print] Richard Watts, “Is it tea time in Gorge Park again? Looking to right a historical wrong”, Times Colonist, August 26, 2018
- [radio] Tsugio Kurushima, David Lenman CBC On The Island, August 21, 2018
- [radio] Tsugio Kurushima, Adam Sterling CFAX Radio, August 16, 2018
- [web] Stephanie Harrington, “Campaign to rebuild Japanese teahouse seeks to right historical wrong”, Uvic News uvic.ca, August 14, 2018
- [web] Jenny Peng, “Japanese-Canadian ‘crusader’ Mary Kitagawa appointed Order of BC”, Star Metro Vancouver, August 9, 2018
- [film] Michael Abe interviewed by Ken Galloway, Filmmaker, Japantown (28 May 2018)
- [print] “Stanger-Ross and Sugiman’s Witness to Loss shows how evil can be banal”, Globe and Mail, Feb. 22, 2018
- [print] Aya Takahashi, “Kimura Kishizo wo kataru”, Vancouver Shinpo, Vol. 40. Issue 3, January 18, 2018
- [web] Joan Bryden, “Trudeau makes apologies his father wouldn’t for historical injustices“, ipolitics.ca, November 28, 2017
- [television] NHK World Eyes News feature (in Japanese), December 2, 2017
- [television] NHK World Japanese Canadian Report feature (in English), December 2, 2017
- [television] NHK Ohayo Nippon News feature (in Japanese), December 2, 2017
- [television] NHK World Lounge News feature (in Japanese), December 2, 2017
- [web] Jordan Stanger-Ross,”Giving Light to Outrage from Betrayed Japanese Canadians“, The Tyee, November 28, 2017
- [web] Jordan Stanger-Ross, “300 letters of outrage from Japanese Canadians who lost their homes“, The Conversation, November 21, 2017
- [web] Tristin Hopper,”‘You know that we had nothing to do with this war’:Long lost letters from interned Japanese Canadian camps“, nationalpost.com, November 10, 2017
- [radio] Judy Hanazawa,“The story behind one man’s letter from inside a Japanese Canadian internment camp”, CBC As It Happens with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas, November 8, 2017
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross, Adam Stirling, CFAX 1070 Victoria, November 8, 2017
- [radio] Nathaniel Leigh, “300 letters from interned Japanese Canadians discovered“, BCIT evolution1079.com, November 8, 2017
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross, All Points West, CBC Radio Victoria, November 7, 2017
- [print] Dirk Meissner, Canadian Press, “Japanese internment letters convey betrayal at loss of house, heirlooms“, Times Colonist, November 8, 2017
- [web] Dirk Meissner, Canadian Press, “Researchers in Victoria discover archive of letters from Japanese internment camps“, Globe and Mail, November 7, 2017
- [print] Dirk Meissner, Canadian Press, “Japanese internment letters convey betrayal at loss of house, heirlooms“, The National Post, November 7, 2017
- [web] Stephanie Harrington, “Three hundred letters reveal personal stories of dispossession in the 1940s“, The Ring, November 6, 2017
- [web] “Japanese Canadian history remembered“, Burnaby Now, November 2, 2017
- [web] Norm Ibuki interview with Greg Miyanaga Part 2 Discover Nikkei (16 October 2017)
- [web]Norm Ibuki interview with Greg Miyanaga Part 1 Discover Nikkei (27 October 2017)
- [radio] Nicole Yakashiro on CBC’s All Points West with Robyn Burns, CBC Radio Victoria, April 27, 2017
- [web] Maryse Zeidler, “75th anniversary of Japanese-Canadian internment camps echoes as fear of Islamophobia rise“, Interview with Mary Kitagawa cbc.ca news, February 25, 2017
- [radio] Laura Madokoro, “Il y a 75 ans, un épisode honteux de l’histoire canadienne“, Radio-Canada.ca, February 24, 2017
- [radio] Vivian Rygnestad, “The Early Edition with Rick Cluff“, CBC Radio Vancouver, January 13, 2017 starts at 1:19:31
- [web] [print] Betty Shea, “Giving Voice to our History“, The Source Newspaper January 11, 2017
- [web] Norm Masaji Ibuki, “Landscapes of Injustice: A project aims to recover what really happened to Japanese Canadian owned property during the 1940s, Part 2” Discover Nikkei (27 December 2016)
- Norm Masaji Ibuki, “Landscapes of Injustice: A project aims to recover what really happened to Japanese Canadian owned property during the 1940s, Part 1” Discover Nikkei (26 December 2016)
- [web] Kirstie Hudson, “Heirlooms stolen from Japanese-Canadian family in 1943 back in BC“, cbc.ca, July 5, 2016
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross, “Joe Perkins on CFAX 1070“, (Guest host Mark Rennie), CFAX 1070 Victoria, June 30, 2016 Starts at the 17:37 mark.
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross and Sherri Kajiwara, CBC “On the Coast“, with Stephen Quinn, CBC Radio One, June 29, 2016 Starts at the 2:06 mark.
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross and Sherri Kajiwara, “Property stolen from Japanese-Canadian family in 1943 back in BC“, CBC All Points West with Robyn Burns, CBC Radio One, June 29, 2016
- [web] Tara Sharpe, “Acquisition of Japanese-Canadian heirlooms now part of $5.5M Landscapes of Injustice project“, The Ring, June 29, 2016
- [print] “BC researchers acquire historical collection of dispossessed Japanese Canadian lumber baron“, Metro News, June 29, 2016
- [print] Richard Watts, “Japanese-Canadians’ stolen history brought to light“, Times Colonist, June 29, 2016
- [print] Megan Dolski, “Research project to share stories of dispossessed Japanese Canadians“, Globe and Mail, June 29, 2016
- [web] “Property of Japanese Canadians Seized”, Vancouver Planning Chronology, February 2016
- [print] Tara Sharpe, “New findings on 1940s Vancouver properties”, The Ring, February 2016
- [web] Alyse Kotyk, “Researchers reveal City of Vancouver’s deeper involvement in forced sale of Japanese Canadian property“, rabble.ca, February 8, 2016
- [web] Tara Sharpe, “New findings sharpen view on Vancouver properties in 1940s”, The Ring, January 28, 2016
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross, Vancouver Co-op Radio, (23:20) January 28, 2016
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross, “More on forced sale of Japanese Canadians’ assets”, with Lynn Desjardins, CBC Radio Canada International, January 20, 2016
- [television] Jordan Stanger-Ross, Global TV, January 19, 2016
- [print] Craig Takeuchi, “Uvic researchers find Vancouver played larger role in Japanese Canadian wartime dispossession”, Georgia Strait, January 19, 2016
- [print] Sunny Dhillon, “Vancouver prompted WWII sell-off of Japanese-Canadian-owned-property”, Globe and Mail, January 19, 2016
- [print] Matt Kieltyka, “Uncovered documents reveal Vancouver’s role in historic sell-off of Japanese-Canadian property”, Metro Vancouver News, January 17, 2016
- [web] Jordan Stanger-Ross and Vivian Rygnestad, “City of Vancouver played role in stripping war-era Japanese Canadians of homes, says professor”, CBC.ca, January 18, 2016
- [web] Marie-Danielle Smith, “Echoes of mid-century xenophobia in Harper campaign, say historians”, embassynews.ca, October 14, 2015
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross, hourly news, CBC Victoria, January 17, 2016
- [television] Jordan Stanger-Ross and Vivian Rygnestad on CBC Vancouver News, January 16, 2016
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross on The Drive with Terry Moore, CFAX Victoria, October 5, 2015
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross and Vivian Rygnestad on On the Island with Gregor Craigie, CBC Radio Victoria, September 28, 2015
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross on On the Island with Gregor Craigie, CBC Radio Victoria, February 4, 2015
- [radio] Frances Benoit on On the Island with Gregor Craigie, CBC Radio Victoria, January 29, 2015
- [print] Matthew O’Mara, “Landscapes of Injustice Project Chasing Down JC Origins”, Nikkei Voice, November 4, 2014
- [blog] SFU Research News, “Landscapes of Injustice”, Research Matters Blog, September 15, 2014
- [television] Jordan Stanger-Ross interviewed as part of feature with Art Miki, “Internment of Japanese Canadians to be featured at Human Rights Museum”, CBC News, Winnipeg, September 17, 2014
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross and Masako Fukawa on On the Island with Gregor Craigie, CBC Radio Victoria, August 28, 2014
- [radio] Jordan Stanger-Ross on the Pamela McCall Show, (38:35 to 57:00) CFAX 1070 (Victoria), August 28, 2014
- [print] Tara Sharpe, “UVic to lead $5.5 million research project on forced dispossession of Japanese Canadians”, The Ring, August 28, 2014
- [print] Jeff Bell, “Project to Recall Japanese Canadian Injustice”, Times Colonist, August 27, 2014