Japanese Descent: Joy Kogawa and Internment Camps

japanese descent: Unfortunately, during the Second World War, that same house saw its confiscation from the Kogawa family by the Canadian government, according to Rabble. A similar fate awaited other houses, properties, boats and farms belonging to Japanese Canadians after the Pearl Harbour attack. It is a privilege to be in a place that saw some of the childhood years of one of the most important literary figures in Canada, the poet and novelist of Japanese descent, Joy Kogawa. Joy Kogawa and her family, along with 22,000 Canadian Japanese, were banned from living anywhere within 100 miles of the Pacific Coast and were forcibly sent to internment camps throughout B.C. and other parts of Canada. That decision, which by today's standards seems arbitrary and unfair, was actually perfectly legal -- approved by Canada's Parliament, the country's main newspapers and a majority of Canadians. In the case of Joy Kogawa and her family, they were interned in the small town of Slocan, in the Kootenays. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.