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Takemitsu Takahashi
Takemitsu Takahashi came from Hokkaido, Japan on a working holiday visa. He has been in Vancouver for six months and is teaching Japanese to young students at Gladstone Japanese Language School. The school is located in the National Nikkei Heritage Centre in Burnaby, British Columbia. When Takemitsu was a university student, he studied the history of Japanese Americans. Now he feels very comfortable in Canada and learns that Japanese Canadians had to overcome many difficulties.
Mariko Kawasaki
Mariko Kawasaki is a student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and comes from Himeji, in Hyogo Prefecture near Kobe. She is majoring in psychology and business. She is 34 years old and has been in Canada for four and half years. She enjoys living in the East side where there are people from all over the world. “I’ve learned about so many different cultures, values, and views that it makes me realize that I had been quite naive when I was in Japan.” A difference that she noticed is that people in Canada seem to behave on their morals or own judgment whereas people in Japan behave completely dependent on the regulations or the rules. For her the greatest difficulties are to “make friends that she can share her feeling of academic anxiety and the frustration of the language difference”.
Mariko Kawasaki
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