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Renewal - Ken Adachi (1928 - 1989)
Born in Vancouver, Ken Adachi spent his childhood in Vancouver and his mid-teens in an internment camp in the interior of British Columbia. In 1959, the NJCCA commissioned Ken Adachi to write the history of Japanese Canadians because it was felt that a Japanese Canadian would be able to capture the true meaning of the Japanese Canadian experience. Published in 1976, The Enemy That Never Was, became the most comprehensive history of Japanese Canadians ever written and opened the eyes of Japanese Canadians to their own past. “It should be told from the inside, a history as seen and remembered by the people who have shared the experience.” (The Stories from my People by Roy Ito, page 432) Ken was a former editor of the New Canadian and was a book columnist for The Toronto Star.
Ken Adachi
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