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Tatsuo Kage
Tatsuo Kage grew up in Tokyo where he experienced WWII as an elementary school student. He studied European history at the University of Tokyo and continued his graduate study in Germany. As a professor he taught Political and Diplomatic History at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo and other universities in the Tokyo area, as well. In 1975, he immigrated to Canada and worked ten years as a bilingual Counsellor at MOSAIC, a multicultural immigrant and refugee settlement service agency in Vancouver. In the 1980's, he participated in the Redress movement for Japanese Canadians. Soon after the Redress Settlement, he was hired as the Coordinator assisting Redress applicants in BC and Japan through the NAJC Redress Implementation Program. He was director on the NAJC Executive and the chairperson of Immigration Committee and Human Rights Committee. In the 1990’s, he continued human rights work supporting redress for WWII victims. His research work on
Exiled Japanese Canadians after the end of WW II was published in 1998 in Tokyo. He participated in the writing ofA Resource Guides for Teachers: Human Rights in the Asia Pacific War (1931-1945),
published in 2001 by the BC Ministry of Education.
Currently he is the Vice-President of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Immigrants’ Association and a member of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens' Association (JCCA) Human Rights Committee. He is a recipient of various awards including the NAJC Merit Award.
Tatsuo Kage
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Tatsuo Kage (left), a member of the
Canadian delegation in Japan on
Redress 1989.
(photo: Harry Yonekura)
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