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Roy Miki
Roy Miki was born in Manitoba in1942, six months after his parents had been uprooted from their home in Haney, B.C., and sent to work on a sugar beet farm in Ste. Agathe, Manitoba. Miki was one of the leading figures in the redress movement, chair of the Greater Vancouver JCCA Redress Committee and a member of the NAJC negotiation team.
A poet, editor and writer, Dr. Miki is well-known literary figure in Canada. He has published a number of books, including Justice in our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress (1991), co-authored with Cassandra Kobayashi, Surrender(2001), which received the 2002 Governor General’s Award for poetry and his latest book, Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (2004). He has edited This is my Own, Letters to Wes & Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941-1948(1985) and Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka (1997),. Miki lives in Vancouver and teaches at Simon Fraser University.
Roy reading poetry at an Asian
Heritage Month event in Winnipeg.
(photo: Art Miki)
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Roy Miki, Maryka Omatsu and
Cassandra Kobayashi meeting Prime
Minister Mulroney at signing ceremony 1988.
(photo: Government of Canada)
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Cover of his latest book.
(photo: NAJC)
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