With over 2,600 people and covering 1,200 acres, Tashme, the largest of 10 internment camps, was constructed on a farm site and operated from 1942 to 1946.

On September 2, Takei took an excursion to the Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum, located 23 kilometres (14 miles) southeast of Hope, B.C. Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum Craig Takeuchi This past week, he returned to Vancouver to hold a book-signing event at Indigo Books on Robson Street on September 3.īut the day before the book launch, he spent more time deepening his understanding of Japanese Canadian history by visiting the former site of a B.C. The memoir recounts his experiences of being relocated to a Japanese American internment camp. In this second season, entitled The Terror: Infamy, which premiered on August 12, the storyline is set during the Japanese American internment during the Second World War.ĭuring his time in Vancouver, he also went on a tour of the Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall and the former Japantown in the Downtown Eastside to learn more about Japanese Canadian history and he also attended Canada Post’s launch of a stamp commemorating the historic Vancouver Asahi baseball team.Īfter returning to the U.S., he launched his graphic novel They Called Us Enemy, on July 16.

In fact, the past few months have seen the 82-year-old launch new and particularly timely projects devoted to raising awareness about historical injustices in the hopes of changing both the present and the future.Įarlier this year, Takei, who rose to fame on the original Star Trek TV series, had spent time in Vancouver from January to May while filming the horror anthology TV series The Terror as a cast member and consultant. is repeating dark chapters of history that he sought to shed light on in order to prevent them from reoccurring. But to his dismay, he is deeply concerned that the U.S. Prominent American activist and Hollywood celebrity George Takei has devoted himself to raising awareness about social justice issues from LGBT rights to the Japanese-American internment.

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