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Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief and enlightening interviews. In the sixteenth episode, join us for a conversation between Stan Kirk, researcher and writer of Japanese Canadian history, with guest host Masumi Izumi, professor of North American Studies at Doshisha University. Hear from Stan about his research into Japanese Canadians who were exiled to Japan at the end of World War II.
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Stan Kirk
Stan Kirk grew up in rural Alberta and graduated from the University of Calgary. He now lives in Ashiya City, Japan with his wife Masako and son Takayuki Donald. Presently he teaches English at the Institute for Language and Culture at Konan University in Kobe, and he is researching and writing the life histories of Japanese Canadians who were exiled to Japan at the end of World War II.
Masumi Izumi
Masumi Izumi is a professor of North American Studies at Doshisha University and a historian of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians whose work reinterprets notions such as “citizenship” and “nationalism” from a transnational perspective of Japanese diaspora populations. She has written extensively about Japanese American and Japanese Canadian World War II incarceration and postwar community building efforts.