Lessons from history: Art Miki’s journey toward justice

Thirty-seven years have now passed since the announcement of the Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement. It is easy for past events to fade into obscurity yet this history must be passed on to the next generation.
In 1988, then-prime minister Brian Mulroney, pictured in Ottawa in 2019, and Art Miki, then-president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians, confronted difficult circumstances, overcame them, and achieved a redress agreement that helped build a more just society, writes Kanji Yamanouchi, Japan's ambassador to Canada.

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