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as an excuse to enact racist legislation which has been called "near ethnic cleansing". The population of Japanese Canadian individuals in Toronto increased to 5,000 by 1947. In the 1950s and 1970s
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Two silk workers, Kenji Ishikawa and Shigesaburo Ubukata, appeared in the City of Toronto Directory in 1897; they were the first persons of Japanese heritage to appear in this directory.
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By 2013, there had been an increase in the number of Japanese nationals in Toronto, particularly young people there on working holiday visa wishing to work or live in Canada.
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The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC) holds Japanese cultural classes, contains a library of Japanese-Canadian and Japanese materials, and includes a gift shop.
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Other institutions include the Canada Japan Society (日加協会), the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society, and the New Japanese Canadian Association (NJCA).
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and Associates had remodeled the building which the JCCC currently occupies; it moved into it in 1999. It was originally established in 1967.
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The Toronto Japanese Language School is also in the area. Previously the institution used the Orde Street Junior School of the
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and also one of Japanese nationals. As of 2010 there are about 20,000 Japanese Canadians in Toronto. Adam McDowell of the
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stated that Toronto's Japanese community was "never very large compared to, say, the Chinese or Italian communities".
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There were only six Japanese families in Toronto until 1941, when Japanese Canadians were forcibly uprooted from the
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includes many "Kika nisei", Japanese who had been educated in Japan but had been born in British Columbia, Canada.
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In the early 1990s, of the Japanese Canadians in Toronto, about 20–25% were
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As of 1999, of the Canadian cities, Toronto had the largest number of pure
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Exodus from the East: Wave of Japanese youth finding its way to Toronto
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Many Petals of the Lotus: Five Asian Buddhist Communities in Toronto
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Since the mid-2010s, Toronto has a Little Japan, which was formerly
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George Tanaka (civil rights activist and landscape artist)
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Toronto Japanese Association of Commerce and Industry
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received ethnic Japanese coming from western Canada.
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Index

Ethnicity in Toronto
Aboriginals
Black
Cambodians
Chinese
Filipinos
French
Greeks
South Asians
Italians
Japanese
Jews
Vietnamese
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Japanese Canadians
National Post
the city's first Chinatown
Pacific Coast
World War II
Etobicoke
Scarborough
Greater Toronto

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