Kaye Kaminishi is the last surviving member of the Vancouver Asahi, a Japanese Canadian baseball club. The team was disbanded 75 years ago today, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

After the attacks, the Canadian government responded by interning 21,000 Japanese Canadians. including every member of the Asahi. A Proud Benchwarmer is Kaye’s story.

A Proud Benchwarmer was produced by Sam Fenn, Gordon Katic, Alexander Kim, and Eli Yarhi for The Canadian Encyclopedia, a division of Historica Canada. Fact checking by Lawrence Pinsky. Special thanks to Jari Osborne for putting us in touch with Kaye Kaminishi.

You can read more about Kaye Kaminishi and the Vancouver Asahi on Historica’s website.

In the second half of the show, Gordon talks to Geoffrey White, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Hawai’i, about the politics of memory at Pearl Harbor. His ethnography of the site tells the story of how different stories compete for space in the public remembrance of the Second World War.

Across Canada, Mennonite-volunteers are helping high-risk sex-offenders reintegrate after they’re released from prison. Sam Fenn goes to Regina to meet a sex offender and the group of untrained volunteers who spend their free time with him.

Sex offenders are the most reviled and abused criminals in prison. But eventually, most of them will get out. So, what happens next?

This is part one of a two-part documentary series we produced in partnership with the CBC Doc Project and the University of Washington Center For Human Rights. On this episode, you’ll hear the story of Chris Dum, a doctoral student who rented a room in the The Boardwalk — upstate New York’s infamous ‘Sex Offender Motel.’

A quick note, Chris’ university ethics board made him change all the names in this research project, because the work is with a very vulnerable population. He used fake names for the motel, the people in the motel, and the city. We agreed to maintain this anonymity in order to tell this story.

Plus, the back half of this episode includes an interview with the University of Washington’s Katherine Beckett. We discuss how criminal justice policy and research has changed since the 1980s, and what a Trump presidency will mean for reform efforts.