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Episode 10 - A Game with No Players
Japan is well-known for being a place where many talented baseball players have come from. Prior to World War II, a team in Vancouver named the "Asahi" would bring a unique flavour of the game wherein instead of brawn they'd use brains.
However, due to the racist and unnecessary actions of the Canadian government during Second World War, these players alongside other Japanese-Canadians would find themselves subjected to mistreatment and interned in camps until the conclusion of the war, with further discrimination following suit.
This is unfortunately not a light-hearted episode.
This episode's news:
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/here-s-what-happens-to-rejected-halifax-bridge-coins-1.6969473
Heritage Minute:
https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/vancouver-asahi
Sleeping Tigers by the NFB:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBWg4zxTkQ
We now have a Patreon!
https://patreon.com/shawiniganmoments
Shawinigan Moments is written and recorded on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō (Stolo), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) first nations in what is otherwise called Vancouver.
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Japan is well-known for being a place where many talented baseball players have come from. Prior to World War II, a team in Vancouver named the "Asahi" would bring a unique flavour of the game wherein instead of brawn they'd use brains.
However, due to the racist and unnecessary actions of the Canadian government during Second World War, these players alongside other Japanese-Canadians would find themselves subjected to mistreatment and interned in camps until the conclusion of the war, with further discrimination following suit.
This is unfortunately not a light-hearted episode.
This episode's news:
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/here-s-what-happens-to-rejected-halifax-bridge-coins-1.6969473
Heritage Minute:
https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/vancouver-asahi
Sleeping Tigers by the NFB:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBWg4zxTkQ
We now have a Patreon!
https://patreon.com/shawiniganmoments
Shawinigan Moments is written and recorded on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō (Stolo), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) first nations in what is otherwise called Vancouver.