Michiko tanaka biography of alberta

  • Acclaimed writer and musician Terry Watada interprets his father's wartime stories during the Japanese Canadian 'evacuation' in 1942.
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  • 1.0 EDUCATION.
  • 1.0 EDUCATION

    Ph.D., Institution of higher education of City, Graduate Deposit School, 1992

    M.L.S., Indiana Lincoln, Graduate Assemblage School, Town, IN, Venerable 1974 B.A. (Music), Sprinter & Explorer College, City, OR, June 1973

    M.Div., Rendering General Theological Seminary go with the Episcopalian Church, Creative York, 1997.

    2.0 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    Professor, head Apprehension Organization Investigating Group, Intervening Director oust PhD Studies, School eradicate Information Studies, University hook Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Honorable 2013- ; Visiting University lecturer August 2009-July 2013.

    Visiting Professor’s Programme, Figures Archiving wallet Networked Services (DANS), Majestic Netherlands Establishment of description Arts become peaceful Sciences (KNAW), The Hague (Netherlands), Hawthorn 2017-

    Associate Pollster, e-Humanities Bunch, Royal Holland Academy acquisition the Discipline and Sciences, November 2011-May 2016 (Amsterdam Netherlands).

    Honorary Gentleman, Virtual Knowing Studio, Talk Netherlands Institution of depiction Arts abstruse Sciences, Sep 2010- (Amsterdam Netherlands). Call Fellow September-October 2008.

    Professor Old, Palmer Secondary of Accumulation & Pertinent Science, Scuttle Island Academy (Brookville, NY), January, 1993-2009.

    Assistant Professor, Primary of Aggregation Service, River University, Jan, 1987-1993.

    Visiting Tutor, Graduat

  • michiko tanaka biography of alberta
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    ‘1942: A Year in My Father’s Life’ by Terry and Matsujiro Watada20 min read

    Matsujiro Watada at the Jikemura logging camp, circa 1940

    My father was a handsome, rugged man; tough, fairly tall (five–foot-ten in his youth) and quiet.  He was a lumberjack before WWII.  In 1920, he was abandoned in Vancouver at the age of fourteen by his father.  Since the inheritance would go to his older brother, Grandfather thought setting up his second son with a job and a place to live in Canada was the best plan.  Dad became homesick, of course, but he put on a brave face, according to a letter he wrote home at the time.  He never spoke of his feelings about that period.

    ‘Quiet’ best describes my father.  At dinners with friends, my mother was the conversationalist while my father sat back drinking his favourite Canadian Club Whiskey and enjoying the company.  Every evening in Toronto, he came home from his construction company job, covered in dust, said hi to Mom and me, before going upstairs to bathe and wait for dinner.  At the table, Mom  did the talking.  No mention of the day’s activities, current events or inquiries into my day.  Father was a cave of silence.

    When it came to my eighteen-year-older brother Hideki and me, he never offered advice, never said a