Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians

When the federal government uprooted and interned Japanese Canadians en masse in 1942, Kishizo Kimura saw his life upended along with tens of thousands of others. But his story is also unique: as a member of two controversial committees that oversaw the forced sale of the property of Japanese Canadians in Vancouver during the Second World War, Kimura participated in the dispossession of his own community.

In Witness to Loss Kimura’s previously unknown memoir - written in the last years of hi...