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The Vancouver Asahi - Nikkei Stories

Produced by Orbit Films Inc. Narration by Samuel Araki http://www.nikkeistories.com This is a story of the legendary Vancouver Asahi baseball team. The Asahi was a Japanese Canadian baseball club in Vancouver (1914–42). One of the city’s most dominant amateur teams, the Asahi used skill and tactics to win multiple league titles in Vancouver and along the Northwest Coast. In 1942, the team was disbanded when its members were among more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians interned by the federal government. The Asahi were inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003 and the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. ===== The Powell Street area in Vancouver, BC, once a thriving community of over 8,000 Nikkei, was decimated during WW II and never returned to its pre-war heyday. Nikkei Stories of Powell Street reanimates the people, places, and events of what was the largest and most vibrant Japanese Canadian centre in Canada.