More than 70 years after racism and wartime hysteria devastated their community, Japanese Canadians are still fighting for justice.
They've launched a campaign called BC Redress with the aim of getting the British Columbia provincial government to formally acknowledge its role in the internment of their community during World War II.
About 22,000 Japanese Canadians — most of them Canadian citizens living in the country's westernmost province — were sent to internment camps in 1942 and had their property and businesses confiscated. The provincial legislature passed a motion of apology in 2012, but Japanese Canadians say that isn't enough.
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