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SJCTM - 3 - Picture Brides
Picture brides were the early twentieth-century's version of extreme online dating. Japanese men living in Canada would exchange pictures with a Japanese woman back in Japan. Once a match was struck, the woman would marry the man by proxy in Japan and then sail to Canada to meet her husband for the very first time. Talk about intense.
Produced and Hosted by Raymond Nakamura and Alexis Jensen (who in the future will endeavour to say 'like' and 'so' less)
Music by Aiko Saita
Sources
Ayukawa, Michiko Midge. "Good Wives and Wise Mothers: Japanese Picture Brides in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia,"
BC Studies: Women's History and Gender Studies (Spring/Summer 1995), p: 103-118.
Ayukawa, Michiko Midge. "Neither Wataridori Nor Dekasegi: Early Japanese Women Building New Lives in Canada, "
Japan in Focus. New York: Captus Press, 1994, p: 267-274.
Ito, Roy. Stories of My People: A Japanese Canadian Journal. Hamilton: S-20 and Nisei Veterans Assocation, 1994.
Makabe, Tomoko, (translated by Kathleen Chisato Merken). Picture Brides in Canada. Ontario: Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario, 1990.
Nakayama, Gordon G. Issei: Stories of Japanese Canadian Pioneers. Toronto: NC Press, 1984.