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Article chronicling haiku in Japanese internment camp near Hope wins award

Jacqueline Pearce and Jean-Pierre Antonio received the BC Historical Federation Best Article Award on Saturday for their story about translating haiku written in the Tashme internment camp.

Tashme Haiku Club’s work was preserved and recently translated, authors write

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