title

 

Akira Iwasaki collection

 

general material designation

 

[sound recording]
extent

 

1 tape cassette

 

date

 

2003-2003

 

scope and content

 

The collection consists of a taped interview of Akira Iwasaki conducted by Miyoshi Tanaka and Minnie Hattori on July 9, 2003 in Burnaby, BC.

 

biography

 

Akira (Ben) Iwasaki was born in Yamaguchi Ken in Japan on September 9, 1906. He married Ina Fujie Omura on August 20, 1932 in Port Hammond, BC.

 


 

Akira & Ina were the parents of Lawrence Iwasaki, the famous hairdresser in Vancouver who had 5 salons called Maison Lawrence. And parents of Lynn (Iwasaki) Gardiner.

 

number

 

2013.26

 

organisation

 

Nikkei National Museum
access

 

Open