Japanese school's building in Canada named nat'l historic site

NEW YORK - A building in Vancouver housing Canada's oldest Japanese-language school has been designated by the government as a national historic site.A ceremony was held Wednesday at the Art Deco building, now called the Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall, which was opened in 1906 in an area later known as Japantown where early Japanese pioneers to Canada began to settle and work from the late 19th century.The school was originally established to teach Japanese to the children of the expanding community of Japanese immigrants. First opened in a different location in Japant…READ FULL ARTICLE