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From a Moose Jaw railway worker to a cafe owner to a suspected spy: this man's family never knew the truth

Naka Nakane's family didn't know his history or that they were Japanese

CBC NewsShane Fraser

Robbi Kane still remembers visiting her father Philip Kane's high school in Washington State in the 1990s, and cracking open a yearbook to find his name. 

"All of a sudden, I'm looking through the yearbook and I see this guy that looks like my uncle and my dad, and it said 'Philip Nakane,'" said Kane. "I was just shocked." 

She wondered if 'Nakane' was an Indigenous name, as she knew her father came from Canada and had the dark hair and dark eyes that she inherited. 

Then she recalled the shape of…

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From a Moose Jaw railway worker to a cafe owner to a suspected spy: this man's family never knew the truth

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