CNHS - Asahi Baseball Team - Canadian National Historic Sites on Waymarking.com

The team was based in Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park—originally known as the Powell Street Grounds—in the city's Japantown. Matsujiro (Harry) Miyazaki, a Powell Street shop owner, was the team's first manager. The team's championships included the International League (1919), Terminal League (1926, 1930), and Burrard League (1938–1940). The team was disbanded when its members were dispersed across Canada due to the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II.

The team was designated an Event of National Historic Significance on August 26, 2008. The plaque honoring the team was unveiled in Oppenheimer Park on September 18, 2011, the 70th anniversary of the team's last game.

A 2003 documentary about the team, Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story, was directed by Jari Osborne. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the documentary combines archival film and dramatic recreations, along with interviews with the last of the Asahi.

On February 19, 2019, a Heritage Minute was released, depicting an Asahi baseball game and the subsequent internment of a player alongside other Japanese Canadians. The short segment was narrated by the last surviving member of the team, Koichi Kaye Kaminishi, and novelist Joy Kogawa.

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