Politicians in British Columbia used the bombing of Pearl Harbor in World War II as an excuse to enact racist legislation which has been called "near ethnic cleansing".

[1] In the 1950s and 1970s Etobicoke, Scarborough, and other suburban areas in Greater Toronto received ethnic Japanese coming from western Canada.

Bruce Kuwabara and Associates had remodeled the building which the JCCC currently occupies; it moved into it in 1999.

[5] As of 1999 the Toronto Buddhist Church includes many "Kika nisei", Japanese who had been educated in Japan but had been born in British Columbia, Canada.

[5] The Nisshu Gakuin Japanese Language School (日修学院日本語学校) is located in Toronto.