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Shuzaburo Kawakami
	
Shuzaburo Kawakami came to Dawson in 1901 when his brother, [Yasutaro], returned to the territory from Japan with his new bride. He and Yasutaro were fluent in English, and Shuzaburo managed to read the entire //Encyclopaedia Britannica// by 1923. In 1910, Shuzaburo was the proprietor of the Japanese Bazaar in Dawson, a business started by his brother. He sold novelties, glass and china, fine silks, clothing, and post cards.((Michael Gates, “The rising sun in the land of the midnight sun.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 1 February 2018.))  
	
In 1913, Shuzaburo wrote an article for the //Dawson Daily News// to report that at the time there were ninety Japanese people living in the territory: eighty-one men, five women, and four children. They were operating hotels, stores, restaurants, bath houses and a machine shop. He concluded that racial discrimination and prejudice, common on the Pacific seaboard, was unknown in the Yukon.((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 2013 in Ed and Star Jones, “Asians in Yukon.” Santa Fe, New Mexico, Unpublished manuscript, June 2010.))
	
In 1931, Shuzaburo launched a campaign against mail order shopping.((Michael Gates, “The rising sun in the land of the midnight sun.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 1 February 2018.)) In early July 1935, he was taken to St. Mary's Hospital suffering from paralysis and loss of memory.  (("Shuzeburo Kawakami well known merchant, striken, paralysis." //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 6 July 1935.)) Later in July, some took advantage of Kawakami’s illness to ransack the shelves of the Japanese Bazaar store. (("Japanese Bazaar robbed during the night." //Dawson News// (Dawson), 23 July 1935.)) He recovered from the stroke and continued running the store until 1940.((Michael Gates, “The rising sun in the land of the midnight sun.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 1 February 2018.)) The store held a closing sale in October of that year.(("Closing out sale." //Dawson News// (Dawson), 3 October 1940.)) 
	
Kawakami became a naturalized Canadian in Vancouver in 1941.((Michael Gates, “The rising sun in the land of the midnight sun.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 1 February 2018.)) It is unknown why he waited this long to apply. The following Yukon Japanese men applied for naturalization in 1911: Fred Harramura (cook), Kisuke Kamada (cook), Ihinzo Kilamura (waiter), Uniji Oinuma (cook), Fiein Sata (cook), Kijiro Tsuji (miner), and Herokichi Tabasaki. ((//Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 21 October 1911 in Ed and Star Jones, “Asians in Yukon.” Santa Fe, New Mexico, Unpublished manuscript, June 2010.))