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Edy Goto was born in Toronto and completed a Bachelor’s degree in film at York University. While staying in Japan on a student exchange program in 1973, her interest in the intersection of Japanese Canadian and Japanese cultures broadened.
The focus of her work was on the Japanese Canadian community and issues of racism. In 1976, she joined the Japanese Canadian Centennial Society as the general secretary and subsequently joined the Annex, which made Japanese Canadian information, discussion, and art available to the community.
Edy created Kodomo no Tame in the 1980s, a playgroup for Japanese Canadian preschoolers and their families. The program was formed in reaction after community elders advised that it wasn’t necessary or important to teach Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese Canadians, about Japanese culture. Edy disagreed and felt a need to inspire children about what it meant to be Japanese Canadian.
Later, Edy became a lawyer and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1994. Her interest in her practice is in the areas of human rights and family law.
Together with her husband, they attended several Sodan Kai meetings during the early days of the redress movement. The couple raised two children together.
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Created by Alston So, March 2026.