The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre's 10th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival (TJFF) will be presented in a hybrid format from June 5 to 27,...
I'm listening to the My Sisters Knows Why podcast, where Ang and Claud are talking about mochi and its relationship to Japanese Canadian traditions and culture, before moving on to obon, and then the Japanese Canadian picnic at the Toronto Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.
Chiru Sakura, a Mother and Daughter's Journey by Grace Eiko Thomson
One day a number of years ago, while Grace Eiko Thomson was visiting her 84-year-old mother in the care home where she was living,...
Keirokai 2021 Part II
The cancellation of the 2021JCCA Keirokai, normally held at the beginning of the year, means we are unable to honour our seniors in person...
Keirokai 2021
Keirokai 2021: Honouring Our Elders The cancellation of the 2021 JCCA Keirokai, normally held at the beginning of the year, means we are unable...
Terry Watada: On Dreams, Mystery, and Writing What You Know
Mysterious Dreams of the Dead, Terry Watada's latest novel, features Mike Shintani, a sansei (third-generation Japanese Canadian) who sets off to uncover the mystery...
Commmunity / Headline
Kyowakai: Memory and Healing in New Denver, BC
Japanese Canadians began to arrive in New Denver on May 21, 1942, part of a wave of 22,000 internees forced out of a 100-mile...
Focus on JC Books + JC Writers
With the holiday season and gift giving just around the corner in this most unusual of times, we present a selection of new and...
I was honoured to serve as guest host for On Memory, Mythmaking, and Community Resilience. The theme of the session emerged out of recent work I have been doing and conversations I have been having.
On March 11, 2011, Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake that caused extensive damage to the Great Eastern region. The ensuing tsunami swallowed...
The second session of the Paueru Gai Dialogues was held online on Saturday, February 27, 2021. On Food & Culture for Community Building was...
art from here and away: Bryce Kanbara
I think mythologies are fundamental and vital to the story of a people. They're like a river with countervailing currents of cohesion, division, hope,...
Paueru Gai Dialogues – reflections
The Paueru Gai Dialogues – take one On Saturday, January 30, 2021 the year-long Paueru Gai Dialogues kicked off with Catalyzing Social Equity through...
As if They Were the Enemy: The Dispossession of Japanese Canadians on Saltspring Island
On 22 April 1942, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) ship the SS Princess Mary was docked at the wharf in Ganges on Saltspring Island....
The Paueru Gai Dialogues
The Paueru Gai Dialogues Catalyzing Social Equity through Culture & Connection to Place To kick off the new year, the Powell Street Festival Society is launching an...
Excerpt: Mysterious Dreams of the Dead
Mysterious Dreams of the Dead Terry Watada Anvil Press Excerpt 1987 One of those rootless, forgotten nights. I leaned against the giving rail of...
A Totem Pole for Mio
Sammy Takahashi, president of the Japan-Canada Chamber of Commerce, was shopping at the Save-On-Foods on Marine Drive near his home in North Vancouver when...
Remembrance Day 2020: 100 years of memories
by Linda Kawamoto Reid One hundred years of people gathering at the cenotaph conjures up so many images, stories, emotions, and memories of tribute....
Migration, Displacement, and Redress: A Japanese Canadian Perspective
Migration, Displacement, and Redress: A Japanese Canadian Perspective by Tatsuo Kage Electromagnetic Print (2020), electromagneticprint.com/tatsuo-kage $25.00 CAD Book Review by Angela May (née Kruger) Tatsuo...
Plowing My Parents' Landscape of Conscience
From the 1990s, my parents' home became a meeting place and a regular lodging for various members of the Líl'wat Nation and many other indigenous leaders and representatives. My mother, a retired social worker, befriended many of these activists.
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Editorial / Nihongo
編集後記 2020年7月
Meets / Nihongo
MEETS: MUJI シニアストアマネージャー 二ノ宮 裕輔
MEETS: ヘア・メイクアップアーティスト&ロックンローラー Yuri Ishii
MEETS: バンクーバー新報社主 津田 佐江子
Are you Japanese Canadian? How do you know?
"You know you're Japanese Canadian if . . . Some of your...more