Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Roy Matsui at Angler
Shapes in Between: New retrospective of artist Norman Takeuchi at the Ottawa Art Gallery
Finding Forgiveness: Director Stafford Arima on bringing the award-winning memoir to the stage
Plan 75 finds slivers of light in the darkness
Mindfulness in the city: The language of love
Landscapes of Injustice receives top research award
Mindfulness in the city: Cabbage rolls for comfort
Artists Annie Sumi and Brian Kobayakawa explore family history, identity, and culture through music
Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Shuichi Kusaka Memorial Fund Brochure
Behind the mask: Multi-disciplinary artist Miya Turnbull's Inward, Outwards
09 Jun 2014
Posted by Luke Galati Shari Nihei Fredrickson, the mother of a six-year-old from San Francisco, sure hopes so. Before her son Baylor Fredrickson was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, a rare form of the disease, he played on a little league baseball team playing back catcher. His little league baseball coach...
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09 Jun 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Not only can he identify Woodstock brand chimes just by looking at them, he can tell the difference just by hearing them. It’s a skill that makes him special, a savant as some would say. “It started when he was about 3-years-old, I guess having autism kids take interest in what you could...
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Posted by nikkeistaff 
Nakanishi is a professor of urban and regional planning at University of Canberra, and she recently worked with the Junposha Co. to translate the book Surviving the 2011 Tsunami: 100 Testimonies of Ishinomaki Area Survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake. She wanted to translate the book...
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Posted by nikkeistaff 
Nowadays yakitori, bite-sized Japanese food (usually chicken) on a stick and seared, is as well known abroad as ramen. Japanese restaurant Kinton is a familiar sight to Canadians who are not only curious about Japanese food, but also wanting to break into it. Kinton opened a new restaurant of that...
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Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
A group attended the ceremony among them was architect Raymond Moriyama and representatives from the 75 Japanese Canadian families who helped build the original Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. The new heritage centre is a hands-on space where people are able to learn not only about the Japanese...
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Posted by Dwight Wakabayashi 
New teams occupy the top spots in the standings so far this year as the expansion Bean Sprouts have shot out of the gate undefeated with a 4-0-1 record after their first five games of play. The Sprouts currently sit in first place and have had very solid starting pitching to go along with aggressive...
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Posted by nikkeistaff 
Surprisingly, most of audience was Canadian and other nationalities. As ONE OK ROCK concert was mostly Japanese, I thought Next Music From Tokyo volume six would be the same. Even though in Toronto, I could find some Japanese while I was taking pictures, didn’t see any Japanese during event in Montreal....
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Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
When Ralph MacLean traded his quiet, yet troubled, life on the Magdelene Islands for the ravages of war, he never thought he’d fight from the confines of a prisoner of war camp. In 1941, he would be transported on a Japanese Hell ship from Hong Kong to Japan where he would live life on the very...
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