Momiji celebrates its volunteers for National volunteer week
Enemy Lines: Artist Mayumi Lashbrook explores how fear can divide humanity
Revealing layers within: Miya Turnbull and Shion Skye Carter on cross-disciplinary collaboration
The exceptional ones: Grappling with use of Emergencies Act
Japonica goes digital: Momiji Health Care Society's innovative approach to fundraising
Artist Emmie Tsumura's Powell Street Festival poster design wins international communication award
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
31 Jul 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
The fast food giant's 3,000 restaurants have ceased using poultry and beef products from Shanghai-based Shanghai Husi Foods after it was was shut down for unsanitary practices. According to reports, McDonald's stopped shipments from the company due to allegations that the company was shipping...
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31 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
That's pretty surprising, isn't it? But according to the Japanese musician who has lived in Toronto for over 20 years, performing has just become part of his daily routine. "I came to Toronto first on a working visa just to experience music abroad and I have met so many people after joining...
Read more → 30 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
Theodore Van Kirk was the navigator of the plane alongside commander Paul Tibbets, co-pilot Rober Lewis, and bombardier Thomas Ferebee, and seven other crew members. Van Kirk died of natural causes in a retirement home in Georgia his son, Tom Van Kirk, told the Associated Press. “I know he was recognized...
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Posted by Luke Galati The film follows the lives of five people who are half Japanese, or ‘hafu’, living in Japan and shows the experiences that come with being mixed race in Japan’s homogeneous society. If the standing ovation wasn't enough of an indication, the movie was received tremendously well by the audience...
Read more → 28 Jul 2014
Posted by Cassandra Kobayashi 
A Tale for the Time Being moves across time and continents, exploring themes of life and death, through an ancient Zen Buddhist nun, a kamikaze's secret letters, a teen suicide, and the terrible 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Yet I did not find the book morbid, perhaps because I listened...
Read more → 24 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
When speaking with Kimura, 87, listening to him reflect back on his life, it's no wonder why he wrote an autobiography called, The Life of One Cherry Charlie: Philosopher, Poet and Pool Player, which was released Oct. 30, 2013. During World War Two, Kimura's family was forced to leave Vancouver....
Read more → 22 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Sugiyama, who's a Sansei, will be recognized, “for her achievements as a lawyer and for her extensive civic engagement.” The Order of Canada is one of the nation’s highest honours, meant to recognize outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. “We’re...
Read more → 21 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
UBC has offered to pay for Sugiyama and a guest’s flight, while letting him stay at the university, where he will fulfil his official enrolment in the school’s new Asian Canadian Studies program as an honoured guest. During his visit, he will be a registered student at UBC, where he was unable...
Read more → 20 Jul 2014
Posted by Diana Duong 
The 13th annual contest received 162 entries from Canada this year and a total of 18,614 entries worldwide from 33 different countries. It is open to children aged 15 and under, and all languages. Timothy Takasaki and Leo Park, both aged six, were introduced to the haiku contest while at Kamp Kodomo...
Read more → 19 Jul 2014
Posted by James Heron 
For most of us, British filmmaker Philip Cox and Hikaru Toda‘s charming and deliciously quirky documentary Love Hotel will come as a refreshing antidote: a deeply humane look at sexual need and frailty and a rare insight into a uniquely Japanese cultural phenomenon. In a society with long working...
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