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
12 Jun 2017
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Years worth of drama bubble over in this Japanese film about family. Photo courtesy: TJFF And that's exactly what happens when Shuzo Hirata's (Isao Hashizume) wife asks for a divorce... as a 50th anniversary present. The bombshell request sends the family, who mostly live under the same roof,...
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02 Aug 2016
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"We are genki," says Sarah Campeau, a Japan English Teacher (JET) who will soon be teaching in Nara-ken, Japan. Campeau is part of a group of 185 JETs leaving Canada this year to participate in the program. Over 185 Canadian JETs will be travelling to the country this year, joining over 1800 teachers...
Read more → 19 Jul 2016
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The Ninja Bowl (regular $10.95 and large size $12.95) is packed with salmon, edamame, green onions, wasabi peas, and spicy mayo, but beware the size of the bowl. Photo by: Diana Duong The Poké Bowl is the latest food trend hitting Toronto's local foodies and it has nothing to do with the exceptionally...
Read more → 18 Jun 2016
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It might take more than a few businesses like Tsujiri Matcha Cafe to make a true downtown Japan Town. Photo by: Scott Kawaguchi Over the last few years, the intersection has seen an explosion of Japanese businesses from sushi restaurants to the city's only maid cafe, which was featured in our previous...
Read more → 14 Jun 2016
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Santaro J. Ono will stepping into the role as UBC's president and replacing Dr. Arvind Gupta who resigned from the university last summer. Photo courtesy: UBC/Flickr Ono is first person of Japanese descent to hold the role and, according to a profile on the university's website, the posting is a welcome...
Read more → 11 Jun 2016
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Colin Okashimo has worked in Singapore for over 30 years, but his firm has offices all around the world and could be looking to Toronto soon. Photo courtesy CKOA “Whether I could find the right collaborating firm to support me is a big thing,” Okashimo told Nikkei Voice in an interview about...
Read more → 07 Jun 2016
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At the start of July Pamela Sugiman will become Ryerson's new Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and she's looking forward to it. Photo courtesy: Pamela Sugiman Sugiman joined the university in 2006 and became chair of the Sociology Department in 2012. Previous to that she held a tenure-stream position...
Read more → 20 May 2016
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Tatsumi, left, who plays Josh, and Shingo Usami, who plays Kenji, have to reconcile their differences to keep their family together in 'Riceballs'. Photo courtesy: TIFF The short film shows the struggles of both characters in the wake of a family member's death. His son misses his mother and his father...
Read more → 10 May 2016
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Jai West plays Mak, a mysterious driver and worker, in The People Garden alongside Pamela Anderson. Sweetpea (Hemingway) goes to Japan in order to break up with Jamie, her rock star boyfriend, only to find that he's gone missing in a mysterious forest while shooting a music video. Mak (West) is sent...
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Hiroshima, pictured here, and Nagasaki were both attacked with nuclear weapons causing an estimated death toll of 220,000 people. President Obama will be joined by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the May 27 visit that is meant to highlight the countries' continued commitment to pursue world...
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