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Remembering the Japanese Canadians of Ucluelet
New road in Don Mills named in architect Raymond Moriyama's honour
Living with COVID: To mask or not to mask?
Actor Hiro Kanagawa on exploring Japanese Canadian identity in R. A. Shiomi's "Yellow Fever"
Mindfulness in the city: Planting seed of love
Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Kinori Oka’s Tanka Poem
Curator Samantha Kuniko Marsh explores culture, identity, and family through Dr. Henry Shimizu's art
Frankly Speaking: Eighty years ago the world changed for Japanese Canadians
05 Dec 2013
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
By Matthew O'Mara Whether you're an amateur or master chef, a sharp knife is one of the essential tools you need to cook. A good knife, however, isn't something we all think about on a day to day basis. While we use these tools all of the time from eating food to cutting open packaging, that rusty...
Read more → 03 Dec 2013
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
By Matthew O'Mara November was a great month for Nikkei Voice online and in print, and over at our Facebook page we've been providing some pretty interesting links to our readers. However, we're breaching out and making sure our readers here at www.nikkeivoice.ca have a chance to take a read of all of the interesting...
Read more → 28 Nov 2013
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
By Matthew O'Mara Japanese curry is perhaps one of the oddest tasting delicacies in the world. From spicy to sweet, Japan's take on the Indian and English dish has taken on an eclectic culinary life with different recipes calling for new and exciting ingredients, and then they take on some interesting...
Read more → 26 Nov 2013
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By Matthew O'Mara On Saturday, a reception was held to honour Order of Canada recipient and playwright Toyoshi Yoshihara, for his works and for his translations of North American plays for Japanese audiences. Inside the small theatre at Wychwood Barns near to Christie Station in Toronto, Yoshihara...
Read more → 14 Nov 2013
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By Matthew O'Mara Video games are often the first thing people think of when hearing about Japan. As the birthplace of video game and technology giants like SEGA, Nintendo, Neo Geo, and Sony, Japan is home to hundreds of developers, visionaries, and artists who have pushed video games further than...
Read more → 13 Nov 2013
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Any questions about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford were duly ignored last night, as Toronto Police and Toronto's Asian community leaders met up for a public town hall meeting. Last night at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, the Asia Pacific Community Consultative Committee organized a talk with Toronto...
Read more → 12 Nov 2013
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By Matthew O'Mara Weeks after the 25th anniversary of the Japanese-Canadian Redress, one question still lingers with documentary filmmaker Greg Masuda. What is our responsibility as beneficiaries of the Redress? It’s a question his film Children of Redress, which recently had a successful Kickstarter...
Read more → 09 Nov 2013
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Tonight, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre turned 50. A celebration and dinner of this half-century milestone was held in the evening bringing together the community inside of the centre's Kobayashi hall. At the evening were a number of the Japanese Canadian community's most well-known personalities...
Read more → 07 Nov 2013
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
By Matthew O'Mara Why doesn’t Toronto have a Japantown? It’s a question that documentary filmmaker Ken Galloway has been asking himself for years. As someone who has lived in both Japan and Canada, Ken has a unique perspective on what is really means to be Japanese Canadian in 2013. “I...
Read more → 05 Nov 2013
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Twenty five seems to be the magic number for Toronto's Asian communities. In 1987, the first Dragon Ball Gala was held and now it's celebrating a quarter century milestone. Held annually to benefit seniors in the Greater Toronto Area, the event attracts some of the wealthiest members of Toronto's...
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