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07 Nov 2016
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Kogawa's book, turned children's opera, Naomi's Road, will be directed for the first time by a Japanese Canadian in its Toronto debut. Soprano Hiather Darnel-Kadonaga stars as 9-year-old Naomi, in Tapestry Opera's premiere of Naomi's Road. Photo courtesy Dahlia Katz. The opera was an adaptation...
Read more → 04 Nov 2016
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The taiko pro candidly shares how he started his career in taiko, Nagata Shachu's upcoming concert season and new DVD. Photo courtesy Nagata Shachu. In the Tokyo pavilion, the Japanese taiko group, Osuwa Daiko, were invited to perform. It was here that young Nagata watched a taiko performance...
Read more → 18 Oct 2016
Posted by Akira Kobasigawa 
Osaka eisa troupe, Karakoro, performs in Winnipeg at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in honour of Art Miki and Japanese Canadian redress. Photo courtesy Akira Kobasigawa. Karakoro's full name is Karada-to-kokoro-no-deai-no-kai, meaning a group of body-mind integration. There are 97 members of Karakoro...
Read more → 06 Oct 2016
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The Jessica Stuart Few's third album, The Passage, launches with a CD release show on Thursday, Oct. 27 at Supermarket in Kensington market with KC Roberts. Photo courtesy: Deborah Lawrence. The koto is a traditional Japanese wooden string instrument. It is usually 6 feet long, with 13 strings,...
Read more → 21 Sep 2016
Posted by James Heron 
Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) tries to reconnect with his estranged young son, in director Hirokazu Kore-eda's personal film, After the Storm. Photo courtesy: Toronto International Film Festival. Toronto has become a paradise for Japanese film lovers. Festivals like the Reel Asian International Film Festival,...
Read more → 19 Sep 2016
Posted by Lauren Scott 
Artist Ness Lee opens up about sumo wrestlers, sex and finding herself in Asian culture. Pictured, Lee sits among her work in her East Toronto apartment/studio. Photo credit: Lauren Scott. Ness Lee has been working as a visual artist in Toronto for about five years. Since graduating with a degree...
Read more → 14 Sep 2016
Posted by Jenny Peng 
Vancouver's original calligraphy performer, Etsuko Essence Inoue celebrates the art of unpreparedness often creating calligraphy to the music of Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos' shakuhachi. Photo courtesy Estuko Essence Inoue. If she feels any pressure, her steady hand gripping the large mop-like brush made...
Read more → 22 Aug 2016
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
"Ikebana means experiencing life in the flowers," says Tina Wong, president of Ikebana International, Toronto chapter. At Momiji Health Care Society, Nature's Beauty Show displayed the best of ikebana and bonsai that the city has to offer. There were demonstrations on bonsai and ikebana as well...
Read more → 09 Aug 2016
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Pop artist Clara Venice will be headlining her own tour and leading music workshops in Tokyo. Photo credit: Katherine Holland. For Venice, who wears Hello Kitty tights, flower crowns and pastel-coloured wigs this is a dream come true. She says her love for all things kawaii first started with a...
Read more → 05 Aug 2016
Posted by Lauren Scott 
'When I Was Most Beautiful' director Haruhiko Arai, left, and producer Akira Morishige, right, at the screening of the film. Photo credit: Leon Balaban. Haruhiko Arai is an award winning Japanese screenwriter, director and editor of Eiga Geijutsu magazine, who has worked in Japan's independent...
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