Landscapes of Injustice: Dispossession is permanent
The joy of cooking and search for the perfect kitchen
Stories from a mountain town: Finding Otomatsu
Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Digitized Japanese Canadian home movies
Isabella's Boutique Restaurant: Taste of Japanese comfort food
"The Little House" Review: Reading between the lines
YAMATO: Drummers of Japan brings passion to the stage with North American tour
Frankly speaking: Will I give talks in the coming year?
Stories from a mountain town: I am Japanese Canadian
Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Hand drawn prisoner of war illustration
27 Sep 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Toronto Dance Theatre dancers performing GH 5.0 by Hanna Kiel, which the company will perform in at Fall for Dance 2019 on Oct. 2. Megumi Kokuba is on the far right. Photo credit: Omer Yukseker. Okinawa, the southernmost island of Japan, has its own unique, rich culture, with distinct dance styles,...
Read more → 18 Sep 2019
Posted by Emily Putnam 
Carleton's art gallery launches collaborative new exhibitions. Installation view of Cindy Mochizuki’s Sue Sada Was Here at the Roedde House Museum in Vancouver, BC for the exhibition Memories of the Future III (2018). Photo credit: Rachel Topham Photography. As the curator and co-curator of two upcoming...
Read more → 28 Aug 2019
Posted by Karri Yano 
A trip to Hong Kong lights the spark for author Leslie Shimotakahara's new book, Red Oblivion. Photo courtesy: Dundurn Press. When sisters Jill and Celeste Lau reunite with their father, they barely recognize the unconquerable self-made man. His housekeeper says his collapse followed the anonymous...
Read more → 27 Aug 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Growing up, Sarah Kuhn rarely saw characters that looked like her, now she changing that. Growing up as a hapa, Japanese American, Kuhn rarely saw characters that looked like her in the stories she loved, sci-fi/fantasies or romantic comedies. Even more rare were stories where Asian girls and women...
Read more → 26 Aug 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
This Time Will Be Different explores how mistakes from the past trickle down through generations. Pictured above, the cover of Misa Sugiura's new book, This Time Will Be Different. Around the same time, Sugiura attended her Japanese Canadian uncle's funeral. She discovered he was named after Mackenzie...
Read more → 23 Aug 2019
Posted by Melissa Kawaguchi 
Chieri Uegaki's new book, Ojiichan's Garden, was inspired by questions she wishes she asked her father. Uegaki is the author of Ojiichan's Gift, as well as other children's books like Suki's Kimono, Rosie and Buttercup, and Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin. She visits her grandfather in Japan every...
Read more → 22 Aug 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Kyo Maclear's new book, It Began With a Page How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way. Text by Kyo Maclear / Illustration by Julie Morstad / Courtesy Tundra Books. Fujikawa began with a blank page and created children's books that imagined a bigger, better world, away from societal constraints of race and gender....
Read more → 21 Aug 2019
Posted by Scott Luk 
One of the models at the Kimono Fashion Show, hosted by Kimono Bijin at Anime North on May 25. Photo credit: Scott Luk. Anime North is Toronto's premier anime convention, held annually at the Toronto Congress Centre. This year was no exception and the ever-growing love of anime has subsequently...
Read more → 30 Jul 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
TJFF festival director James Heron, TJFF programmer Aki Takabatake, actress Ayaka Miyoshi, director Shinobu Yaguchi and TJFF festival director Chris Hope. Photo courtesy: Leon Balaban/Yosh Inoue/TJFF. The film was met with an overwhelmingly positive response and standing ovation that brought...
Read more → 26 Jul 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Toshiyuki Teruya was the co-recipient of the Grand Jury Prize at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival. Also in the photo, TJFF programmer Aki Takabatake and TJFF festival director James Heron. Photo courtesy: Leon Balaban/Yosh Inoue/TJFF. Teruya wanted to write a story about a man trying to hide...
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