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
10 Nov 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Artist Taka Sudo's murals can be found around Vancouver. Sudo will be participating in the 25th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl this November. Photo credit: @axiscreative. “Since the pandemic, the work I was making was not really commercial art, but it was more [personal]. I felt more honest about...
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27 Oct 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Wife of a Spy examines how war changes people; for some, it is a call to action, while others look away, and others use it as a chance to act brutally without consequence. Yu Aoi stars as Satoko and Issey Takahashi as Yusaku in director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film, Wife of a Spy. Photo credit: Films We Like. Kurosawa...
Read more → 13 Oct 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Yagira Yuya stars as Shu in the film, Gift of Fire. The JCCC will be screening a virtual presentation of the film from Oct. 22 to Oct. 24. Photo credit: Eleven Arts Studio. The film follows Shu, a young research student at Kyoto University on the research team commissioned by the Japanese government...
Read more → 19 Aug 2021
Posted by Leanne Toshiko Simpson 
Michael Prior recognized with the New York Public Library Fellowship, embarking on a research exploration into intergenerational memory and Japanese Canadian and American history. Drawing from the renowned archives and resources of the New York Public Library, Prior will be working on poems that...
Read more → 18 Aug 2021
Posted by Karri Yano 
Miki Sato on creating the illustrations for her first children's book, Golden Threads. Left: Illustrator Miki Sato. Right: The cover of Golden Threads. Photo credit: Owl Kids. Her first picture book, Golden Threads (Owlkids Books, Spring 2020; for ages 4 to 8) written by Suzanne Del Rizzo, is inspired...
Read more → 17 Aug 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Author Grace Eiko Thomson's new memoir, Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms: A Mother & Daughter's Journey through Racism, Internment, and Oppression explores moments in Japanese Canadian history through both her and her mother's perspectives. Every day after school, there would be textbooks...
Read more → 13 Aug 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Yonsei musician Kintaro Akiyama's newest song, Death By Name, is a haunting but upbeat track, written from the perspective of death, with a message of love and encouragement for those listening to live life to its fullest. Death by Name is available on all streaming platforms on Aug. 13. Photo credit:...
Read more → 11 Aug 2021
Posted by Melissa Kawaguchi 
Author Hiromi Goto on the power of voicing underrepresented characters in graphic novel form with her new book, Shadow Life. Photos courtesy Hiromi Goto. Genre-hopping is something Goto does both out of necessity, as she doesn’t always have the time to commit to writing a novel, and curiosity. “It...
Read more → 10 Aug 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Genki Ferguson's debut novel, Satellite Love, explores themes of loneliness and isolation, which have resonated with readers during the pandemic. Left: Author Genki Ferguson. Right: The cover of Satellite Love. “I always remember being just so impressed by the dome of stars—I had never seen...
Read more → 20 Jul 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Brenda Kamino plays her 100 year old grandmother, Hina Yoshida, in At the End of the Day, presented at the Digital Toronto Fringe Festival. Photo credit: Bonnie Anderson. “Her life was an amazing journey,” Kamino tells Nikkei Voice in an interview. “I want [audiences] to take away a woman...
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