Giant pigeons carry messages of love and gratitude in Toronto
Bob Izumi, a Canadian pioneer in fishing
Momona Tamada brings iconic character to life
Debbie Ridpath Ohi on putting love and heart on the page
Best of the Toronto Japanese Film Festival (the lighter side)
Hiroshima 75 years later: An interview with survivor Setsuko Thurlow
An Issei's memoir from an earlier pandemic
Peek behind the photos: Interview with food photographer Vincent Noguchi
Hiroshima Nagasaki Day 75th anniversary commemoration
Mariko Tajiri educates Canadians on the evolving world of sake
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...
Read more → 12 Jun 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Our Departures shows families can come in all shapes and sizes. Jun Kunimura, Kasumi Arimura and Ryusei Kiyama in Our Departures. Photo courtesy: TJFF She finds her husband's estranged father, Setsuo (Jun Kunimura) and convinces him to let the two move in. A widower, Setsuo lives alone and works...
Read more → 08 May 2019
Posted by Jonathan Eto 
An example of this is Daigo Yamashita and his band, Johnny and the Pandora, embody the American Rockabilly culture of the 1950s, like Elvis or Johnny Cash but with a Japanese flare. The band have been working hard to spread their Japanese 50s Rockabilly craze overseas, as well as Japanese biru (beer). With...
Read more → 24 Apr 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Akiyo Fujimura with the poster for Ten Years Japan before introducing the film at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto on March 14. The film is composed of five short films from young, up-and-coming directors. The stories were curated and produced by award-winning and Oscar-nominated...
Read more → 12 Apr 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Japanese Canadian artist's whimsical artwork uses centuries-old techniques. Bookrabbit by Mariko Ando. Ando's artwork, detailed and intricate prints of whimsical, dark and playful nature scenes will be on full display in her new exhibition, Mind the Rambling Hares, at Visual Space Gallery in Vancouver,...
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