UBC scholarship connects a Japanese Canadian family through the generations
Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Miss Okamura and Dr. Banno Wedding Newspaper Clipping
Cousins Janis Bridger and Lara Jean Okihiro share their grandmother's story in new children's book
Maiko Jinushi's "Intimacy and Distances" exhibition asks how we are together when physically remote
Mindfulness in the city: Slow food is soul food
Mata Ashita kicks off new season with workshop exploring family, ancestry, and origin stories
Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Edward Chutaro Banno's 1931 UBC Totem Yearbook
Hauntings of the past: Filmmaker Meredith Hama-Brown's "Seagrass" wins big at TIFF
Thornhill Sluggers win the 2023 JC3-Pitch Championship
Smashing stereotypes: Montreal play explores the multifaceted life of Kiyoko Tanaka-Goto
18 Jan 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Self-portrait #5 by Miya Turnbull. Japanese Canadian artist Miya Turnbull's solo exhibition, Inward, Outwards, runs at Acadia University Art Gallery until Feb. 7, 2023. Photo credit: Miya Turnbull. The exhibit's focal point is a wall featuring 100 of Turnbull's masks. The space is filled with...
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02 Nov 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Residuals (住み・墨) by Japanese Canadian choreographer and dance artist Shion Skye Carter runs at the Scotiabank Dance Centre from Friday, Nov. 4 to Saturday, Nov. 5. For tickets and more information, visit the Dance Centre's website. Photo credit: Lula-Belle Jedynak Carter began developing Residuals as...
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20 Oct 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Ichigo-Ichie 一期一会: One Time - One Meeting offered three unique tearoom experiences for visitors at Nuit Blanche at the JCCC on Oct. 1. Photo credit: Dr. Jonathan Eto. For the first time, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre joined in on the fun of Nuit Blanche, as hundreds of people dropped...
Read more → 18 Oct 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Ottawa-based dancer, choreographer and teacher Takako Segawa's new dance film, "Sho ga nai - It can't be helped," honours the Japanese Canadians sent to prisoner of war camps 80 years ago. Photo credit: Sarolta Gyoker. Called Sho ga nai – It can't be helped, Segawa was inspired by the use of the Japanese...
Read more → 27 May 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Hiro Kanagawa plays private eye Sam Shikaze in R. A. Shiomi's award-winning comic-mystery Yellow Fever. Presented by Firehall Arts Centre, Yellow Fever runs from May 28 to June 12. Photos courtesy: Firehall Arts Centre. Kanagawa will portray private eye Sam Shikaze in the award-winning play, Yellow...
Read more → 14 Apr 2022
Posted by Jonathan Eto 
Fans clung to every word as Japanese American singer-songwriter Mitski performed at the newly-renovated Massey Hall in Toronto on March 18. Photos by: Dr. Jonathan Eto. Mitski is known for her dramatic storytelling through movement and music, and fans cheered, cried, and hung on every note....
Read more → 13 Apr 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Dance artist Jennifer Aoki will be performing a work in progress of In The Woods created during Dance West Network's 2021/22 Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency at Simon Fraser University Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on April 20. For Aoki, this theme of discovery also carried into the artistic...
Read more → 16 Mar 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Artist Kellen Hatanaka explores historical and contemporary issues of race, xenophobia, and bias in sport. Left: Home, 2020, by Kellen Hatanaka. Right: Artist Kellen Hatanaka. Photo credit: Kiersten Hatanaka. But of course, the Vancouver Asahi never won a 1993 championship. The club disbanded...
Read more → 15 Mar 2022
Posted by James Heron 
Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yusuke Kafuku and Toko Miura as Misaki Watari in the four-time Oscar-nominated film, Drive My Car. The film follows Yusuke Kafuku, a renowned stage actor and director set to direct a theatre production of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at a Hiroshima festival....
Read more → 16 Feb 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Yume. Digital Dreams pairs up 14 artists to create exciting and experimental digital artwork. Eight of the 14 artists participating in Yume. Digital Dreams. Clockwise (starting at the top left): Experimental dancer Shion Skye Carter (Vancouver), electronic musician and flutist Hitoshi Sugiyama (Edmonton),...
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