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
11 Feb 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Hidetoshi Nishijima stars as Yusuke and Toko Miura as Misaki in Drive My Car, a story about love, loss, acceptance and piece. Photo credit: Films We Like. The moving car is where characters' stories unravel, and their truths unveil in director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Oscar-nominated film, Drive My Car. “These...
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22 Dec 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Royal Winnipeg ballet principal dancers, Alanna McAdie, Chenxin Liu and Yue Shi, in Kimiko's Pearl: Digital Short. Photo credit: Bravo Niagara! Performed by the principal dancers of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet with original music and choreography, Kimiko's Pearl shines a spotlight on the Japanese...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Left: Pablo Picasso. Woman in Blue Shawl, 1902. Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 52.4 cm. Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. © Picasso Estate / SOCAN (2021). Right: Pablo Picasso. Woman and Child by the Sea, 1902. Oil on canvas, 81.7 x 59.8 cm. Pola Museum of Art. © Picasso Estate / SOCAN (2020), Photo:...
Read more → 16 Nov 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Ruth Ozeki's new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, explores loss, growing up, and our relationship to stuff. Left: Author Ruth Ozeki. Photo credit: Danielle Tait. Right: The Book of Form and Emptiness. Photo credit: Viking. For Ozeki, the question sparked questions of her own. Often for authors...
Read more → 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...
Read more → 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...
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