Toronto's Reel Asian Film Festival announces programming lineup
Journey sparked by a photograph
Author Mariko Tamaki shares how she writes a great story
Nostalgia Night honours churches that helped build the community
Stories of Nikkei fishermen wins BC book prize
Celebrating 90 years of friendship with sakura trees
Moment in History: Marie Katsuno's 'repatriation' on the USS General M.C. Meigs
10 Jun 2016
Posted by nikkeivoice 
Crowds of filmgoers line up ahead of the Toronto Japanese Film Festival's premiere on June 9 at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. Photo by: Staff To see these films often requires either watching them bootleg or “for free” online, but luckily the Toronto Japanese Film Festival and the line-up...
Read more → 09 Jun 2016
Posted by Dawn Suzuki 
The work of Takashi Hilferink explores the impact of man on the environment with a focus on disaster imagery featuring thermographic images of humans performing daily rituals. Photo courtesy: Takashi Hilferink As a child, Maki lived on a Mohawk reservation in Oka, Que. with her family for five...
Read more → 20 May 2016
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Tatsumi, left, who plays Josh, and Shingo Usami, who plays Kenji, have to reconcile their differences to keep their family together in 'Riceballs'. Photo courtesy: TIFF The short film shows the struggles of both characters in the wake of a family member's death. His son misses his mother and his father...
Read more → 17 May 2016
Posted by Jonathan Eto 
Annie Sumi, 22, is on three-month tour of Ontario right now and gaining momentum with each show. Photo by: Jon Eto Highlighted with big names like Canada’s Tegan & Sara, the Strumbella’s, Lights and others, it's also an opportunity for networking and showcasing rising new artists like...
Read more → 10 May 2016
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Jai West plays Mak, a mysterious driver and worker, in The People Garden alongside Pamela Anderson. Sweetpea (Hemingway) goes to Japan in order to break up with Jamie, her rock star boyfriend, only to find that he's gone missing in a mysterious forest while shooting a music video. Mak (West) is sent...
Read more → 13 Apr 2016
Posted by Theresssa Takasaki 
Sideways: Memoir of a Misfit is available for purchase via Diaspora Press, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre, and Nikkei Books. At the Moriyama Nikkei Heritage Centre at the JCCC, author Diana Morita Cole hosted a reading of her book Sideways:...
Read more → 12 Apr 2016
Posted by Joshua Mostow 
Wakashu with a Shoulder Drum Hosoda Eisui (fl. 1790–1823) from the Sir Edmund Walker Collection. Image courtesy: ROM Viewers new to Edo-period prints often have difficulty distinguishing wakashu—essentially teen-age boys—from young women; both often wear long, ‘furi-sode’ sleeves and colourful...
Read more → 08 Apr 2016
Posted by Chris Hope 
Lawrence Gowan is the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the band 'Styx', but also performs solo. Photo by: Jim Simonson "I'm very happy and honoured to be participating in the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre's Sakura Gala and helping to support the educational mandate of the Centre,” Gowan...
Read more → 07 Apr 2016
Posted by nikkeivoice 
John Ota, left, Hitoko Okada, center, Michelle Chermain Ramos, right, talk on their discussion about promoting Japanese Canadian artists. Photo by: Matthew O'Mara The event held in early April brought together artists from around Ontario for a number of brainstorming seminars from discussing networking...
Read more → 05 Apr 2016
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Aya Shimamura has returned to Japan with her father following their release from an internment camp and it's a tough transition. Image courtesy: Penguin Random House During the Second World War, the mass diaspora of the Japanese across the world came to a shuddering halt. These Nikkei had migrated...
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