The journey of a piece of furniture and family history
Recipe: Senbei-breaded chicken fingers
Lessons from Ochi: Healthy and mindful food habits
Exploring the sprawling and complex history of Japanese Canadian gardens
New writing group aims to bridge generations
Exploring secret histories with artist Cindy Mochizuki
Historical mural unveiled at Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba
Lessons from Ochi: The inaka and the boogie man
Artist Randall Okita pieces together grandfather's past in "The Book of Distance"
Sharing a new cancer story: Author Kimiko Tobimatsu on new book, Kimiko Does Cancer
13 Jan 2021
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Healthy food practices are taught in Japan at a young age. School children take turns serving each other lunch in Japan. I realized this may not always be the case. It's like when someone asks me about Japan after being away for a year. What can you say without sitting down with them for a few hours?...
Read more → 20 Nov 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Columnist Caroline Ishii on learning how to be alone while living in the Japanese countryside. In leaving Ochi, many friends and colleagues wanted to say goodbye, take me out, give me gifts, and spend time with me. I wondered where all these people were when I was yearning for the company throughout...
Read more → 11 Nov 2020
Posted by Frank Moritsugu 
Nine Nisei Canadian Army sergeants in India in 1946, waiting to go home with the activities in Southeast Asia over. Front Row (left to right): Frank Moritsugu, Sid Sakanashi, Elmer Oike, and Edgar Iwamoto. Back Row: Jin Ide and Fred Kagawa (who visited Scotland together with Frank), Albert Takimoto,...
Read more → 19 May 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
What's not to love about the soft, squishy pillow of deliciousness? Photos courtesy: Caroline Ishii. I've had a lifelong passion for food. I was born into it, with a mother and father who loved food. My mother was an excellent home cook, who made delicious Japanese food. My father's experience...
Read more → 05 Mar 2020
Posted by Kaitlin Findlay 
A photo of George Tamaki in The New Canadian, the clipping comes from an issue published on May 14, 1941. Photo courtesy: Landscapes of Injustice. Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. This essay explores claim No. 3: Reasoning wrong. In the 1940s,...
Read more → 29 Feb 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The Canada Museum in Mio, Wakayama prefecture, is dedicated to telling the history of Japanese emigrants in Canada. In December, I was invited to visit Japan with a delegation of third and fourth generation Japanese Canadians to learn about Japanese culture and bring those lessons back to Canada....
Read more → 19 Feb 2020
Posted by Jordan Stanger-Ross 
Betty and Tak Toyota's wedding March 31, 1946. Photo courtesy: Joy Trapnell. ontinuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. This essay explores claim No. 4: Dispossession is permanent. The internment era was far too long—seven years—most of them...
Read more → 07 Feb 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Searching for my grandfather's grave site 70 years later. Photos courtesy: Caroline Ishii. Otomatsu Ishii, 29, left Japan aboard a merchant ship in 1902. In return for three years of hard labour building the Penticton Railway in B.C., my grandfather received his Canadian citizenship and made his way to Kingcome...
Read more → 20 Jan 2020
Posted by Frank Moritsugu 
Frank Moritsugu during his speech at the Nikkei Veterans Memorial and Luncheon at Toronto's Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Nov. 6. Photo credits: Kelly Fleck. The Bayview United Church service was an elaborate event, attended by 91 members this year. During that service I was the guest speaker....
Read more → 16 Jan 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Asking what it means to be Japanese Canadian while in Japan. Photos courtesy: Caroline Ishii. Growing up in Canada, I struggled with who I was because I didn't look like the other kids in my class. In high school, I was one of a handful of Asian students. Even being Canadian, I feel by the way others...
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