Momiji celebrates its volunteers for National volunteer week
Enemy Lines: Artist Mayumi Lashbrook explores how fear can divide humanity
Revealing layers within: Miya Turnbull and Shion Skye Carter on cross-disciplinary collaboration
The exceptional ones: Grappling with use of Emergencies Act
Japonica goes digital: Momiji Health Care Society's innovative approach to fundraising
Artist Emmie Tsumura's Powell Street Festival poster design wins international communication award
Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Roy Matsui at Angler
Shapes in Between: New retrospective of artist Norman Takeuchi at the Ottawa Art Gallery
Finding Forgiveness: Director Stafford Arima on bringing the award-winning memoir to the stage
25 Jan 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Artists Annie Sumi and Brian Kobayakawa are the creators of Kintsugi, an anti-racist, interactive art installation at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre until March 17. TORONTO — In the heart of the Moriyama Nikkei Heritage Centre at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre sits a prewar treadle-powered...
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17 Jan 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Left: A 19-year-old Frank Moritsugu sitting on the roof of a Yard Creek camp shack in 1943. Repository: JCCC. Collection: Dawn Miike Collection. Accession Number: 2014.02.01.09. Right: Current day Frank holding a letter with birthday wishes from the Queen for his 100th birthday. “Becoming 100 years...
Read more → 24 Aug 2022
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Koichiro and Hisa Okihiro's wedding photo in Vancouver in 1940. The wedding guestbook, inscribed with a New Westminster address was an important clue for Lara Okihiro and Janis Bridger to uncover their family history. Photo courtesy: Walt Okihiro. Rediscovering a 40-year-old newspaper article...
Read more → 17 Aug 2022
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Left: The Stop Asian Racism zine. Lisa Taniguchi reached out to 13 Asian Canadian and American artists to create artwork celebrating Asian identities and calling out Asian hate. Right: Artist and designer Lisa Taniguchi. Taniguchi created Be Kind Club, an online store that sells products featuring...
Read more → 19 May 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Dr. Henry Shimizu, Samantha Kuniko Marsh, and Greg Shimizu at the opening night of Isshoni: Henry Shimizu's Paintings of New Denver Internment at the University of Victoria's Legacy Art Gallery on April 23. Photo courtesy: Samantha Kuniko Marsh. Henry's paintings reflect his bittersweet memories...
Read more → 21 Apr 2022
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For 12 years, Chihiro Maezawa has brought healthy Japanese treats to Toronto farmers' markets with Natural Japaneats. Above is Maezawa at the Artscape Wychwood Barns farmers' market. Photos by: Kelly Fleck. Behind Natural Japaneats is Chihiro Maezawa, whose passion for healthy vegan treats comes...
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 → 18 Nov 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
An image from Randall Okita's new VR storytelling experience, The Book of Distance. Now available free on the Steam, Oculus and Viveport stores. Photo credit: NFB/Book of Distance. “He was a big part of my life, and he was also the quietest person I've ever met,” Okita tells Nikkei Voice in an interview....
Read more → 23 Oct 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
On understanding that cultural identity is more than fractions and mathematical equations. Part of the cover of artists Jeff Chiba Stearns and Lillian Michiko Blakey's new graphic novel, On Being Yukiko, set to release in early December. Photo courtesy: Jeff Chiba Stearns/Lillian Michiko Blakey. Artists...
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