Mark Sakamoto's 'Forgiveness' wins the Canada Reads competition
Paul Kariya's championship rings stolen from Hockey Hall of Fame
Beauty of Japanese tableware comes to Canada
Adorable baby panda creates pandemonium in Tokyo
An eternity in mirrors: Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors opens at AGO
02 Sep 2014
Posted by Lara Perez-Takagi 
Featured image: Lara Pérez-Takagi and Megumi Nishikura in Japan filming their documentary. I was born in Japan and have grown up in the US, Canada, Spain, Australia and Japan. I consider myself Spanish, Japanese and hafu. Currently I am touring my latest co-production, the documentary film “HAFU”-...
Read more → 25 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Behind America and Germany, Japan has the third largest international corporate presence in the city of 700,000. In June, Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion, 93, was given the Order of the Rising Sun in recognition for building strong relations between Canada and Japan. Currently in her final term...
Read more → 15 Aug 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
This problem can have effects as wide ranging as local governments going into bankruptcy to little towns becoming ghost towns. For Yubari, a city on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido and once known as Japan's capital of coal, this challenge is a reality. In a recent article, The Guardian's...
Read more → 13 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
It’s not every day that I have the chance to speak with someone who has lived through one of the most destructive events in human history, after all. As ‘Little Boy’ – the first atomic bomb ever used on a population – fell and then exploded 2000 feet above the ground in Hiroshima, Sestuko...
Read more → 28 Jul 2014
Posted by Cassandra Kobayashi 
A Tale for the Time Being moves across time and continents, exploring themes of life and death, through an ancient Zen Buddhist nun, a kamikaze's secret letters, a teen suicide, and the terrible 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Yet I did not find the book morbid, perhaps because I listened...
Read more → 18 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
Article nine of Japan's constitution, also known as the "Peace Constitution" states that the Japanese people should aspire to maintain international peace based around justice and order. It also states that Japan must give up its right to use force on land, at sea and in the air to solve conflicts. That...
Read more → 18 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
In Canada, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are the most commonly used. In addition, Facebook purchased WhatApps for $19 billion. Now, WhatsApp is the most popular in the world, especially in Latin America and Europe. WeChat was made in China and it has a large number of users, mainly in China,...
Read more → 17 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
While everyone has heard of the buildings mentioned above, do you know about the two towers diversifying the Tokyo skyline? One is the Tokyo Tower that’s colored bright red. The other is Tokyo Sky Tree, which is the world's tallest freestanding tower. The CN Tower is now ranked the third...
Read more → 09 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
What does your blood type say about you? Photo: @05aren Most Japanese people enjoy talking about their blood type with friends or when they're just getting to know someone. Why, you ask? Blood types are used, typically, for things like blood transfusion when someone requires it, but they also...
Read more → 09 Jun 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
Nakanishi is a professor of urban and regional planning at University of Canberra, and she recently worked with the Junposha Co. to translate the book Surviving the 2011 Tsunami: 100 Testimonies of Ishinomaki Area Survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake. She wanted to translate the book...
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