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 Nov 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
The Vancouver Asahi is still one of the most talked about baseball teams in Canadian history, but smaller teams have also made their mark. Forming in the early 1950s, the Nisei Tennis League was comprised both Vancouverites and Torontonians and brought Japanese Canadians together in a time when they...
Read more → 07 Nov 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Participants flew in from as far as Alberta, Ontario, and the Yukon to meet other young leaders in Canada’s Japanese community. The conference’s goal was to bring together the next generation of Japanese Canadians to help them take up the torch of preserving and forwarding the history and goals...
Read more → 05 Nov 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Flash Boys throws readers into the heart of the American financial marketplace and makes a complex subject matter engaging — all while humanizing the story with a group of unlikely characters that have a whole lot of personality. For most financial journalists, this task would be as daunting as trying...
Read more → 04 Nov 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Property. It’s something lost by all who were forcibly evacuated as Enemy Aliens, although the size and shape of what was taken is always different. From fishing boats, businesses, and homes; heirlooms, treasures, and memories, they were all part of the Canadian government’s systematic dismantlement...
Read more → 21 Oct 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
There are many Japanese people learning English in Toronto, but there are many Canadian learning Japanese. While many might know a few words here or there from manga and anime, a few will go on to learn just how difficult the language is. However, there's a scale out there to help measure how proficient...
Read more → 12 Sep 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
A number of thoughts crossed my mind. First of all Jerry is police officer with the Thunder Bay Police Services but the subject line of “Book” did not convey any sense of urgency or dire circumstance. Filled with curiosity I called Jerry. “Hello, Jerry,” I said. “It’s your cousin,...
Read more → 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...
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