Hot Docs festival shines a spotlight on Japanese films
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Recognizing legacies: Pat Adachi receives Meritorious Service Award
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Frankly Speaking: Racism is back again - did it ever really go?
06 Aug 2013
Posted by nikkeistaff 
By: Daniel Lachapelle Lemire As I write these lines, Canada is on the way to a Japanese takeover. There is nothing sinister in this: the Zen Nihon Iaidō Renmei (All-Japan Federation of Iaido, or ZNIR), the largest association of its kind in Japan, is currently in the process of reshaping its administrative...
Read more → 02 Aug 2013
Posted by nikkeistaff 
By George Uyeda KAMLOOPS - Shortly after World War II many interned Japanese families were allowed to move into the Interior of B.C. and made the city of Kamloops their home. Amongst these families were a small group of young Japanese men who wanted to pursue and create a baseball team. This...
Read more → 30 Jul 2013
Posted by nikkeivoice 
By Matthew O'Mara It was curry that brought me to J-Town. Ever since I went to Japan, curry had been on my mind. In an average Japanese city, you can find a place to buy a bowl of steaming-hot curry on almost any street, and it's usually spicy to boot. Train stations have special compact restaurants...
Read more → 25 Jul 2013
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By Mizuki Ogi and Miki Nomura Our long-time dream, eternal life. Shin Kubota is pursuing a dream no human has ever achieved. Kubota has been doing research on tiny Turritopsis dohrnii, a kind of jellyfish, for 37 years in Kyoto University’s Seto Marine Biological Laboratory located in Shirahama...
Read more → 24 Jul 2013
Posted by nikkeivoice 
By Scott Kawaguchi TORONTO – In only their second full day on Canadian soil, the 24 Grade 10 and 11 students from Seiwa Gakuen high school in Sendai, Japan showed no ill effects of their travels as they delivered an energetic presentation to the crowd gathered at Toronto’s Japan Foundation on March...
Read more → 07 Nov 2012
Posted by nikkeivoice 
By Cassandra Kobayashi Joël Watanabe is the executive chef at Bao Bei Chinese Brasserie. On the edge of Vancouver's old Chinatown, it is anything but old, and some say, not very Chinese. Bao Bei means “precious” in Mandarin. The Globe and Mail, and Vancouver Sun critics love it. Air Canada's...
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