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
17 Jan 2018
Posted by Asahi Baseball Association 
The Asahi Baseball Association continues to look for Asahi descendants. This photo of the Asahi team lists the players names below in Japanese. Photo courtesy: George Sadakichi Iga. Through the efforts of Mr. Yobun Shima and the Asahi Family Network in Japan and Emiko Ando of the Asahi Baseball...
Read more → 15 Jan 2018
Posted by Anton Wagner 
Toronto Mayor John Tory presenting Setsuko Thurlow with the certificate at the city council meeting. Photo courtesy: Toronto City Council. Thurlow will be accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The Nobel Peace Prize recognizes...
Read more → 20 Nov 2017
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The evening was a celebration of the new wave of Japanese immigrants who came to Canada, after immigration laws were lifted in 1967. The room was filled with tables of Japanese and Western inspired dinner and desserts. The evening was filled with entertainment, from live traditional and contemporary...
Read more → 13 Nov 2017
Posted by Susan Yatabe and Ewan Craig 
These soldiers were students of the S-20 Japanese Language school in West Vancouver, and they were part of a group that was deployed to Southeast Asia in October 1945 to work for SEATIC (Southeast Asia Translator Interrogator Centre). They included five of the first six Nisei S-20 graduates; the six Nisei...
Read more → 06 Nov 2017
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Japanese jump rope acrobats team up with Cirque du Soleil for an awe-inspiring performance. Photo credit: Benout Leroux. Presenting their newest show, VOLTA, a high energy acrobatic extravaganza, inspired by adrenaline pumped street games, like BMX (extreme biking) and jump rope. For the first...
Read more → 26 Oct 2017
Posted by Scott Kawaguchi 
Ryus Noodle Bar brings the same great ramen to new Toronto location. The mouth-watering, fan-favourite, Pork Blaster can be found on the menu at Ryus Noodle Bar. Photo credit: Scott Kawaguchi. Fortunately, great news came a month later when Ryus announced that they were opening a new location...
Read more → 24 Oct 2017
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Instead what came of it was Kayoi Komachi/Komachi Visited, a heart wrenching story of unrequited love, that makes it's world premiere Oct. 26 to 28 at The Cultch theatre in Vancouver. The presentation brings together master performers of noh (a 14th century Japanese theatre art) including renowned...
Read more → 12 Oct 2017
Posted by Lauren Scott 
Each year, the livestock buildings in Hastings Park are filled with animals, but in 1942, it was Japanese Canadians who were held in the building's stalls. More than 8,000 were kept in barns as a sort of purgatory before they were sent to internment camps in the B.C. Interior. JAPANESE PROBLEM, a new play...
Read more → 10 Oct 2017
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Tetsuro Shigematsu, former CBC broadcaster-turned actor, writes and stars in 'One-Hour Photo'. Photo courtesy: The Cultch Theatre. Shigematsu, a former CBC broadcaster-turned playwright and actor, made waves with his first one-man show, Empire of the Son. In this play, Shigematsu dove deep into...
Read more → 20 Sep 2017
Posted by nikkeivoice 
The Toronto International Film Festival returned this September with a slightly slimmed-down version of 20 per cent fewer films. This affected the Japanese line-up in terms of quantity but certainly not quality. Included in this stellar line-up of Japanese films is Kazuya Shiraishi's drama, Birds Without...
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