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
22 Jul 2016
Posted by Gil Asakawa 
The caliber of a chef's sushi has more to do with passion and expertise than race or ethnicity. Photo courtesy: Pixabay In 2013, a Seattle sushi restaurant, Mashiko, posted an open letter on its website saying that people who criticize the restaurant for having non-Japanese employees are bigots. “Stop...
Read more → 19 Jun 2015
Posted by nikkeivoice 
— Recipe and Photo Contributed by Tosh Kikuta — In this recipe, the meat is infused with flavour from garlic, ginger and sugar. The vegetables, bean sprouts and mein noodles are crunchy and tasty. It's the cooking method that makes the difference. Cook quickly, use high heat, 'lift' the mixture...
Read more → 21 Aug 2014
Posted by nikkeivoice 
This year, Folklorama celebrated 45 years and the Japanese-Canadian community in Manitoba has been involved for most of those years. Celebrating the diversity of Canada and promoting cultural understanding is the mission of this festival. The Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba were one of the six founding...
Read more → 20 Aug 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
The popular Japanese retailer will open its first store across from the Eaton Centre in Toronto, opening December, 2014, along with two additional shops that are slated to open by the end of the following year. Muji sells various kinds of products, such as food and beverages, casual and formal...
Read more → 24 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
When speaking with Kimura, 87, listening to him reflect back on his life, it's no wonder why he wrote an autobiography called, The Life of One Cherry Charlie: Philosopher, Poet and Pool Player, which was released Oct. 30, 2013. During World War Two, Kimura's family was forced to leave Vancouver....
Read more → 23 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
Matsuri is back on Sunday, July, 27th this year with new events taking place. Shuntaro Kurakake, the president of Matsuri, said that he wanted to introduce Japanese culture into the Canadian community through this huge event at Yonge-Dundas Square. Japanese food has become popular and common...
Read more → 22 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
You can see vending machines everywhere in Japan, especially in busy cities like Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and so on. It's next to impossible to avoid them. There are about four million of these machines in Japan according to the JVMA (Japan Vending machine Manufactures Association) in 2013. To give...
Read more → 21 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
UBC has offered to pay for Sugiyama and a guest’s flight, while letting him stay at the university, where he will fulfil his official enrolment in the school’s new Asian Canadian Studies program as an honoured guest. During his visit, he will be a registered student at UBC, where he was unable...
Read more → 17 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
Partially due to Japan's aging population, in 2003, the Hankyu train company introduced a cell phone free car on each train, since a large number of people were concerned about the influence of cell phones signals on their pacemakers. Knowing that if Hankyu didn't shift their policy, their passengers...
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...
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