Celebrating 90 years of friendship with sakura trees
Moment in History: Marie Katsuno's 'repatriation' on the USS General M.C. Meigs
Kyo Maclear awarded prestigious Trillium Book Award
Toronto author Kim Moritsugu launches her seventh book
The latest buzz around baseball star Ichiro Suzuki
Hiroshima Nagasaki ceremony looks at fallout of nuclear war
Sekigahara tells the forgotten stories of the battle
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...
Read more → 16 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
The Rogers Cup presented by National Bank, is a tennis tournament held in Toronto and Montreal that's bringing some of the world's best tennis players to Canada from Aug. 1st -10th, with an anticipated attendance of over 200,000. For the men, this tournament is part of the ATP (Association of Tennis...
Read more → 16 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
The total number of mobile phones has exceeded the total population in Japan, meaning that when the population level was compared to the ratio of cell phones in Japan, it was 100.1 per cent according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in 2011. One of the reasons that the number...
Read more → 15 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
The British teenage wizard and company were further immortalized on Tuesday as The Wizarding World of Harry Potter — a Harry Potter inspired theme park – opened Tuesday in Osaka at Universal Studios Japan. Two of the films stars, Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood and Tom Felton, Slytherin's...
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