Past and present collide in dancer Takako Segawa's new performance
Artist Miya Turnbull reveals the layers beneath in new solo exhibition
JCAM's Aurora Dance Group hosts a weekend of friendship and fun through Japanese folk dance
The Hollow Man: JC artist looking for community feedback
Author Lynne Kutsukake explores the bustling art world of '70s Tokyo in The Art of Vanishing
LiterAsian writers festival spotlights the diverse voices of Pan-Asian authors
Canada and the Atom Bomb photo exhibition at Toronto City Hall
Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Sumitsubo belonging to Kenichi Maeno
A ladder across the globe: Collaborative project connects Canadian and Japanese artist
26 Sep 2013
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Rock and Roll! On October 1st, Guitar Wolf, purportedly one of the loudest bands in the world, will be hitting the Hard Luck Bar in downtown Toronto. The intimate location will be playing host to the Nagasaki-born band and if you go be sure to bring some earplugs! The trio made up of Seiji, the frontman,...
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19 Sep 2013
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By Kaori Fujishima and Riku Kaneko If you love Japanese food, there’s a great place in downtown Toronto we can recommend. Located inside The Village by the Grange on McCaul Street, Manpuku serves delicious home-style Japanese food. The owner Sakiko Ichihara, who is just 29 years old, says the number...
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By Kaori Fujishima Contemporary Japanese Literature is changing every day, and three writers visited the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre recently to discuss what's happening in Japanese literature. Monkey Business is the only English literary journal that publishes contemporary Japanese Literature....
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By Robert Doi Following a frantic and tight conclusion to the regular season, the play-offs have also featured some extremely close games. The quarter-finals saw Jon Nagamatsu’s Wietzes Toyota team defeat Mike Ogino’s Birchmount Collision team 33 – 32 and Glen Kawaguchi’s Dundee Private...
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By Miki Nomura On Sunday in the heart of downtown Toronto, the sound of taiko - Japanese drums - filled the air. The beating of the drums grabbed a captive audience's attention making them gaze onto the stage at Yonge and Dundas Square. There were nine women beating the drums with both power and enthusiasm....
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By Mizuki Ogi You might be thinking, what is Rakugo? Rakugo is a 400-year-old tradition of comic storytelling in Japan. Storytellers, wearing kimonos and brandishing fans and a hand towels as props, kneel down on a zabuton (a Japanese cushion) and engage the audience in elaborate skits. Depending...
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By Ian Harvey Leslie Helm’s Yokohama Yankee is an intimate memoir of his Japanese heritage and the rise and fall of his family’s businesses over five generations. But below the surface, it’s a narrative that operates on many more levels. On one plane, it is the painful journey to understand...
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Posted by Ailin Oishi-Stamatiou 
Urinary incontinence is a problem that increases with age affecting 30 per cent of seniors living in the community and between 50-84 per cent living in long-term care facilities. Women are three times more likely than men to be incontinent, due to the physical stresses of childbearing and a decrease...
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By Jason Kwan Hovering at around 20 establishments, the row of restaurants and cafes on Baldwin Street is a very competitive landscape. Ryu’s Noodle Bar is a new entrant in the quickly exploding ramen market in Toronto and opened its doors in July 2013 just a hundred feet away from one of its well-known...
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By Kent Wilson Early in the morning September 2, 1945 the Second World War ended on the deck of USS Missouri. The American battleship--the last of its class ever built--loomed in Tokyo Bay under cloudy grey skies. Representatives onboard from Japan and nine Allied countries took 23 minutes to sign...
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