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
29 Aug 2014
Posted by Samantha Whyte 
Each year 100 members gather to perform songs and stories from both mainland Japan and Okinawan culture to worldwide audience. This day was no different. The first half of their spectacular performance was from Kenji Miyazawa’s “A Night on the Galactic Railroad”. Its author hails from...
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25 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Behind America and Germany, Japan has the third largest international corporate presence in the city of 700,000. In June, Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion, 93, was given the Order of the Rising Sun in recognition for building strong relations between Canada and Japan. Currently in her final term...
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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...
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Posted by Luke Galati 
For Brook Soso, the character Glenn plays on the hit television show Orange is the New Black, it didn't take her character very long to realize that she doesn’t really fit in. In the popular Netflix exclusive series, Litchfield prison is racially divided and Glenn plays the only Japanese-American...
Read more → 13 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
It’s not every day that I have the chance to speak with someone who has lived through one of the most destructive events in human history, after all. As ‘Little Boy’ – the first atomic bomb ever used on a population – fell and then exploded 2000 feet above the ground in Hiroshima, Sestuko...
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Posted by nikkeistaff 
It might sound like a strange idea, but these friendly feline coffee houses have been popping up in Japan for years and they're starting to gain steam here in Canada. A cat café works just how you'd expect it to. Customers come in and spend time with the cats. It all started Taiwan in 1998 and became...
Read more → 08 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Part of the ceremony saw candles lit and set afloat on the water in the square to help bring peace to the victims of the attack, and promoting peace was the topic of discussion with the candidates at the event. David Soknacki, Karen Stintz and Olivia Chow were in attendance. Mayor Rob Ford and mayoral...
Read more → 07 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
In 1982, the Mayor of Hiroshima created the Mayors for Peace program, which promotes the abolition of nuclear weapons and the supports the peace movement. Since April 1983, Toronto has teamed up with 6,206 other cities internationally in over 160 countries to create the Mayors for Peace initiative. Mayor...
Read more → 01 Aug 2014
Posted by Frank Maikawa 
After graduating from Ryerson in 1956, his lifetime work was always in the electronics communications engineering field. He has been retired since 1996, enjoying his golden years with his wife, Yoshimi Susan (Suyama) in the Georgian Bay area near the Blue Mountains of Ontario. Preface: I was thinking...
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