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JAPAN SENDS ITS BEST TO TIFF AND VIFF 2025
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Japanese Canadian veterans street banners in Vancouver
Kevin Lau's Kimiko's Pearl Symphonic Suite world premiere with Toronto Symphony Opera
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YAMATO: The Drummers of Japan to visit 35 cities in the U.S. and Canada with new program
19 Jun 2017
Posted by Anton Wagner 
Setsuko Thurlow, a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor and Hiroshima Peace ambassador received the Ahmadiyya Muslim Prize for peace in March. Photo: Setsuko Thurlow with the Austrian Foreign Minister at the 2014 Vienna Conference for the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. The Ahmadiyya community,...
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14 Jun 2017
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
UBC President Santa Ono was in Tokyo to sign the agreement on April 25 along with UTokyo President Makoto Gonokami and Max Planck Society President Martin Stratmann. The partnership will form the Max Planck – UBC – UTokyo Centre for Quantum Materials, an expansion on the partnership that was established...
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Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Years worth of drama bubble over in this Japanese film about family. Photo courtesy: TJFF And that's exactly what happens when Shuzo Hirata's (Isao Hashizume) wife asks for a divorce... as a 50th anniversary present. The bombshell request sends the family, who mostly live under the same roof,...
Read more → 09 Jun 2017
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Emperor Akihito will be the first emperor to abdicate in 200 years with the landmark new bill passed by Japanese parliament. (Photo Credit: Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Achilles Tsantarliotis) Japanese Parliament has passed a historic bill allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate the Chrysanthemum...
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Posted by nikkeivoice 
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s annual film festival will be held from June 8 to 28 and features over 25 films including many International, North American and Canadian premieres. Japan has one of the world is biggest film industries and a huge appetite for domestic product. But beyond...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
American columnist 'uncomfortable' with Japanese driver winning race near Memorial Day. Takuma Sato driving for Super Aguri F1 at the 2007 British Grand Prix. Photo credit: Rob Snell/Wikimedia Commons “Nothing specifically personal, but I am very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
96 year-old Pat Adachi with Canadian Governor General David Johnston at the London Convention Centre on March 9, 2017. Photo credit: Kelly Fleck Adachi, 96, authored Asahi: A Legend in Baseball, which documented the legacy and cultural impact the legendary baseball team had on the Japanese Canadian...
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Posted by Lana Nowakowski 
Aussie pro-wrestler and heavy metal sensation Ladybeard describes his passions as dancing, singing and destroying … and now he has a new playmate to help him delight and assault the senses of adoring fans across the world. Photo courtesy: Naoko Tachibana Three years after moving from Hong...
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Posted by Frank Moritsugu 
Recent events raise questions of rising racism in Canada. It has been nearly 30 years since the Redress settlement was signed in Sept. 1988. Photo courtesy Archives of Canada. And here we are seeing the ugly word “racism” in newspaper headlines so often again. A recent Toronto example: the York...
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Posted by Shoko Uno 
'Your Name' is the fourth highest grossing film in Japan of all time and is set to premier in Canada on April 7th. Photo courtesy: Funimation. Director Shinkai is famous for his beautiful animation with sophisticated scripts. The film is based on his own novel, published only a month before...
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