A fork in the road: The life of Tetsuo "Sam" Sakaki, 1905-1982
RENTAL FAMILY: A BIG-HEARTED REMEDY TO LONELINESS
The Samurai in Our Closet: Uncovering long hidden family history
JAPAN SENDS ITS BEST TO TIFF AND VIFF 2025
Suzu Hirose shines in two films coming to Canada this autumn
The lasting legacy of Frank Moritsugu, 1922 - 2025
Japanese Canadian veterans street banners in Vancouver
Kevin Lau's Kimiko's Pearl Symphonic Suite world premiere with Toronto Symphony Opera
Gary Kawaguchi conferred Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays
18 Sep 2019
Posted by Emily Putnam 
Carleton's art gallery launches collaborative new exhibitions. Installation view of Cindy Mochizuki’s Sue Sada Was Here at the Roedde House Museum in Vancouver, BC for the exhibition Memories of the Future III (2018). Photo credit: Rachel Topham Photography. As the curator and co-curator of two upcoming...
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16 Sep 2019
Posted by Danielle Canhoto 
Toronto FC soccer star Tsubasa Endo meets with fans after a tied game with Orlando City on Aug. 10 at BMO Field in Toronto. TORONTO — It was a chilly evening for the Toronto Football Club (TFC) who set out to play Orlando City on Aug. 10. For some fans, it was just another game, but for the Japanese...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Support Our Kids and Spiral Garden spend the day communicating through art. Support Our Kids Japanese students and Spiral Garden campers in front of the flag they decorated together with their colourful handprints. Spiral Garden is a summer day camp for children with and without physical disabilities...
Read more → 28 Aug 2019
Posted by Karri Yano 
A trip to Hong Kong lights the spark for author Leslie Shimotakahara's new book, Red Oblivion. Photo courtesy: Dundurn Press. When sisters Jill and Celeste Lau reunite with their father, they barely recognize the unconquerable self-made man. His housekeeper says his collapse followed the anonymous...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Growing up, Sarah Kuhn rarely saw characters that looked like her, now she changing that. Growing up as a hapa, Japanese American, Kuhn rarely saw characters that looked like her in the stories she loved, sci-fi/fantasies or romantic comedies. Even more rare were stories where Asian girls and women...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
This Time Will Be Different explores how mistakes from the past trickle down through generations. Pictured above, the cover of Misa Sugiura's new book, This Time Will Be Different. Around the same time, Sugiura attended her Japanese Canadian uncle's funeral. She discovered he was named after Mackenzie...
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Posted by Melissa Kawaguchi 
Chieri Uegaki's new book, Ojiichan's Garden, was inspired by questions she wishes she asked her father. Uegaki is the author of Ojiichan's Gift, as well as other children's books like Suki's Kimono, Rosie and Buttercup, and Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin. She visits her grandfather in Japan every...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Kyo Maclear's new book, It Began With a Page How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way. Text by Kyo Maclear / Illustration by Julie Morstad / Courtesy Tundra Books. Fujikawa began with a blank page and created children's books that imagined a bigger, better world, away from societal constraints of race and gender....
Read more → 21 Aug 2019
Posted by Scott Luk 
One of the models at the Kimono Fashion Show, hosted by Kimono Bijin at Anime North on May 25. Photo credit: Scott Luk. Anime North is Toronto's premier anime convention, held annually at the Toronto Congress Centre. This year was no exception and the ever-growing love of anime has subsequently...
Read more → 19 Aug 2019
Posted by Jonathan Eto 
Japanese MLB pitchers showcase their talents in Toronto. Los Angeles Angels Shohei Ohtani was in Toronto, June 17 to 20. Photo credits: Dr. Jonathan Eto. “Sho-time,” as he is affectionately known, is the first two-way player in nearly a century, since Babe Ruth last hit and pitched regularly...
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