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
Omote: A melding of artistic expressions and experiences
Suzanne Hartmann's hybrid memoir explores convergence of personal and community stories
YAMATO: The Drummers of Japan to visit 35 cities in the U.S. and Canada with new program
23 Sep 2025
Posted by James Heron 
A strong selection of Japanese films at TIFF and VIFF this fall. Clockwise: Saikai Paradise, ©KEIKO TSURUOKA. Renoir, ©Renoir Loaded Films. Kohuko, ©Shuichi Yoshida/ASP ©2025 "KOHUKO" Film Partners. KOKUHO (TIFF and VIFF) Kokuho has become an unexpected phenomenon at the Japanese box office,...
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19 Aug 2025
Posted by James Heron 
Suzu Hirose as a young Etsuko in "A Pale View of Hills", adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro's debut novel and 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. ©2025 A Pale View of Hills Film Partners. In 2024-25, she appeared in the lead roles of five films, two of which are coming to Toronto this autumn. One of the most...
Read more → 18 Mar 2025
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Kevin Lau's Kimiko's Pearl Symphonic Suite makes its world premiere with the Toronto Symphony Opera. Artwork above: Norman Takeuchi, Kimiko’s Pearl - Epilogue (detail), 2024, acrylic on canvas. Photo courtesy: Norman Takeuchi. The ballet centres around a teenage girl named Kimiko, who discovers...
Read more → 28 Feb 2025
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Visual artist and mask maker Miya Turnbull and dance artist and choreographer Shion Skye Carter perform Omote (面), which makes its Eastern and Western Canadian premiere in Halifax on Feb. 28 and March 1, and in Vancouver on March 12 and 14. Photo courtesy of the artists. Turnbull is a Yonsei...
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20 Jan 2025
Posted by Andrea Sakiyama Kennedy 
Suzanne Hartmann discusses new hybrid memoir, The Nail That Sticks Out, exploring personal and community stories. At once both deeply personal and solidly grounded in researched historical fact, Hartmann skillfully weaves together an account of the joys and the challenges she faced growing up half-Asian...
Read more → 17 Jan 2025
Posted by nikkeivoice 
The contemporary Taiko troupe will bring their “visually stunning, musically interesting, powerful and humorous” (Addicted Toronto) show to venues throughout the United States and Canada from January 16 – March 29. Photo credits: Hiroshi Seo. “A genuinely theatrical experience, delivered with...
Read more → 01 Nov 2024
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Dancer and choreographer Takako Segawa explores how Japanese culture echoes through Canada in new dance performance, Echoes: Vibrations from Japan to Canada. Photo credit: Yves Soglo. Choreographed and performed by Segawa, this original dance performance takes viewers on a journey through time...
Read more → 03 Oct 2024
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Artist Miya Turnbull's new exhibition, Revealed, opens at Shintani Gallery on Oct. 4. Mask #5 by Miya Turnbull. Photo courtesy of the artist. In Turnbull's new exhibit, Revealed, she invites viewers to peel back the layers of her masks and, perhaps, reveal things about themselves in the process....
Read more → 29 Jul 2024
Posted by nikkeivoice 
The Hollow Man by Yonsei artist Jon Sasaki will stand outside the Livestock Building at Hastings Park in Vancouver, B.C. The "anti-monument" spotlights racist actions of Ian Alistair Mackenzie. Photo courtesy: Jon Sasaki. The work is scheduled to be installed in October 2024 at Hastings Park...
Read more → 25 Jul 2024
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Author Lynne Kutsukake with her new novel, The Art of Vanishing, during the book's launch at Ben McNally Books in Toronto on June 18. Photo credit: Kelly Fleck. The cover of Lynne Kutsukake's new novel, The Art of Vanishing. Photo courtesy: Knopf Canada. Kutsukake dives into the bustling and avant-garde...
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