Miho Suzuki explores accent bias and identity in "The Improper Identity" at Toronto Fringe Festival
Kate Kamo McHugh retraces ancestors' journeys across Canadian landscapes
Author Keiko Honda on the stories we inherit and the ones we pass on
Kimiko's Pearl album, featuring the ballet's original score, contends for two Juno Awards
The legacy of the Dantai: The Fraser River Fishermen’s Association
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
03 Jul 2026
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The Improper Identity makes its Toronto Fringe Festival debut July 2 to 12 at Native Earth’s Minogitoon Workspace Giizis Studio, presented by Japanese Canadian performing arts company Mihyonvision. Japanese Canadian actor and playwright Miho Suzuki explores this overlooked reality in her new play, The...
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11 May 2026
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
A photograph from RETRACED. Artist Kate Kamo McHugh performs in Coalsdale, B.C. RETRACED runs at Shintani Gallery from May 9 to 24 Since their arrival in Canada, her ancestors, the Takedas and Kamos, moved and were moved multiple times across Canada. Last summer, the Waterloo-based artist retraced...
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21 Apr 2026
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Left: The cover of Hidden Flowers. Photo courtesy: Heritage House. Right: The Broken Map Home. Photo courtesy: Caitlin Press. Keiko Honda will speak about her newest books, Hidden Flowers and The Broken Map Home, during two Asian Heritage Month book events in Toronto: Ben McNally Books on May 4 and the Toronto...
Read more → 21 Nov 2025
Posted by James Heron 
Shannon Gorman and Brendan Fraser in RENTAL FAMILY. Photo by James Lisle/Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved. This is down to Hikari, the Japanese director and screenwriter behind the project. Her films include 37 Seconds and episodes of Tokyo Vice and Beef, and she clearly...
Read more → 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,...
Read more → 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...
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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...
Read more → 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...
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