Kate Kamo McHugh retraces ancestors' journeys across Canadian landscapes
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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
06 Oct 2016
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The Jessica Stuart Few's third album, The Passage, launches with a CD release show on Thursday, Oct. 27 at Supermarket in Kensington market with KC Roberts. Photo courtesy: Deborah Lawrence. The koto is a traditional Japanese wooden string instrument. It is usually 6 feet long, with 13 strings,...
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21 Sep 2016
Posted by James Heron 
Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) tries to reconnect with his estranged young son, in director Hirokazu Kore-eda's personal film, After the Storm. Photo courtesy: Toronto International Film Festival. Toronto has become a paradise for Japanese film lovers. Festivals like the Reel Asian International Film Festival,...
Read more → 19 Sep 2016
Posted by Lauren Scott 
Artist Ness Lee opens up about sumo wrestlers, sex and finding herself in Asian culture. Pictured, Lee sits among her work in her East Toronto apartment/studio. Photo credit: Lauren Scott. Ness Lee has been working as a visual artist in Toronto for about five years. Since graduating with a degree...
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14 Sep 2016
Posted by Jenny Peng 
Vancouver's original calligraphy performer, Etsuko Essence Inoue celebrates the art of unpreparedness often creating calligraphy to the music of Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos' shakuhachi. Photo courtesy Estuko Essence Inoue. If she feels any pressure, her steady hand gripping the large mop-like brush made...
Read more → 22 Aug 2016
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
"Ikebana means experiencing life in the flowers," says Tina Wong, president of Ikebana International, Toronto chapter. At Momiji Health Care Society, Nature's Beauty Show displayed the best of ikebana and bonsai that the city has to offer. There were demonstrations on bonsai and ikebana as well...
Read more → 09 Aug 2016
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Pop artist Clara Venice will be headlining her own tour and leading music workshops in Tokyo. Photo credit: Katherine Holland. For Venice, who wears Hello Kitty tights, flower crowns and pastel-coloured wigs this is a dream come true. She says her love for all things kawaii first started with a...
Read more → 05 Aug 2016
Posted by Lauren Scott 
'When I Was Most Beautiful' director Haruhiko Arai, left, and producer Akira Morishige, right, at the screening of the film. Photo credit: Leon Balaban. Haruhiko Arai is an award winning Japanese screenwriter, director and editor of Eiga Geijutsu magazine, who has worked in Japan's independent...
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Posted by Lauren Scott 
From left to right: Aki Takabatake, Toronto Japanese Film Festival co-programmer, director Hiroaki Matsuyama, Toronto Japanese Film Festival organizer James Heron and his wife at the 'Nobunaga Concerto' screening. Photo credit: Leon Balaban. Hiroaki Matsuyama is no stranger to the story of Oda Nobunaga,...
Read more → 17 Jun 2016
Posted by Lauren Scott 
UNIQLO Canada's Chief Operating Officer Yasuhiro Hayashi was in Toronto for the brand's Fall/Winter 2016 Canadian preview event. He says that the, "Customer is always king." Photo by: Lauren Scott Founded upon the Japanese values of simplicity, quality and longevity, UNIQLO Canada's Chief Operating...
Read more → 13 Jun 2016
Posted by Can Akalin 
Seiyo Uchino and Shiori Kutsuna's characters help save the crew of the Turkish frigate Ertugrul, which was caught up in a typhoon in 1890. The sacrifice of the Japanese fishing village would one day be repaid in Turkey. The story of Kainan 1890 begins in Kushimoto, a town on the pacific coast...
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