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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...
Read more → 11 Jun 2016
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Colin Okashimo has worked in Singapore for over 30 years, but his firm has offices all around the world and could be looking to Toronto soon. Photo courtesy CKOA “Whether I could find the right collaborating firm to support me is a big thing,” Okashimo told Nikkei Voice in an interview about...
Read more → 10 Jun 2016
Posted by nikkeivoice 
Crowds of filmgoers line up ahead of the Toronto Japanese Film Festival's premiere on June 9 at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. Photo by: Staff To see these films often requires either watching them bootleg or “for free” online, but luckily the Toronto Japanese Film Festival and the line-up...
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