WOMEN DIRECTORS DOMINATE TORONTO AND VANCOUVER FESTIVAL LINEUPS
Artist A.S.M. Kobayashi brings life to government documents in 'Electric Neon Clock'
Lifting the layers behind the mask: Miya Turnbull and Shion Skye Carter on 'Omote (面)'
Author Jeff Chiba Stearns brings yokai and folklore to Japanese Canadian history
South Side Samurai Munetaka Murakami rides into Toronto
Vancouver Japanese Film Festival launches in September
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
29 Jan 2014
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By Remi Kobayashi Director Chris Hope will be travelling to Japan to present his film to a number of interested parties. Hatsumi - One Grandmother's Journey Through the Japanese Canadian Internment is a short film that follows Chris Hope and his grandmother Nancy Okura, a Japanese Canadian who was involuntarily...
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28 Jan 2014
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By Remi Kobayashi Just past Toronto landmark Honest Eds is a small knife store named TOSHO Knife Arts. Inside of the small shop, the owners have a large selection of Japanese knives and they also offer sharpening services and custom made saya. There are over 100 kinds of knives including kitchen...
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23 Jan 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
By Matthew O'Mara Family albums speak volumes about your personal archaeology. The photos within show everything from family dinners, vacations spend in the sun, and the rose-tinted memory of childhood. However, what if there was a secret album? Since the 1960's, Canada has been a hub for immigration...
Read more → 22 Jan 2014
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If you find a great view on your walk to work or while traveling, you might pull of your camera to take a photo, but for artist Shinya Kumazawa drawing is the best way to save a memory. Painting your world Shinya Kumazawa is an artist and a nature lover, and expresses this love of both...
Read more → 16 Jan 2014
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By Remi Kobayashi Ichimaru (市丸) , real name Goto Matsue (後藤まつゑ), was a famous geisha and singer of the showa period in Japan. Ichimaru was born in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture in 1906, and she began working as a trainee geisha at an Asama onsen in Matsumoto when she was 16 years old....
Read more → 15 Jan 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
By Matthew O'Mara "Kaori and Ryota are casual acquaintances I met while watching them perform last summer at the very busy corner of Yonge-Dundas in Toronto," filmmaker Jim Bachalo told Nikkei Voice in an email correspondence. "I knew immediately that they deserved a much larger audience." What...
Read more → 08 Jan 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
By Matthew O'Mara VANCOUVER -- This isn't your typical exhibition of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Starting January 9th, The West Vancouver Museum will be hosting Ukiyoe Spectacular an exhibit that will be showcasing over one hundred colourful and unusual woodblock prints. The prints included...
Read more → 06 Jan 2014
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By Yui Banno This was a night of rock and roll from Japan’s “Young Lion of the Shamisen World”. Koji Yamaguchi is an award winning, Japanese Tsugaru-shamisen player. Although he is just 24 years old, he plays with great technique and a unique performance style. During a night at the Japanese...
Read more → 30 Dec 2013
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By Saki Nakano TORONTO -- Wandering backpacker and musician Hoshi Ho ssy spent 10 years traveling the world with his drums and didgeridoo. He began playing when he was young and was taught by his grandmother to play a number of instruments. He told us that she was a great inspiration to his music...
Read more → 19 Dec 2013
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
By Matthew O'Mara At the end of November, taiko drumming group Nagata Shachu celebrated their 15th anniversary with a two-night performance at the Enwave Theatre in Toronto. The taiko group has lived through the last decade and a half in constant transition through touring across North America...
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