The Samurai in Our Closet: Uncovering long hidden family history
JAPAN SENDS ITS BEST TO TIFF AND VIFF 2025
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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
19 Dec 2013
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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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14 Dec 2013
Posted by nikkeistaff 
By Kaori Fujishima Toronto’s Fashion Week is held twice a year, and this year the spring and summer 2014 collections were shown from October 21 to 26, 2013. At this year’s showing was Japanese hair and makeup artist, Takatoshi Ozawa (Taca) who belongs to the Redken hair design team at the show. Taca...
Read more → 13 Dec 2013
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By Kaori Fujishima When Sakuramai dances, they always attract a crowd. The 25th International Tourism and Travel Show (ITTS) took place at Place Bonaventure in Montreal from October 25 to 27. More than a thousand traveling performers and more than five hundred artists came to help visitors the best...
Read more → 05 Dec 2013
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By Matthew O'Mara Whether you're an amateur or master chef, a sharp knife is one of the essential tools you need to cook. A good knife, however, isn't something we all think about on a day to day basis. While we use these tools all of the time from eating food to cutting open packaging, that rusty...
Read more → 26 Nov 2013
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By Matthew O'Mara On Saturday, a reception was held to honour Order of Canada recipient and playwright Toyoshi Yoshihara, for his works and for his translations of North American plays for Japanese audiences. Inside the small theatre at Wychwood Barns near to Christie Station in Toronto, Yoshihara...
Read more → 20 Nov 2013
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By Kaori Fujishima The 17th Reel Asian International Film Festival runs from November 5th to the 16th in both Toronto and Richmond Hill. The festival hosts 60 titles from 14 countries, such as Japan, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, South Korea, and so on other than Canada and the United States this year....
Read more → 15 Nov 2013
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By Saki Nakano Though Midori means “Green” in Japanese, this violinist if far from inexperienced. Last week, a concert was held at Koerner Hall near St. George station in Toronto. Midori, a violinist originally from Japan, stood on the stage and received a standing ovation after she finished...
Read more → 14 Nov 2013
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
By Matthew O'Mara Video games are often the first thing people think of when hearing about Japan. As the birthplace of video game and technology giants like SEGA, Nintendo, Neo Geo, and Sony, Japan is home to hundreds of developers, visionaries, and artists who have pushed video games further than...
Read more → 12 Nov 2013
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By Matthew O'Mara Weeks after the 25th anniversary of the Japanese-Canadian Redress, one question still lingers with documentary filmmaker Greg Masuda. What is our responsibility as beneficiaries of the Redress? It’s a question his film Children of Redress, which recently had a successful Kickstarter...
Read more → 07 Nov 2013
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By Matthew O'Mara Why doesn’t Toronto have a Japantown? It’s a question that documentary filmmaker Ken Galloway has been asking himself for years. As someone who has lived in both Japan and Canada, Ken has a unique perspective on what is really means to be Japanese Canadian in 2013. “I...
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