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
14 Dec 2013
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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...
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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
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
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...
Read more → 06 Nov 2013
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By Kent Wilson Dictionaries are warehouses of language. Great structures with many hallways, galleries, and secret rooms housing countless words, each recognized individually, all waiting patiently to be spoken. But what of the work building these giant repositories? The innumerable hours sourcing...
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