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
The lasting legacy of Frank Moritsugu, 1922 - 2025
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
17 Sep 2013
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By Kaori Fujishima Contemporary Japanese Literature is changing every day, and three writers visited the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre recently to discuss what's happening in Japanese literature. Monkey Business is the only English literary journal that publishes contemporary Japanese Literature....
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13 Sep 2013
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By Miki Nomura On Sunday in the heart of downtown Toronto, the sound of taiko - Japanese drums - filled the air. The beating of the drums grabbed a captive audience's attention making them gaze onto the stage at Yonge and Dundas Square. There were nine women beating the drums with both power and enthusiasm....
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By Mizuki Ogi You might be thinking, what is Rakugo? Rakugo is a 400-year-old tradition of comic storytelling in Japan. Storytellers, wearing kimonos and brandishing fans and a hand towels as props, kneel down on a zabuton (a Japanese cushion) and engage the audience in elaborate skits. Depending...
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By Ian Harvey Leslie Helm’s Yokohama Yankee is an intimate memoir of his Japanese heritage and the rise and fall of his family’s businesses over five generations. But below the surface, it’s a narrative that operates on many more levels. On one plane, it is the painful journey to understand...
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By Kent Wilson Early in the morning September 2, 1945 the Second World War ended on the deck of USS Missouri. The American battleship--the last of its class ever built--loomed in Tokyo Bay under cloudy grey skies. Representatives onboard from Japan and nine Allied countries took 23 minutes to sign...
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By Kaori Fujishima and Riku Kaneko Every fourth Thursday of the month, there is a Bar near Ossington Station in Toronto that brims with artistic talent. It is called the Creators’ Lounge! Creators' Lounge (CL) is a Toronto-based project that scouts next-generation artists and gives them...
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By Matthew O'Mara Objection! While some video game film adaptations are great this one needed to take a few steps back from its source material. Ace Attorney (逆転裁判 Gyakuten Saiban, "Turnabout Trial") is the story of defense attorney Pheonix Wright's journey from being an apprentice to becoming...
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By Kaori Fujishima Artists who practice Batik are a rare find in Toronto, but for Sayaka Miwa, a dyeing artist, she works with this art form everyday. Batik is a technique used to dye fabrics. Melted candle wax is put on a fabric such as cotton and silk with a brush or a spray gun. Next dyestuffs...
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By Matthew O'Mara A snake curls through the upper halls of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Summer camps - some with younger and some older students - idly walk by looking up and pointing to the installation that winds its way towards Ai WeiWei's new exhibit at the gallery. Made from 883 backpacks,...
Read more → 08 Aug 2013
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By Norm Ibuki I received a phone message from my nisei Aunt Lorna in Barrie, ON: “Norman: I just saw a news report on CTV news about a group of students from Malvern Collegiate in Toronto who are going to Japan to see the 3/11 disaster zone. The Japanese Consul-General, Eiji Yamamoto, says that...
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