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
The legacy of the Dantai: The Fraser River Fishermen’s Association
A fork in the road: The life of Tetsuo "Sam" Sakaki, 1905-1982
RENTAL FAMILY: A BIG-HEARTED REMEDY TO LONELINESS
The Samurai in Our Closet: Uncovering long hidden family history
15 Mar 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Director Stafford Arima on bringing Mark Sakamoto's award-winning memoir, Forgiveness, to the stage. Yoshie Bancroft stars as Mitsue Sakamoto alongside Kevin Takahide Lee as Hideo Sakamoto in the stage adaptation of Forgiveness. Photo credit: Moonrider Productions. In Forgiveness, Sakamoto explores...
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09 Mar 2023
Posted by James Heron 
Chieko Baisho (right) stars in director Chie Hayakawa's eerie and dark Plan 75. Photo credit: Plan 75/TIFF. Director Chie Hayakawa's superb first feature film opens with an eerily similar pre-credits scene, but the setting is a seniors' home. Cut to post credits, and we are a few years into the future....
Read more → 25 Jan 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Artists Annie Sumi and Brian Kobayakawa are the creators of Kintsugi, an anti-racist, interactive art installation at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre until March 17. TORONTO — In the heart of the Moriyama Nikkei Heritage Centre at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre sits a prewar treadle-powered...
Read more → 18 Jan 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Self-portrait #5 by Miya Turnbull. Japanese Canadian artist Miya Turnbull's solo exhibition, Inward, Outwards, runs at Acadia University Art Gallery until Feb. 7, 2023. Photo credit: Miya Turnbull. The exhibit's focal point is a wall featuring 100 of Turnbull's masks. The space is filled with...
Read more → 02 Nov 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Residuals (住み・墨) by Japanese Canadian choreographer and dance artist Shion Skye Carter runs at the Scotiabank Dance Centre from Friday, Nov. 4 to Saturday, Nov. 5. For tickets and more information, visit the Dance Centre's website. Photo credit: Lula-Belle Jedynak Carter began developing Residuals as...
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20 Oct 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Ichigo-Ichie 一期一会: One Time - One Meeting offered three unique tearoom experiences for visitors at Nuit Blanche at the JCCC on Oct. 1. Photo credit: Dr. Jonathan Eto. For the first time, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre joined in on the fun of Nuit Blanche, as hundreds of people dropped...
Read more → 18 Oct 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Ottawa-based dancer, choreographer and teacher Takako Segawa's new dance film, "Sho ga nai - It can't be helped," honours the Japanese Canadians sent to prisoner of war camps 80 years ago. Photo credit: Sarolta Gyoker. Called Sho ga nai – It can't be helped, Segawa was inspired by the use of the Japanese...
Read more → 27 May 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Hiro Kanagawa plays private eye Sam Shikaze in R. A. Shiomi's award-winning comic-mystery Yellow Fever. Presented by Firehall Arts Centre, Yellow Fever runs from May 28 to June 12. Photos courtesy: Firehall Arts Centre. Kanagawa will portray private eye Sam Shikaze in the award-winning play, Yellow...
Read more → 14 Apr 2022
Posted by Jonathan Eto 
Fans clung to every word as Japanese American singer-songwriter Mitski performed at the newly-renovated Massey Hall in Toronto on March 18. Photos by: Dr. Jonathan Eto. Mitski is known for her dramatic storytelling through movement and music, and fans cheered, cried, and hung on every note....
Read more → 13 Apr 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Dance artist Jennifer Aoki will be performing a work in progress of In The Woods created during Dance West Network's 2021/22 Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency at Simon Fraser University Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on April 20. For Aoki, this theme of discovery also carried into the artistic...
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