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
16 Mar 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Artist Kellen Hatanaka explores historical and contemporary issues of race, xenophobia, and bias in sport. Left: Home, 2020, by Kellen Hatanaka. Right: Artist Kellen Hatanaka. Photo credit: Kiersten Hatanaka. But of course, the Vancouver Asahi never won a 1993 championship. The club disbanded...
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15 Mar 2022
Posted by James Heron 
Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yusuke Kafuku and Toko Miura as Misaki Watari in the four-time Oscar-nominated film, Drive My Car. The film follows Yusuke Kafuku, a renowned stage actor and director set to direct a theatre production of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at a Hiroshima festival....
Read more → 16 Feb 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Yume. Digital Dreams pairs up 14 artists to create exciting and experimental digital artwork. Eight of the 14 artists participating in Yume. Digital Dreams. Clockwise (starting at the top left): Experimental dancer Shion Skye Carter (Vancouver), electronic musician and flutist Hitoshi Sugiyama (Edmonton),...
Read more → 11 Feb 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck
Hidetoshi Nishijima stars as Yusuke and Toko Miura as Misaki in Drive My Car, a story about love, loss, acceptance and piece. Photo credit: Films We Like. The moving car is where characters' stories unravel, and their truths unveil in director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Oscar-nominated film, Drive My Car. “These...
Read more → 22 Dec 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Royal Winnipeg ballet principal dancers, Alanna McAdie, Chenxin Liu and Yue Shi, in Kimiko's Pearl: Digital Short. Photo credit: Bravo Niagara! Performed by the principal dancers of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet with original music and choreography, Kimiko's Pearl shines a spotlight on the Japanese...
Read more → 21 Dec 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Left: Pablo Picasso. Woman in Blue Shawl, 1902. Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 52.4 cm. Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. © Picasso Estate / SOCAN (2021). Right: Pablo Picasso. Woman and Child by the Sea, 1902. Oil on canvas, 81.7 x 59.8 cm. Pola Museum of Art. © Picasso Estate / SOCAN (2020), Photo:...
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16 Nov 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Ruth Ozeki's new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, explores loss, growing up, and our relationship to stuff. Left: Author Ruth Ozeki. Photo credit: Danielle Tait. Right: The Book of Form and Emptiness. Photo credit: Viking. For Ozeki, the question sparked questions of her own. Often for authors...
Read more → 10 Nov 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Artist Taka Sudo's murals can be found around Vancouver. Sudo will be participating in the 25th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl this November. Photo credit: @axiscreative. “Since the pandemic, the work I was making was not really commercial art, but it was more [personal]. I felt more honest about...
Read more → 27 Oct 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Wife of a Spy examines how war changes people; for some, it is a call to action, while others look away, and others use it as a chance to act brutally without consequence. Yu Aoi stars as Satoko and Issey Takahashi as Yusaku in director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film, Wife of a Spy. Photo credit: Films We Like. Kurosawa...
Read more → 13 Oct 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Yagira Yuya stars as Shu in the film, Gift of Fire. The JCCC will be screening a virtual presentation of the film from Oct. 22 to Oct. 24. Photo credit: Eleven Arts Studio. The film follows Shu, a young research student at Kyoto University on the research team commissioned by the Japanese government...
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