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
Past and present collide in dancer Takako Segawa's new performance
Artist Miya Turnbull reveals the layers beneath in new solo exhibition
JCAM's Aurora Dance Group hosts a weekend of friendship and fun through Japanese folk dance
The Hollow Man: JC artist looking for community feedback
Author Lynne Kutsukake explores the bustling art world of '70s Tokyo in The Art of Vanishing
20 Nov 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Columnist Caroline Ishii on learning how to be alone while living in the Japanese countryside. In leaving Ochi, many friends and colleagues wanted to say goodbye, take me out, give me gifts, and spend time with me. I wondered where all these people were when I was yearning for the company throughout...
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11 Nov 2020
Posted by Frank Moritsugu 
Nine Nisei Canadian Army sergeants in India in 1946, waiting to go home with the activities in Southeast Asia over. Front Row (left to right): Frank Moritsugu, Sid Sakanashi, Elmer Oike, and Edgar Iwamoto. Back Row: Jin Ide and Fred Kagawa (who visited Scotland together with Frank), Albert Takimoto,...
Read more → 19 May 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
What's not to love about the soft, squishy pillow of deliciousness? Photos courtesy: Caroline Ishii. I've had a lifelong passion for food. I was born into it, with a mother and father who loved food. My mother was an excellent home cook, who made delicious Japanese food. My father's experience...
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05 Mar 2020
Posted by Kaitlin Findlay 
A photo of George Tamaki in The New Canadian, the clipping comes from an issue published on May 14, 1941. Photo courtesy: Landscapes of Injustice. Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. This essay explores claim No. 3: Reasoning wrong. In the 1940s,...
Read more → 29 Feb 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The Canada Museum in Mio, Wakayama prefecture, is dedicated to telling the history of Japanese emigrants in Canada. In December, I was invited to visit Japan with a delegation of third and fourth generation Japanese Canadians to learn about Japanese culture and bring those lessons back to Canada....
Read more → 19 Feb 2020
Posted by Jordan Stanger-Ross 
Betty and Tak Toyota's wedding March 31, 1946. Photo courtesy: Joy Trapnell. ontinuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. This essay explores claim No. 4: Dispossession is permanent. The internment era was far too long—seven years—most of them...
Read more → 07 Feb 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Searching for my grandfather's grave site 70 years later. Photos courtesy: Caroline Ishii. Otomatsu Ishii, 29, left Japan aboard a merchant ship in 1902. In return for three years of hard labour building the Penticton Railway in B.C., my grandfather received his Canadian citizenship and made his way to Kingcome...
Read more → 20 Jan 2020
Posted by Frank Moritsugu 
Frank Moritsugu during his speech at the Nikkei Veterans Memorial and Luncheon at Toronto's Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Nov. 6. Photo credits: Kelly Fleck. The Bayview United Church service was an elaborate event, attended by 91 members this year. During that service I was the guest speaker....
Read more → 16 Jan 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Asking what it means to be Japanese Canadian while in Japan. Photos courtesy: Caroline Ishii. Growing up in Canada, I struggled with who I was because I didn't look like the other kids in my class. In high school, I was one of a handful of Asian students. Even being Canadian, I feel by the way others...
Read more → 14 Jan 2020
Posted by Lindsey Jacobson 
A portion of a hand drawn prisoner of war illustration found in the Nikkei National Museum collection. Artist unknown. See the full image below. We do not know who the artist of the drawing is, nor the intention behind its creation. But we can use the illustration to draw inferences about the lives...
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