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
JAPAN SENDS ITS BEST TO TIFF AND VIFF 2025
Suzu Hirose shines in two films coming to Canada this autumn
04 Nov 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Property. It’s something lost by all who were forcibly evacuated as Enemy Aliens, although the size and shape of what was taken is always different. From fishing boats, businesses, and homes; heirlooms, treasures, and memories, they were all part of the Canadian government’s systematic dismantlement...
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21 Oct 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
There are many Japanese people learning English in Toronto, but there are many Canadian learning Japanese. While many might know a few words here or there from manga and anime, a few will go on to learn just how difficult the language is. However, there's a scale out there to help measure how proficient...
Read more → 12 Sep 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
A number of thoughts crossed my mind. First of all Jerry is police officer with the Thunder Bay Police Services but the subject line of “Book” did not convey any sense of urgency or dire circumstance. Filled with curiosity I called Jerry. “Hello, Jerry,” I said. “It’s your cousin,...
Read more → 02 Sep 2014
Posted by Lara Perez-Takagi 
Featured image: Lara Pérez-Takagi and Megumi Nishikura in Japan filming their documentary. I was born in Japan and have grown up in the US, Canada, Spain, Australia and Japan. I consider myself Spanish, Japanese and hafu. Currently I am touring my latest co-production, the documentary film “HAFU”-...
Read more → 25 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Behind America and Germany, Japan has the third largest international corporate presence in the city of 700,000. In June, Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion, 93, was given the Order of the Rising Sun in recognition for building strong relations between Canada and Japan. Currently in her final term...
Read more → 13 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
It’s not every day that I have the chance to speak with someone who has lived through one of the most destructive events in human history, after all. As ‘Little Boy’ – the first atomic bomb ever used on a population – fell and then exploded 2000 feet above the ground in Hiroshima, Sestuko...
Read more → 28 Jul 2014
Posted by Cassandra Kobayashi 
A Tale for the Time Being moves across time and continents, exploring themes of life and death, through an ancient Zen Buddhist nun, a kamikaze's secret letters, a teen suicide, and the terrible 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Yet I did not find the book morbid, perhaps because I listened...
Read more → 18 Jul 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
Article nine of Japan's constitution, also known as the "Peace Constitution" states that the Japanese people should aspire to maintain international peace based around justice and order. It also states that Japan must give up its right to use force on land, at sea and in the air to solve conflicts. That...
Read more → 09 Jun 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
Nakanishi is a professor of urban and regional planning at University of Canberra, and she recently worked with the Junposha Co. to translate the book Surviving the 2011 Tsunami: 100 Testimonies of Ishinomaki Area Survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake. She wanted to translate the book...
Read more → 06 May 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
When this book comes out, will Bradley and his family be safe? As a mother, it was her main concern as she knew the overnight bestseller would drag IEX Group’s CEO – and her son – Brad Katsuyama into the media spotlight. “It seems like a dumb question, but I know because of what he was going...
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