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
LiterAsian writers festival spotlights the diverse voices of Pan-Asian authors
Canada and the Atom Bomb photo exhibition at Toronto City Hall
Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Sumitsubo belonging to Kenichi Maeno
A ladder across the globe: Collaborative project connects Canadian and Japanese artist
18 Nov 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
An image from Randall Okita's new VR storytelling experience, The Book of Distance. Now available free on the Steam, Oculus and Viveport stores. Photo credit: NFB/Book of Distance. “He was a big part of my life, and he was also the quietest person I've ever met,” Okita tells Nikkei Voice in an interview....
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23 Oct 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
On understanding that cultural identity is more than fractions and mathematical equations. Part of the cover of artists Jeff Chiba Stearns and Lillian Michiko Blakey's new graphic novel, On Being Yukiko, set to release in early December. Photo courtesy: Jeff Chiba Stearns/Lillian Michiko Blakey. Artists...
Read more → 01 Oct 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Rena Narumi will be performing Proximity, with choreographer Joshua Beamish during Fall For Dance North's signature program on Oct. 3. Photo credit: Mikaela Kelly. Narumi, who is currently based in the Netherlands, will be participating in the signature program virtually. Performing Proximity with...
Read more → 12 Aug 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Sisters Emmie and Lisa Tsumura use art to share messages of hope. One of Emmie Tsumura's giant pigeons outside a No Frills in Toronto, thanking grocery store workers. Photo credit: Emmie Tsumura. Emmie, an artist working in illustration and graphic design, has been creating giant pigeons and placing...
Read more → 29 Jul 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow at the UN conference where the Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was adopted on July 7, 2017. Photo courtesy: Thea Mjelstad/ICAN. A hibakusha, Thurlow survived the nuclear bombing of her home, Hiroshima. She has dedicated the last 70 years of her life to advocating for the abolition...
Read more → 28 Jul 2020
Posted by Susan Yatabe 
In 1918, Tsune Yatabe volunteered at a Spanish Flu hospital. This photo shows members of the Womens’ Missionary Society at Powell Street Methodist Church, Vancouver, somewhere between 1922 to 1924. Photo courtesy: Shinobu Family Album. In 1918, Tsune had two young sons, Mas, 4, and Eiji, 18 months....
Read more → 21 May 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Masako at her 99th birthday last year, with her daughter, two granddaughters and five great grandchildren. Photo credit: Grace Tanaka. The rest of the day was filled with phone calls, flower deliveries, and a zoom video conference call with friends and family singing Happy Birthday, while she blew...
Read more → 15 Aug 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Yonsei embraces the philosophy of peace and harmony in beekeeping practices. Mariko Kawano with her rooftop apiary, Heiwa Honey, at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto. Heiwa means peace and harmony in Japanese and is the philosophy Kawano brings to her beekeeping. While showing...
Read more → 17 Jun 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
A photo taken of Jessica and Fukue when they were nine years old, in Saku, Japan. Photo courtesy: Ron Stuart. Nearly 30 years later, Stuart returned to Japan, this time with filmmakers Daniel Roher and Edmund Stenson, to find Fukue, in the CBC documentary, Finding Fukue. Listen to Jessica Stuart's...
Read more → 10 May 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Director Jason Lapeyre, Miho Suzuki, Zach Feldberg (CBC), Laura Schwartz (New Form Digital), Emily Piggford and producer Andrew Smith. © CANNESERIES / FRANCOIS SILVESTRE DESACY Suzuki stars as the villain, Sadako, in the new digital series, Warigami, produced by Toronto's First Love Films and the CBC,...
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