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
30 Jul 2018
Posted by Karri Yano 
Toronto-based author talks about her writing process and new book. Photo courtesy: Kim Moritsugu. The book lifts the curtain on Hollywood television production, giving readers a glimpse at the scandalous drama and action behind the scenes. A suspense fiction, the story follows three ambition women...
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19 Jun 2018
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The book, which is published completely in Japanese, aims to teach a Japanese audience about vegan cooking (using no animal byproducts) as well as Canadian culture and cuisine. In her initial discussions with her Japanese publisher, Kirasienne, Ishii says the editor-in-chief was interested in learning...
Read more → 13 Jun 2018
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Kayla Isomura's photo exhibit opens at Nikkei National Museum. Photo courtesy: Kayla Isomura. She wondered what her grandparents and great grandparents packed when forced to leave for internment and in turn, wondered what she would pack today. “I never had the opportunity to meet them or hear...
Read more → 14 May 2018
Posted by Chris Hope 
Shihan Kei Tsumura receiving the Don Valley West Service Award for Outstanding Volunteer Contributions from JCCC Finance Chair, Chris Hope. Shihan Tsumura is one of the highest ranked practitioners of Shito-ryu Itosu-kai Karate in the world. For more than half a century he has shared his passion...
Read more → 20 Apr 2018
Posted by Karri Yano 
TORONTO — Mark Sakamoto’s family memoir, Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents won this year’s Canada Reads competition, CBC’s annual "battle of the books." Photo credit: Peter Power. Fashion journalist Jeanne Beker defended Sakamoto’s book. On CBC Radio's Q she explained why she chose...
Read more → 18 Apr 2018
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Brian McKeever (right) and guide Graham Nishikawa (left) collected their gold medals at the PyeongChang Olympic Plaza during the 2018 Olympic Games. Photo: Dave Holland/Canadian Paralympic Committee Though achieving that title was not something on McKeever's mind coming into the Games. The first...
Read more → 12 Mar 2018
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrors creates an unprecedented demand at the AGO. Yayoi Kusama. 'Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity,' 2009, Installation view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LED, black glass, and aluminum. Collection of the artist. Courtesy...
Read more → 12 Feb 2018
Posted by Judge Maryka Omatsu 
Last seeing each other 75 years ago, two Niseis look up to see each other across the table. Bill Kobayashi , JoAnne Maikawa and Donnie Shimotakahara, (Bill’s sister-in-law) at the special luncheon at Momiji Health Care Society. Photo credit: Judge Maryka Omatsu. Along with 300 Niseis, I waited...
Read more → 19 Jan 2018
Posted by Jordan Stanger-Ross 
Loyalty to the British Empire is taught to these second and third generation Japanese children in an Internment Camp in British Columbia circa 1942. Jordan Stanger-Ross, University of Victoria Three hundred protest letters written by Japanese Canadians in the 1940s were recovered from Canada’s...
Read more → 13 Nov 2017
Posted by Susan Yatabe 
These soldiers were students of the S-20 Japanese Language school in West Vancouver, and they were part of a group that was deployed to Southeast Asia in October 1945 to work for SEATIC (Southeast Asia Translator Interrogator Centre). They included five of the first six Nisei S-20 graduates; the six Nisei...
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