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
The lasting legacy of Frank Moritsugu, 1922 - 2025
Japanese Canadian veterans street banners in Vancouver
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
11 Feb 2026
Posted by nikkeivoice 
Tetsuo and Terry receiving the Dealer Achievement Award in 1958. Photo courtesy: Susan Chong. Tetsuo Sakaki was born on Apr. 19, 1905, in Fukuoka, Japan. His parents, Sarugoro and Toku Sakaki, had four sons and one daughter. Tetsuo, at the young age of 16, immigrated to Canada alone in 1921 by boat,...
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21 Nov 2025
Posted by James Heron 
Shannon Gorman and Brendan Fraser in RENTAL FAMILY. Photo by James Lisle/Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved. This is down to Hikari, the Japanese director and screenwriter behind the project. Her films include 37 Seconds and episodes of Tokyo Vice and Beef, and she clearly...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
What if the most powerful story you ever learned was the one your family never told you? Mandy Shintani with the sword her father, George, held onto for almost 80 years. The sword now has a new home at the Nikkei National Museum. Photo courtesy: Mandy Shintani. On rare occasions, her father would...
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Posted by James Heron 
A strong selection of Japanese films at TIFF and VIFF this fall. Clockwise: Saikai Paradise, ©KEIKO TSURUOKA. Renoir, ©Renoir Loaded Films. Kohuko, ©Shuichi Yoshida/ASP ©2025 "KOHUKO" Film Partners. KOKUHO (TIFF and VIFF) Kokuho has become an unexpected phenomenon at the Japanese box office,...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Highlighting the career and lasting legacy of the late Frank Moritsugu, a journalist, war veteran, and advocate. Frank Akira Moritsugu died peacefully on May 19, 2025, in the palliative care ward at Etobicoke General Hospital, at the incredible age of 102. Moritsugu was still a teenager when...
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Posted by Debbie Jiang 
Help be a part of history with the Veterans Street Banner Program. This October, Canadians will have the chance to see Tom Shoyama honoured on a special street banner in downtown Vancouver. Along with hundreds of other Canadian veterans, his banner will be displayed during the Remembrance season,...
Read more → 18 Mar 2025
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Kevin Lau's Kimiko's Pearl Symphonic Suite makes its world premiere with the Toronto Symphony Opera. Artwork above: Norman Takeuchi, Kimiko’s Pearl - Epilogue (detail), 2024, acrylic on canvas. Photo courtesy: Norman Takeuchi. The ballet centres around a teenage girl named Kimiko, who discovers...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
JCCC Past President recognized with the imperial decoration on Sept. 12. Gary Kawaguchi with his wife, Gayle, and Consul-General Takeshi Matsunaga during the ceremony at his official residence. Photo credit: Consulate General of Japan in Toronto. The prestigious imperial decoration recognizes...
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28 Feb 2025
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Visual artist and mask maker Miya Turnbull and dance artist and choreographer Shion Skye Carter perform Omote (面), which makes its Eastern and Western Canadian premiere in Halifax on Feb. 28 and March 1, and in Vancouver on March 12 and 14. Photo courtesy of the artists. Turnbull is a Yonsei...
Read more → 20 Jan 2025
Posted by Andrea Sakiyama Kennedy 
Suzanne Hartmann discusses new hybrid memoir, The Nail That Sticks Out, exploring personal and community stories. At once both deeply personal and solidly grounded in researched historical fact, Hartmann skillfully weaves together an account of the joys and the challenges she faced growing up half-Asian...
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