A familiar face in Nikkei film circles takes on a new challenge
WOMEN DIRECTORS DOMINATE TORONTO AND VANCOUVER FESTIVAL LINEUPS
Artist A.S.M. Kobayashi brings life to government documents in 'Electric Neon Clock'
Lifting the layers behind the mask: Miya Turnbull and Shion Skye Carter on 'Omote (面)'
Author Jeff Chiba Stearns brings yokai and folklore to Japanese Canadian history
South Side Samurai Munetaka Murakami rides into Toronto
Vancouver Japanese Film Festival launches in September
Miho Suzuki explores accent bias and identity in "The Improper Identity" at Toronto Fringe Festival
Kate Kamo McHugh retraces ancestors' journeys across Canadian landscapes
Author Keiko Honda on the stories we inherit and the ones we pass on
23 Jun 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Mariko Tajiri will be conducting three online sake seminars. TORONTO — Sake instructor and sommelier Mariko Tajiri has been introducing Canadians to the exciting and evolving world of Japan's national drink for 13 years. This June, Tajiri will be teaching a series of online introductory seminars on sake...
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22 May 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Bayview United Church starts offering Sunday service over the phone. The congregation at Bayview United Church on better days before the quarantine. Photo courtesy: Bayview United Church/Brian Kai. Starting on March 22, the North York church implemented teleconference Sunday services. Congregants...
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 → 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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08 May 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
New PBS docu-series explores personal histories of Asian Americans. Photo courtesy: WETA. Buddy Uno, the oldest of the 10 American-born Uno children, goes to Japan to work as a foreign correspondent, after being rejected by American publications because of his ethnicity. While in Japan, Buddy...
Read more → 06 Mar 2020
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
The redesigned Mitsubishi 2021 Mirage, hits Canadian dealerships in the late summer 2020. Photo credit: Dr. Jonathan Eto. “There's naturally a transition of consumers that are just gravitating out of cars, from compact cars or subcompact cars, to SUVs,” Steve Carter, marketing director of Mitsubishi...
Read more → 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,...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Itabashi Garden in Burlington is located behind the Tansley Woods Community Centre at 1996 Itabashi Way. The garden opened on Canada Day. Photo credit: Richard Mandelkorn Photography. Itabashi Garden, located behind the Tansley Woods Community Centre, is a blend of Japanese design elements with...
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....
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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...
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