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
19 Sep 2019
Posted by Frank Moritsugu 
Frank Moritsugu presenting the Nisei Veterans' Award to Kennedy Liddle for her work in odori at Arigato Day at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Aug. 25. Photo credit: JCCC Mind you, that view might be biased, because for recent years I've had a role at Arigato Day. This was the 13th year...
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18 Sep 2019
Posted by Emily Putnam 
Carleton's art gallery launches collaborative new exhibitions. Installation view of Cindy Mochizuki’s Sue Sada Was Here at the Roedde House Museum in Vancouver, BC for the exhibition Memories of the Future III (2018). Photo credit: Rachel Topham Photography. As the curator and co-curator of two upcoming...
Read more → 16 Sep 2019
Posted by Danielle Canhoto 
Toronto FC soccer star Tsubasa Endo meets with fans after a tied game with Orlando City on Aug. 10 at BMO Field in Toronto. TORONTO — It was a chilly evening for the Toronto Football Club (TFC) who set out to play Orlando City on Aug. 10. For some fans, it was just another game, but for the Japanese...
Read more → 10 Sep 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Support Our Kids and Spiral Garden spend the day communicating through art. Support Our Kids Japanese students and Spiral Garden campers in front of the flag they decorated together with their colourful handprints. Spiral Garden is a summer day camp for children with and without physical disabilities...
Read more → 28 Aug 2019
Posted by Karri Yano 
A trip to Hong Kong lights the spark for author Leslie Shimotakahara's new book, Red Oblivion. Photo courtesy: Dundurn Press. When sisters Jill and Celeste Lau reunite with their father, they barely recognize the unconquerable self-made man. His housekeeper says his collapse followed the anonymous...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Growing up, Sarah Kuhn rarely saw characters that looked like her, now she changing that. Growing up as a hapa, Japanese American, Kuhn rarely saw characters that looked like her in the stories she loved, sci-fi/fantasies or romantic comedies. Even more rare were stories where Asian girls and women...
Read more → 26 Aug 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
This Time Will Be Different explores how mistakes from the past trickle down through generations. Pictured above, the cover of Misa Sugiura's new book, This Time Will Be Different. Around the same time, Sugiura attended her Japanese Canadian uncle's funeral. She discovered he was named after Mackenzie...
Read more → 23 Aug 2019
Posted by Melissa Kawaguchi 
Chieri Uegaki's new book, Ojiichan's Garden, was inspired by questions she wishes she asked her father. Uegaki is the author of Ojiichan's Gift, as well as other children's books like Suki's Kimono, Rosie and Buttercup, and Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin. She visits her grandfather in Japan every...
Read more → 22 Aug 2019
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Kyo Maclear's new book, It Began With a Page How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way. Text by Kyo Maclear / Illustration by Julie Morstad / Courtesy Tundra Books. Fujikawa began with a blank page and created children's books that imagined a bigger, better world, away from societal constraints of race and gender....
Read more → 21 Aug 2019
Posted by Scott Luk 
One of the models at the Kimono Fashion Show, hosted by Kimono Bijin at Anime North on May 25. Photo credit: Scott Luk. Anime North is Toronto's premier anime convention, held annually at the Toronto Congress Centre. This year was no exception and the ever-growing love of anime has subsequently...
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