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
Kimiko's Pearl album, featuring the ballet's original score, contends for two Juno Awards
The legacy of the Dantai: The Fraser River Fishermen’s Association
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
02 Oct 2014
Posted by James Heron 
And here are some of the highlights from 2014's Japanese selection and be sure to stay tuned as more reviews are on the way. TOKYO TRIBE If you are Sion Sono, auteur and enfant terrible of Japanese cinema, how do you top your own hyperbolically violent winner of TIFF’s 2013 People's Choice...
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22 Sep 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Featured image: Sam Bradd with the final product made at the Japanese Canadian Young Leaders Conference. VANCOUVER – Sam Bradd's markers take the chaos of a brainstorming session and helps them to flow in a way that does much more than just the average board-meeting-minutes. As a graphic recorder,...
Read more → 12 Sep 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
A number of thoughts crossed my mind. First of all Jerry is police officer with the Thunder Bay Police Services but the subject line of “Book” did not convey any sense of urgency or dire circumstance. Filled with curiosity I called Jerry. “Hello, Jerry,” I said. “It’s your cousin,...
Read more → 08 Sep 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
The film, directed by Ishii Yuya and starring Tsumabuki Satoshi, tells the true story of the legendary Japanese Canadian baseball team, The Vancouver Asahi. In the early 20th century, Japanese workers immigrated to Canada in search of a new life, but faced the hard realities of racial discrimination,...
Read more → 08 Sep 2014
Posted by nikkeistaff 
As the war got worse for the Japanese side, the Kamikaze corps were created to use suicide attacks to hit enemy targets. It was an effective strategy, but it was a move that meant certain death. The Eternal Zero is an adaptation of Japanese novelist Naoki Hyakuta’s book of the same name. The novel...
Read more → 02 Sep 2014
Posted by Lara Perez-Takagi 
Featured image: Lara Pérez-Takagi and Megumi Nishikura in Japan filming their documentary. I was born in Japan and have grown up in the US, Canada, Spain, Australia and Japan. I consider myself Spanish, Japanese and hafu. Currently I am touring my latest co-production, the documentary film “HAFU”-...
Read more → 25 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Behind America and Germany, Japan has the third largest international corporate presence in the city of 700,000. In June, Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion, 93, was given the Order of the Rising Sun in recognition for building strong relations between Canada and Japan. Currently in her final term...
Read more → 21 Aug 2014
Posted by nikkeivoice 
This year, Folklorama celebrated 45 years and the Japanese-Canadian community in Manitoba has been involved for most of those years. Celebrating the diversity of Canada and promoting cultural understanding is the mission of this festival. The Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba were one of the six founding...
Read more → 15 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
For Brook Soso, the character Glenn plays on the hit television show Orange is the New Black, it didn't take her character very long to realize that she doesn’t really fit in. In the popular Netflix exclusive series, Litchfield prison is racially divided and Glenn plays the only Japanese-American...
Read more → 13 Aug 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
It’s not every day that I have the chance to speak with someone who has lived through one of the most destructive events in human history, after all. As ‘Little Boy’ – the first atomic bomb ever used on a population – fell and then exploded 2000 feet above the ground in Hiroshima, Sestuko...
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