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
28 Jul 2014
Posted by Cassandra Kobayashi 
A Tale for the Time Being moves across time and continents, exploring themes of life and death, through an ancient Zen Buddhist nun, a kamikaze's secret letters, a teen suicide, and the terrible 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Yet I did not find the book morbid, perhaps because I listened...
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24 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
When speaking with Kimura, 87, listening to him reflect back on his life, it's no wonder why he wrote an autobiography called, The Life of One Cherry Charlie: Philosopher, Poet and Pool Player, which was released Oct. 30, 2013. During World War Two, Kimura's family was forced to leave Vancouver....
Read more → 22 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Sugiyama, who's a Sansei, will be recognized, “for her achievements as a lawyer and for her extensive civic engagement.” The Order of Canada is one of the nation’s highest honours, meant to recognize outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. “We’re...
Read more → 21 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
UBC has offered to pay for Sugiyama and a guest’s flight, while letting him stay at the university, where he will fulfil his official enrolment in the school’s new Asian Canadian Studies program as an honoured guest. During his visit, he will be a registered student at UBC, where he was unable...
Read more → 17 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Alex Yanoshita led the charge, donating $100,000 to the three year-old campaign that has a goal of raising $2 million to help preserve the Momiji Community Centre that primarily serves senior Japanese Canadians at the Momiji elderly citizens home. The Momiji Health Care Society has now raised...
Read more → 15 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Canadian filmmaker, France Benoit is searching for the woman, "Kiri" and her family who the song Kiri's Piano by James Keelaghan is based on to show them the film she made after being moved by their story four years ago. It all started in 2010 when the Benoit and her husband were going on a trip...
Read more → 11 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
He’s a young Canadian making art outside Shibuya, Japan’s Time Square and Tokyo’s busiest intersections, attracting crowds to check out his latest work. “You’re in a sea of business men in suits, teenagers and then you see a white kid with a pen drawing. I like being a fish out of water,”...
Read more → 10 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Steps North of Yonge Dundas square at Ryerson University and underground in a small gym you can find the Ryerson Kendo club, carrying on the art of the sword. The class has grown since being founded five years ago by former Ryerson student Omer Hussain, who begged and pleaded to the Toronto Kendo...
Read more → 09 Jul 2014
Posted by Luke Galati 
Although he had impressed the Chicago Blackhawks scouts who came to watch him play throughout his season – seeing him rack up an impressive 64 points in 41 games – the Aurora teen knew they only had eight picks and there was some stiff competition. Sikura said that he didn't even expect to be picked,...
Read more → 09 Jul 2014
Posted by Matthew O'Mara 
Megumi Nishikura, left, and Lara Perez Takagi, right, produced and directed Hafu a film that discusses the mixed-race experience in Japan and the challenges that lie therein. Photo: Albert Siegel As a child of Japan and Spain, her mixed-race experiences have been “mixed” and her second documentary...
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