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
Omote: A melding of artistic expressions and experiences
Suzanne Hartmann's hybrid memoir explores convergence of personal and community stories
01 Aug 2025
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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25 Jul 2025
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 → 07 Mar 2025
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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08 Aug 2024
Posted by Theresa Oye 
Minyo Workshop participants at JCAM centre in Winnipeg, June 21 to 23. Photo credits: Noriko Takahashi and Theresa Oye. Groups from Hamilton—with one member who now lives in Nanaimo—Calgary, Lethbridge, and Edmonton flew in, and the dancers from Thunder Bay drove to Winnipeg. Instructor Jean...
Read more → 22 Jul 2024
Posted by Anton Wagner 
Canada and the Atom Bomb Photo Exhibition at Toronto City Hall. The exhibition is open to the public in the Toronto City Hall Rotunda from Aug. 2 to 4 and 6 to 8. The exhibition precedes the HNDC’s Aug. 6 commemoration at the City Hall Peace Garden. This year’s commemoration theme is “Now is the Time:...
Read more → 23 May 2024
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Left: The cover of author Keiko Honda's memoir, Accidental Blooms. Photo courtesy: Caitlin Press. Right: Author, scientist, and artist Keiko Honda. Photo credit: Anton Fernando. When Vancouver-based scientist, writer, community organizer, and painter Keiko Honda first learned to paint, she would...
Read more → 22 May 2024
Posted by Ailin Oishi-Stamatiou 
JCCC volunteers receive Ontario Volunteer Service Awards. Some of the JCCC Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients (plus two JCCC volunteer coordinators on either end) at the award ceremony at the Royal Ontario Museum on April 15. Photo credit: Ailin Oishi-Stamatiou. The Ontario government's...
Read more → 17 Jan 2024
Posted by Paul Kariya 
Japanese Canadians in Ucluelet, 1941 or 1942. Photo credit: Mary Kimoto Collection. By Paul Kariya and Ian G. Baird The Japanese and others, over time, innovated with stainless steel, aluminum rigging, hydraulic pullers, and artificial lures. Compared to the urban style of crowded gillnet fishery...
Read more → 30 Nov 2023
Posted by Deanna Cheng 
Bailey Irene Midori Hoy dressed in a white kimono during a recent trip to Kyoto, Japan in May. Hoy is one of the two first graduate students to receive support from UBC's Japanese Canadian Students of 1942 Fund. Photo courtesy: Bailey Irene Midori Hoy. The university created the fund to champion...
Read more → 19 Oct 2023
Posted by Mata Ashita 
Erica H. Isomura (left) and Megan Kiyoko Wray (centre) join Nico Koyanagi (right) as the new facilitators and curators for the upcoming Mata Ashita season. Photos supplied. Celebrate the launch of Mata Ashita's new season with Yonsei writers Erica H. Isomura and Megan Kiyoko Wray. Erica and Megan...
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