Mayumi Lashbrook: navigating enemy lines
“As I worked on Enemy Lines, it was always a surprise the moments that would bring tears to my eyes. Seeing the address of...
Emi Sasagawa is an award-winning Brazilian-Japanese journalist living in Vancouver. Her work has been published by a range of publications, from The Washington Post...
When San Jose Taiko (SJT) performed at the 1979 Powell Street Festival, it set off reverberations that would end up echoing across the Japanese...
The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA), Tonari Gumi (TG), and the Vancouver Japanese Language School-Japanese Hall (VJLS-JH) would like to warmly welcome...
by John Endo Greenaway The seeds for BC Redress were planted 2012 with the Provincial apology led by former MLA Naomi Yamamoto. Beginning in...
by John Endo Greenaway Henry Shimizu was fourteen when he and the rest of the Shimizu family were uprooted. Unable to return to BC,...
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s 10th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival (TJFF) will be presented in a hybrid format from June 5 to 27,...
I’m listening to the My Sisters Knows Why podcast, where Ang and Claud are talking about mochi and its relationship to Japanese Canadian traditions and culture, before moving on to obon, and then the Japanese Canadian picnic at the Toronto Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.
I was honoured to serve as guest host for On Memory, Mythmaking, and Community Resilience. The theme of the session emerged out of recent work I have been doing and conversations I have been having.
On March 11, 2011, Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake that caused extensive damage to the Great Eastern region. The ensuing tsunami swallowed...
The second session of the Paueru Gai Dialogues was held online on Saturday, February 27, 2021. On Food & Culture for Community Building was...
I think mythologies are fundamental and vital to the story of a people. They’re like a river with countervailing currents of cohesion, division, hope,...
One day a number of years ago, while Grace Eiko Thomson was visiting her 84-year-old mother in the care home where she was living,...