The Bulletin

Holiday Gift Guide

John Endo Greenaway December 4, 2013 | Leave a response

Started as a knitwear company by their parents in 1978, Granted Clothing is now run by siblings Brian and Amy Hirano. Their beautifully designed, 100% wool chunky-knit sweaters are locally knitted by hand and sold internationally. Each sweater takes 10 to 15 hours to make and features branded wooden zipper pulls made of salvaged yew wood from Lasqueti Island. Read More...
Terry Watada: Exploring JC History through Manga

John Endo Greenaway December 4, 2013 | Leave a response

Terry Watada is a poet, novelist, playwright, musician, recording artist, historian, activist, and teacher. Long-interested in the history of Japanese Canadians, he has explored the various facets of the community through his art, often tapping into little-known or talked-about stories …

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An Interview with Yosh Inouye

John Endo Greenaway December 4, 2013 | Leave a response

However, what has always distinguished Yosh — for me — is his interest in the community’s Sansei artists and political activists. For an Issei, this is unusual. Read More...
Reconciliation Appreciation Event

John Endo Greenaway December 4, 2013 | Leave a response

Members of the JCCA Human Rights Committee were honoured to participate in Reconciliation Week and then the appreciation event that took place on October 29, 2013, in Vancouver, traditional Coast Salish territory. Read More...
Remembering Michiko “Midge” Ayukawa

John Endo Greenaway December 4, 2013 | Leave a response

How do you begin to sum up the life of one of the most esteemed scholars on Japanese Canadian history? You do as Midge would have done, you assume the role of good researcher, and you reach out to connect with people whose lives intersected with hers. Read More...
Remembrance Day 2013 – Photo Gallery

John Endo Greenaway November 11, 2013 | Leave a response

Photos from this year’s Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial in Stanley Park. Read More...
In Search of Private Hikotaro Koyanagi

John Endo Greenaway November 9, 2013 | Leave a response

I recall Mrs Nishi telling me that a wounded soldier put out his hands to thank her at a Remembrance Day ceremony held at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial in Stanley Park. She thinks he could be the wounded soldier Hikataro had on his back when he stepped on the mine and got killed. This was in the thirties. Read More...
They went to war: Japanese Canadians and the battle for acceptance

John Endo Greenaway November 9, 2013 | 1 Response

In restoring the cenetaph, we will once again fulfill the hopes of Corporal Sainosuke Kubota, a veteran of the 50th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. On his last official function as the secretary of No 9 Legion (defunct) on September 30, 1958, he said… Read More...
City of Vancouver Apology

John Endo Greenaway November 9, 2013 | Leave a response

Japanese Canadian seniors were sitting in the packed City of Vancouver council chambers on the morning of September 25, 2013 to hear a long overdue apology.

“With humility and respect, the City of Vancouver formally apologizes for its complicity, its inaction, and for failing to protect her residents of Japanese descent.” Read More...

Midge’s House: Midge Ayukawa (nee Ishii) June 26, 1930 – October 24, 2013

She told me of her grief and pain when her husband died. His ghostly voice she claimed gave her comfort and strength in facing the challenges of the funeral arrangements. Read More...

York Prof Pens Book on Internment Impact on JC Women

“The racialization of Japanese Canadians as an enemy ‘race’ served to normalize the identity of a Canadian citizen as white. The web of power authorized through the War Measures Act enabled the making of white bourgeois subjects … Read More...

Young Leaders Conference

The Young Leaders Conference sparked from a youth meeting and digital storytelling workshop that happened at last year’s National Association of Japanese Canadian (NAJC) Annual General Meeting in Kamloops, BC. Read More...

NAJC Undertakes Survey of Immigrant Issues

As a child growing up in Regina, I remember my parents often welcomed newcomers from Japan to our home. My mother would miraculously prepare a tasty Japanese dinner from the “surprise” packages hidden away in her kitchen. Read More...

inReview: Medea

The fusion of Euripedes’ Greek tragedy Medea and the language, costumes and aesthetics of Japanese Noh drama may at first seem incongruous and unlikely. Read More...

opinion

Much controversy has surrounded Kogawa House. Many in the Nikkei community have heard cloaked accusations of sexual assaults on adolescent Japanese Canadian boys by Canon Goichi Nakayama of the Anglican Church. Read More...

Walk for Reconciliation, September 22, 2013

We finally made it to the end of the march where we were welcomed by the taiko drummers performing on stage and I was so happy that the Walk for Reconciliation organizers asked our community to join them in their celebration. Read More...

Memories of Dr. Midge Ayukawa

Before she completed her PhD Midge often participated in many of our museum & archival projects and activities around 1993. She joined a group of Japanese Canadian Nikkei … Read More...

A world of banjos in Bang Danjos

To celebrate the art of this versatile instrument, the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble presents Bang Danjos, showcasing three unique manifestations of the banjo. Read More...

Sgt. Masumi Mitsui – last of the issei veterans

When Sgt. Masumi Mitsui passed away on April 22, 1987 at the age of 100 years he was one of the last surviving Japanese Canadian volunteers of World War I. Read More...