On Friday, October 11, Metro Vancouver audiences will be treated to a feast of Okinawan drum-dancing featuring eisa, Ryukyu shishimai (lion dance) and wadaiko as Chijinshu Wakatiida and special guests Hidekatsu & Mion, take over the stage of the Michael J Fox Theatre in Burnaby.
ensoku 2019 brings young Japanese Canadians and Americans together in unprecedented Vancouver event photos by Kayla Isomura Over the May long weekend, 40 young-ish...
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre selects new Executive Director The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre was opened on September 22, 2000. Part of...
Sitting at the mouth of the Fraser River, the village of Steveston, although technically part of Richmond, BC, retains a unique small town flavour....
Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world, a new exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, features personal perspectives on the exile, dispossession, and...
Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra presents Global Soundscapes Festival When the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra was formed in 2000 under founding artistic director Moshe Denburg its stated...
Ikue Mori Jim Black Duo TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Ikue Mori is “one of the most singular musicians in modern music history” (Chicago...
Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double at TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Tomas Fujiwara is a Brooklyn-based drummer and composer who has been described as “a...
KAO (a.k.a. SleeplessKao) 諸事情により日本に一時帰国しています。元号が『平成』から『令和』に変わる瞬間を日本で体験。なんでも新しい元号は日本の古典から引用したそうでまだ賛否両論。
Kikiai Collaborative invites young folks of Japanese ancestry to a gathering in Vancouver this May with a focus on food, community dialogue and creative...
Last year I caught, quite by accident, a truly unique episode of Bonanza. The second longest-running television western (Gunsmoke being the longest) was on-air from 1959 to 1973.
When Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa first in 2009 as members of the English Theatre acting company at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, they...
by Paul Kariya I grew up here as a child and spent summers fishing with my father as a teenager but know so little...
Junko Tabei was born in Miharu, north of Tokyo, in 1939. A pioneering mountaineer and lover of peaks, she founded Japan’s “Ladies Climbing Club”...
On Sunday, December 9, 2018, Tonari Gumi played host to a celebration luncheon in honour of the 30th Anniversary of Redress and 60th Anniversary...
He went up, up, up, like one of his beautiful balloons. Then all the air went out of him and he came crashing back...
The JCCA is you and I and all those others whose interests and lives may diverge in a thousand ways, yet who all have...
