Japanese Canadian Artist Directory in the Works
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser, naturalist, 1917. If Dreiser is right, then there will be much honey stored...
The Bulletin
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Santa Ono – creating new knowledge + making a difference at UBC
His blog is called Letters from Santa, he favours bow ties, plays the cello (well), and has an engaging smile and personality. He also...
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Alejandro Yoshizawa: crossing oceans + cultures in All Our Father’s Relations
How you identify culturally is almost an internal dialogue with yourself. But an eye-opener for me while making All Our Father’s Relations was how...
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Odd Society: celebrating collective oddities on Powell Street
Behind the bar at the Odd Society on Powell Street, Mia Glanz wields a pair of cocktail shakers like oversized maracas, the ice creating...
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A Steveston Beginning: remembering my mother – new works by Judy Nakagawa
Visitors to the second floor of the Nikkei Centre in Burnaby will be familiar with a sculpture hanging over an opening in the floor....
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VIFFインタビュー：小松 孝・渡部直也・野辺ハヤト
バンクーバー国際映画祭（VIFF）での第1回目の上映を終えた小松孝さん（『Out of the Frying pan…・食卓』ディレクター）、渡部直也さん（『Out of the Frying pan…・食卓』役者）、野辺ハヤトさん（『Affordance』ディレクター）にお話を伺いました。
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VIFF：Suffering of Ninko・仁光の受難
「Suffering of Ninko」を観終わって作り手のその才能に圧倒された。ストーリーが面白いのは当然のことなのだけれど、（ストーリーは僧侶と 人斬りと妖怪が おりなす、百物語の一編。）自主制作の域を超えたクオリティの高さ。
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Seeking Nominations: Japanese Canadian Historical Sites
In 2015, the BC Government launched a pilot program to identify places of historic significance to Chinese Canadians, resultng in the addition of 21...
What Lies Beneath the Surface is Deep
Undertow RM Greenaway A B.C. Blues Crime Novel (Dundern, 2017) review by Colleen Tsoukalas Undertow is Canadian, local to West Coasters and written by a...
Immigration Faux Pas in Canada
Manzo Nagano is credited with being the first Japanese settler in Canada in 1877, though he was not the first to come to BC....
Nisei: Nikkei connection to McLean Mill
Did you know that there was a very small settlement of Japanese Canadians at the McLean Mill in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in...
Forget How Good or Bad your Japanese/English Is – Do Tackle a Third Language
Akemashite omedetoo gozaimasu and a Happy New Year to all you readers out there. You are a source of great inspiration for me as...
Community workshop on the effects of sexual abuse
On June 15, 2015 the Anglican Diocese of Calgary and New Westminster gave their apology to survivors, their families, friends and the Japanese Canadian...
Mio-Steveston Fishermen Dialect
Whenever you hear of Mio, a poor, small fishing village south-east of Osaka in Wakayama-ken, the name ‘Amerika Mura’ comes to mind. To the...
President’s Message
The results of the presidential election in the USA were shocking to everyone including, I think, the president-elect. The political pundits have been providing...
Repeal C-51, the Anti-terrorist Act
Call on the Federal Government to Repeal C-51, the Anti-terrorist Act, 2015 by Kathy Shimizu and Judy Hanazawa The Anti-terrorist Act is like the...
JCCA President’s Message
I was putting the first tray of lemon meringue tarts into the oven when I glanced at my phone. There was a voice mail...
NISEI: THE GAMES WE PLAYED
Nisei growing up on Powell Streets in the 30s didn’t have that many toys so they had to improvise. Some boys picked chestnuts off...
Of Store and the Community
Part two of the series, Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians, by Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research...
Why I changed my name
I was born with a white man’s name. When I looked in the mirror, I never found a white person, nor a man. A mystifying misery of disconnection between what I saw in the mirror and what I felt like inside left me feeling very lonely. All I wanted to do was fit in and not have to contend with these feelings of alienation.
