Terry Watada: On Dreams, Mystery, and Writing What You Know
Mysterious Dreams of the Dead, Terry Watada’s latest novel, features Mike Shintani, a sansei (third-generation Japanese Canadian) who sets off to uncover the mystery...
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Kyowakai: Memory and Healing in New Denver, BC
Japanese Canadians began to arrive in New Denver on May 21, 1942, part of a wave of 22,000 internees forced out of a 100-mile...
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Focus on JC Books + JC Writers
With the holiday season and gift giving just around the corner in this most unusual of times, we present a selection of new and...
The Paueru Gai Dialogues
The Paueru Gai Dialogues Catalyzing Social Equity through Culture & Connection to Place To kick off the new year, the Powell Street Festival Society is launching an...
Excerpt: Mysterious Dreams of the Dead
Mysterious Dreams of the Dead Terry Watada Anvil Press Excerpt 1987 One of those rootless, forgotten nights. I leaned against the giving rail of...
A Totem Pole for Mio
Sammy Takahashi, president of the Japan-Canada Chamber of Commerce, was shopping at the Save-On-Foods on Marine Drive near his home in North Vancouver when...
Remembrance Day 2020: 100 years of memories
by Linda Kawamoto Reid One hundred years of people gathering at the cenotaph conjures up so many images, stories, emotions, and memories of tribute....
Migration, Displacement, and Redress: A Japanese Canadian Perspective
Migration, Displacement, and Redress: A Japanese Canadian Perspective by Tatsuo Kage Electromagnetic Print (2020), electromagneticprint.com/tatsuo-kage $25.00 CAD Book Review by Angela May (née Kruger) Tatsuo...
Plowing My Parents’ Landscape of Conscience
From the 1990s, my parents’ home became a meeting place and a regular lodging for various members of the Líl’wat Nation and many other indigenous leaders and representatives. My mother, a retired social worker, befriended many of these activists.
On Being Yukiko – a graphic novel
When acclaimed artists Jeff Chiba Stearns and Lillian Michiko Blakey decided to pool their considerable talents to create a graphic novel for young readers,...
Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment & Dispossession of Japanese Canadians – a review
by Judge Maryka Omatsu LANDSCAPES OF INJUSTICE: A New Perspective on the Internment & Dispossession of Japanese Canadians Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross McGill-Queens Press, 2020...
RM Greenaway: River of Lies
In 2014, Nelson resident Rachel Greenaway won the Arthur Ellis Unhanged award for best unpublished novel for her novel Cold Girl. The award led...
Remembrance Day 2020
Thanks to Veteran’s Affairs Canada, we are able to live stream the Remembrance Day service this year, and hope to reach more than the...
Miso Soup for the Soul: Kabochallah
Jewpanese Maple KaboChallah by Carmel Tanaka At the ripe old age of 27, I learned to bake my first challah. My teacher was none...
Miso Soup for the Soul: Obaachan’s Pickles
I remember the first time following Obaachan into the root cellar. It was cooler and dark. I could see different containers and jars of preserved vegetables and fruit. Obaachan was a tiny woman, but very strong.
