A quartet comprised of Naomi Sato (sho) and local Japanese musicians Yuriko Nariya (koto), Kozue Matsumoto (koto) and Minoru Yamamoto (shakuhachi) will perform a concert of traditional Japanese music and contemporary Japanese/Canadian compositions.
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Eileen Kage might just be one of the busiest taiko players in the business. Vancouverites have seen her on-stage with Uzume Taiko, Sawagi Taiko, and LOUD, but in Brief Encounters 19, they’ll likely see her as they’ve never seen her before.
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“Where in Tashme did you live? Who lived with you? When did you arrive in Tashme? From where?” These are a few of the questions asked of former residents of Tashme where 2,300+ persons of Japanese ancestry were interned during …
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In early January I opened an email, and as I started to read it, my eyebrows lifted. It was from Mollie McArthur’s daughter, Sandra, asking whether I was Marion Fujino’s son, David.
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by Sanae Ohki
The organization that is today’s Edmonton Japanese Community Association (EJCA) has its beginning in 1947 when the National Japanese Canadian Citizen’s Association was formed. So, EJCA has 66 years of history. EJCA has held its Board meetings …
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It was indeed amazing that democracy was so efficient. Unfortunately, recent events may have coloured the democratic process.
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by Jacob Derksen
Japan has numerous traditional art forms that have survived into the 21st century. Some have remained if not static then at least very true to their original form. Others have developed in a more dynamic fashion and …
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The first Old Pond comic was created in 2007 and was published in Gong (journal of the French Haiku Association) a few months later, in 2008.
Created by Jessica Tremblay as a means of sharing her love of haiku in …
This article is the third in a series describing my journey of personal discovery initiated by my book Torn Apart.
During my early research on war-era Vancouver, I was dismayed to read what happened to students of Japanese heritage in …
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Did you know that former Greenwood athlete Eugene Peacosh (1966), was part of the famous Edmonton Oil Kings in the mid-60s that won the Memorial Cup twice along with famous players like Pat Quinn (’63), Glen Sather (’63) and …
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