ensoku (field trip)
Kikiai Collaborative invites young folks of Japanese ancestry to a gathering in Vancouver this May with a focus on food, community dialogue and creative...
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The Tashme Project: The Living Archives
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...
Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world
Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world, a new exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, features personal perspectives on the exile, dispossession, and...
The Japanese Canadians of Ucluelet
by Paul Kariya I grew up here as a child and spent summers fishing with my father as a teenager but know so little...
Slocan Cemetery Japanese Monument Restoration Project
by Laura Saimoto & Rory Lindsay, past president of the Slocan Valley Historical Society In 2017, the Legacy Committee worked in partnership with the...
Honouring High Places: The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei
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”...
My Storie(s)
On Sunday, December 9, 2018, Tonari Gumi played host to a celebration luncheon in honour of the 30th Anniversary of Redress and 60th Anniversary...
The Rise and Fall of Hideki – a serialized mystery
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 Bulletin: sixty years and counting
The JCCA is you and I and all those others whose interests and lives may diverge in a thousand ways, yet who all have...
The Pain We Cannot Swallow
This article was originally published in Ricepaper Magazine. December 13th, 2018 marks eighty-one years since the Nanjing Massacre. “The Pain We Cannot Swallow” is...
Durational Taiko at Hastings Park
On September 29, I joined two dozen other taiko players in the livestock building at Hastings Park for Durational Taiko – a marathon drumming...
Farewell Interview with Consul General Asako Okai
One of the greatest assets I gained here in Vancouver is to get to know how to work with people on the ground. I was serving in headquarters and capitals. In this environment, you know the people you engage with. You expect a certain knowledge level from your counterparts, whether they’re in government or are diplomats. So it was the first time to work with ‘Real People’, citizens who live and DO NOT think like diplomats.
