John Endo Greenaway

Sansei: The Storyteller

Stories are powerful magic… in my opinion, they are the quickest way to respect. I love language and I am a big word nerd,...

My Sister Know Why Podcast

I’m listening to the My Sisters Knows Why podcast, where Ang and Claud are talking about mochi and its relationship to Japanese Canadian traditions and culture, before moving on to obon, and then the Japanese Canadian picnic at the Toronto Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.

Paueru Gai Dialogues #3 – reflections

I was honoured to serve as guest host for On Memory, Mythmaking, and Community Resilience. The theme of the session emerged out of recent work I have been doing and conversations I have been having.

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...

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...

Randall Okita’s The Book of Distance

It’s an experience that is hard to describe, there are so many layers to interacting with a story that is this personal, intergenerational, and marked in parts with silence. In some ways, retelling is reliving