John Endo Greenaway

Michael Prior: Burning Province

I remember the first time my grandparents, my sister, and I drove by where Tashme used to be on our way into the interior to visit my father’s parents and someone pointed it out. I remember, too, distinctly thinking that “Tashme,” was a Japanese word

Things I Do For Money: Warren P Sonoda goes home to Hamilton

Eli and Nick Yaguchi, two Japanese Canadian cello-playing brothers from Hamilton, Ontario inadvertently steal a bag of money from a horrific crime scene. Trouble ensues when a Vancouver-based hit man, who turns out to be their estranged uncle Just Jimmy, shows up on the scene.

In the Shadow of the Pines – a new film by Anne Koizumi

In the Shadow of the Pines, a new animated short documentary by Anne Koizumi, explores the difficult relationship between the filmmaker and her father. Koizumi, a second-generation Japanese Canadian, draws on childhood memories to explore the idea of shame and how it can shape and define us, while also concealing who we can truly become.

Tracing Lines in Strathcona

Unlike many Japanese Canadians, I have no ties to the prewar BC community, no extended family – no cousins, second cousins uncles, aunts –...