Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
“there is no stranger under the cherry tree” Kobayashi Issa, 1763 – 1827. Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival – Festival-at-a-Glance
Category: Commmunity
JCCA Keirokai 2014
The annual JCCA Keirokai luncheon was held January 18 at Nikkei Centre in honour of the seniors in our community. The afternoon was MC’ed...
Community Photo on Powell Street
On Sunday, February 2, Friends of 439 brought together members of various communities, including members of the Ming Sun Benevolent Society to celebrate new beginnings and...
Support Asian Canadian Studies Course at UBC
Support Asian Canadian Studies Course at UBC In a November 16, 2011 media release, UBC recognized the Japanese Canadian students who were expelled from...
Chinese Cultural Centre Reaches out to JC Community re: Apology to Chinese Canadians
The Chinese apology exercise currently in process began last March when news about the Liberal government’s controversial ethnic outreach strategy leaked out. The strategy...
Donated Dolls Revive Lost Japanese Culture
by Yusuke Tanaka Reiko’s Hina Dolls Directed by Komaki Matsui Original story by Yumiko Hoyano The average age of the nisei generation is easily...
Remembering Roy Kiyooka: 1926 – 1994
It was twenty years ago this January that Roy Kiyooka died suddenly and unexpectedly, leaving behind an incredibly diverse body of work that speaks to the restless creativity and curiosity that drove him over the course of his lifetime and his career as an artist.
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre – Twenty Years of Memories
by Tsuneko Kokubo (with ‘ghost writer’ Paul Gibbons) At just about the time that the Kyowakai Society of New Denver was being created, I...
Japanese songs, Thelonious Monk, & Satoko Fujii
The other day I started thinking about that deep feeling in Japanese folk and pop songs. Not that I’m an expert, because I don’t know a lot of Japanese songs, I don’t search for them, and I really didn’t learn any when growing up. Now, for the record, I do know some of the lyrics and melody of that old chestnut, Sukiyaki.
Meet Bill Kobayashi, the father of Canada’s iconic tabletop hockey game
Kobayashi’s path to becoming the father of Canada’s iconic tabletop hockey game was anything but direct. He first found work as a punch press operator, stamping parts for jewelry. To improve on his Grade 8 education, he enrolled at Sir George Williams College — now Concordia University — where he took chemistry, physics and math.
Are you Japanese Canadian? How do you know?
Identifying as Japanese Canadian is no longer the stigma it once was. Heck, some might even say we’re finally cool. After all, our roots go all the way back to the land of Hello Kitty, anime and sushi. What makes YOU Japanese Canadian? The Bulletin is compiling a list of the unique charactaristics that make us who we are.
New Denver: Memories Are Made Of These . . .
My first winter in New Denver …. COLD for sure but lots of snow and it stayed. I remember we made our own sleds and skis out of fresh lumber from trees cut in the mountains. Steel runners were attached to the sleds by a man who worked at a local machine shop in town.
