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29 February 2012 5:52 PM | No Comments - One Year Later: Shaken But Not Broken
29 February 2012 5:45 PM | No Comments - The Nekaa Room: Dark Matter
29 February 2012 5:41 PM | No Comments - WORLD TELEVISION PREMIERE: STOLEN MEMORIES
29 February 2012 5:37 PM | No Comments - Community Calendar
10 February 2012 11:41 AM | No Comments - First Anniversary of Tohoku Earthquake/tsunami
10 February 2012 11:36 AM | No Comments - Notice of Special General Meeting
10 February 2012 11:19 AM | 1 Comment - Cinema Kabuki Returns to Vancouver after Sold-Out Run
10 February 2012 11:01 AM | No Comments - Changing Tides: A Collective Photo Exhibit of Tohoku
14 January 2012 9:30 AM | No Comments - chelfitsch: cutting-edge Japanese theatre at the Push Festival
13 January 2012 9:13 PM | No Comments
- Vancouver International Dance Festival
Back Issues by Month
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- Mixed Match: a matter of race
02 April 2012 2:16 PM | No Comments - Susan Aihoshi: on family, history + finding a new voice
02 April 2012 12:31 PM | No Comments - Addressing Injustice: UBC’s Response to the Internment
02 April 2012 12:21 PM | No Comments - Mary Kitagawa: Speech to UBC symposium, march 21
31 March 2012 1:53 PM | No Comments - A Degree of Justice (video)
27 March 2012 12:00 PM | No Comments - Fumiko Greenaway: a son remembers
29 February 2012 6:09 PM | No Comments - Vancouver International Dance Festival
29 February 2012 5:52 PM | No Comments - Return to Matsuyama
29 February 2012 5:49 PM | No Comments - One Year Later: Shaken But Not Broken
29 February 2012 5:45 PM | No Comments - Profile: Nathan Hirayama
10 February 2012 11:12 AM | No Comments
- Mixed Match: a matter of race
02 April 2012 2:16 PM | No Comments - The Difference Between Travelling Solo and Travelling Alone
02 April 2012 2:10 PM | No Comments - a matter of identity
02 April 2012 2:10 PM | No Comments - President’s Message
02 April 2012 2:08 PM | No Comments - Community Kitchen
02 April 2012 2:07 PM | No Comments - Susan Aihoshi: on family, history + finding a new voice
02 April 2012 12:31 PM | No Comments - Addressing Injustice: UBC’s Response to the Internment
02 April 2012 12:21 PM | No Comments - Mary Kitagawa: Speech to UBC symposium, march 21
31 March 2012 1:53 PM | No Comments - A Degree of Justice (video)
27 March 2012 12:00 PM | No Comments - Guest Post – WATCH: Japan, One Year Later
12 March 2012 9:49 AM | No Comments
- Solidarity Spring Roars
Mary Kitagawa: a degree of justice - Stan Fukawa
JCCA - lyndsay
Community Kitchen Classic - Sally Ito
memories of my mother - Dan Tokawa
Notice of Special General Meeting - nilam
REVIEW: School Days With A Pig - Kagan Goh
JCCA
Art Miki cartoon Chibi Taiko Community Kitchen with Satoye Kita Dream of Justice Achieved Editorial by John Endo Greenaway fishing Giorgio Magnanensi hapa Human Rights Committee January 2008 Japantown Multicultural Neighbourhood Celebration Jeff Chiba Stearns Katari Taiko Kyowakai Society Letter to the Editor Marginalia Masaki Watanabe Masako Fukawa milestones multi-cultural New Denver Nikkei Fishermen on the BC coast: Their Biographies and Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre O-shogatsu obituaries Oppenheimer Park Powell Grounds Powell Street Festival Redress Redress Settlement Roy Kiooka Roy Kiyooka Roy Miki The Bulletin turkey soup Uzume Taiko Vancouver Folk Music Festival Vancouver Moving Theatre Vancouver New Music Vancouver New Music Society VIFF wakumi Yellow Sticky Notes yosenabe - Mixed Match: a matter of race
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Art Miki cartoon Chibi Taiko Community Kitchen with Satoye Kita Dream of Justice Achieved Editorial by John Endo Greenaway fishing Giorgio Magnanensi hapa Human Rights Committee January 2008 Japantown Multicultural Neighbourhood Celebration Jeff Chiba Stearns Katari Taiko Kyowakai Society Letter to the Editor Marginalia Masaki Watanabe Masako Fukawa milestones multi-cultural New Denver Nikkei Fishermen on the BC coast: Their Biographies and Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre O-shogatsu obituaries Oppenheimer Park Powell Grounds Powell Street Festival Redress Redress Settlement Roy Kiooka Roy Kiyooka Roy Miki The Bulletin turkey soup Uzume Taiko Vancouver Folk Music Festival Vancouver Moving Theatre Vancouver New Music Vancouver New Music Society VIFF wakumi Yellow Sticky Notes yosenabe
CrossCurrents with Masaki Watanabe Archive
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The Difference Between Travelling Solo and Travelling Alone
Posted on April 2, 2012 | No Comments‘Life is a journey,’ or so they say. This is not just in the metaphysical sense, I believe. It is also about our actual physical movements over the years from one country, city or locality to another, and even about short family holidays or business trips. -
The Kids Are Now on Their Own – Sentiments of a Parent “Left Behind”
Posted on February 12, 2012 | No CommentsA little while ago, I came across a certain work of art in a magazine, checked it out on YouTube and was extremely moved. It took me several days to... -
Why I Like Michael J. Fox Even More
Posted on January 13, 2012 | No CommentsI’ve always liked actor Michael J. Fox, from long before I moved here from Singapore back in 1997, because of his personality that I perceived in his TV sitcom (Family Ties 1982-89) and movies (e.g. Back to the Future trilogy 1985-90) characters. There was this savvy but personable air about him that I found particularly engaging. -
How I Love “Them Taxi Drivers!” Anecdotes from years past in many cities
Posted on November 30, 2011 | No CommentsAs the year 2011 draws to a close—and how quick it was!—and 2012 is about to begin, I thought I’d zoom out of the usual realm of “issues concerning our... -
Mixed Marriages & How to Enjoy Life in Canada
Posted on November 7, 2011 | No CommentsIn today’s Canada, especially in a mutli-racial environment like greater Vancouver, mixed marriages involving Nikkei Canadians and ijusha are nothing unusual.?A year ago I reported in this column that more... -
CrossCurrents
Posted on October 3, 2011 | No CommentsBent on some crazy mission to save that fleeting illusion, if only for naïve, dream-struck kids, yours truly must confess here and now to having resorted once or twice to the “urban-guerrilla-street-art-like” tactic of quickly and surreptitiously transferring that ugly placard from the seat to the top of the piano. Apparently someone (a security guy?) does check, because once I casually sauntered by later to look, and the placard had been put back on the seat, as if to proclaim: “We’re in charge here!" -
What’s In A Name? Different Ways the “East and West” Handle it in Daily Life and Business
Posted on June 9, 2011 | No CommentsPeoples of all races must, I would assume, customarily attach a lot of importance to personal names—usually a surname and given name (though not in all cultures, e.g. the Javanese... -
Japan’s Recovery: will a post-disaster generation take over from the post-war generation?
Posted on May 17, 2011 | No CommentsThe massive destruction wrought by the great Tohoku earthquake of March 11 and the waves of tsunami it triggered, together with the risk of radioactive contamination due to damaged reactors... -
Crosscurrents: “Ganbare Nippon” Now More Than Ever
Posted on April 13, 2011 | No CommentsThis spring, as usual, the splendid cherry blossoms Vancouver is famous for adorn our streets and parks. But this time, their beauty brings out all the more the sadness we... -
Deteriorating Vernacular of The Young Can’t Handle Abstract Thought.
Posted on March 9, 2011 | No CommentsHave you ever had the experience of trying to explain to non-Nikkei friends words like gaman, ganbaru, shikataganai—common Japanese expressions . . . -
“Open Letter” to Son Studying in Japan: Things I Must Tell You …Though You (Think) You’ve Heard ’em All
Posted on February 18, 2011 | 1 CommentAnd, this you’ve heard me say before, Japan is a very densely-layered ancient society with rich culture (e.g. variety of food) with strongly-held, complex values with constant, built-in pressure toward conformity that sometimes works in unfathomable ways. I’ve watched sensitive foreigners who want to gain acceptance, including those who are racially Japanese, even start seeing things and thinking like a Japanese without quite realizing it themselves. -
Of Ramen, Japanese Major Leaguers and the “Face of Japan” to the Outside World—Topics That May Loom Large in the Year 2011
Posted on January 10, 2011 | No CommentsAkemashite omedetoo gozaimasu. As we begin the year 2011, I pondered which topics might emerge this year that might be of general interest to us in the Nikkei/ijusha community, particularly...
