Category Editorial

by John Endo Greenaway

編集後記 2018年5月

Kazuho Yamamoto  八重桜(牡丹桜)の時期になりました。私の住んでいる地域にも結構木があるので春の訪れを感じさせてくれます。赤く色づいた葉っぱを見ると桜餅を思い出してよだれがダラ〜、なのは私だけでしょうか(笑)

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編集後記 2018年3月

Kazuho Yamamoto  ドキュメンタリー映画監督として知られている日系カナダ人のグレッグ・マスダさん。パウエル祭とDTESコミュニティーの関わりを描いた『Sprit of Nihonmachi』やリドレス運動の活動家のインタビューをまとめた『Children of Redress』など記憶に新しいです。

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The Taste of Home

It was once known as the Powell Street Grounds, later changed to Oppenheimer Park, after Vancouver’s second mayor, David Oppenheimer. Depending on what website you’re looking at, it was opened in 1898 or 1902. From the latter part of the…

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Digging Deep

When I was young I had little or no interest in Japanese (or Japanese Canadian) history or culture. I knew my mum was Japanese, or at least her parents were – they spoke very little English. But my mother spoke…

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The Power of Sport

There’s no getting around it – I have always sucked at sports.  Baseball? Nope. I got hit with a line drive while playing in the field behind our house when I was nine, knocking the wind out of me and…

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Spirit of the Nisei

Living as we are in the digital age, it is easy to not only communicate superficially with someone but actually engage in a longterm  professional relationship without ever meeting face-to-face or even speaking on the phone. As a case in…

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