VIFF特別上映：万引き家族
VIFFで大人気の是枝監督、2018年カンヌ国際映画祭の最高賞パルムドールを受賞作「万引き家族」は愛と犯罪、涙、刺激の詰まったほろ苦い物語。 少女のゆり（佐々木みゆ）は、虐待を受けている実の家族が良いのか、犯罪者の家族が良いのか？治（リリー・フランキー）と妻の信代（安藤サクラ）が率いる家族の方が、良い選択のように思えるが、それでは物語は終わらない…
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President’s Message
Dear GVJCCA Members and Community, Hello and greetings from me, Judy Hanazawa as your new GVJCCA President. I again thank past President Lorene Oikawa...
Japanese-Canadian Working Group Briefs JCCCM
Coming To Terms With Rev. G.G. Nakayama’s Sexual Abuse Of Community Members by Alan Itakura The following article was published in the English Montreal...
Okinawan Kodama, A Celebration of the Heart, Soul and Spirit
沖縄の鼓魂 Okinawan Kodama: A Celebration of the Heart, Soul and Spirit On Friday, August 4, Metro Vancouver audiences will be treated to a feast of Okinawan...
What Lies Beneath the Surface is Deep
Undertow RM Greenaway A B.C. Blues Crime Novel (Dundern, 2017) review by Colleen Tsoukalas Undertow is Canadian, local to West Coasters and written by a...
Japanese Canadian Artist Directory in the Works
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser, naturalist, 1917. If Dreiser is right, then there will be much honey stored...
Community workshop on the effects of sexual abuse
On June 15, 2015 the Anglican Diocese of Calgary and New Westminster gave their apology to survivors, their families, friends and the Japanese Canadian...
Repeal C-51, the Anti-terrorist Act
Call on the Federal Government to Repeal C-51, the Anti-terrorist Act, 2015 by Kathy Shimizu and Judy Hanazawa The Anti-terrorist Act is like the...
JCCA President’s Message
I was putting the first tray of lemon meringue tarts into the oven when I glanced at my phone. There was a voice mail...
NISEI: THE GAMES WE PLAYED
Nisei growing up on Powell Streets in the 30s didn’t have that many toys so they had to improvise. Some boys picked chestnuts off...
Of Store and the Community
Part two of the series, Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians, by Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research...
Why I changed my name
I was born with a white man’s name. When I looked in the mirror, I never found a white person, nor a man. A mystifying misery of disconnection between what I saw in the mirror and what I felt like inside left me feeling very lonely. All I wanted to do was fit in and not have to contend with these feelings of alienation.
