The Tashme Project: The Living Archives
When Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa first in 2009 as members of the English Theatre acting company at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, they...
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Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world
Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world, a new exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, features personal perspectives on the exile, dispossession, and...
The Japanese Canadians of Ucluelet
by Paul Kariya I grew up here as a child and spent summers fishing with my father as a teenager but know so little...
Slocan Cemetery Japanese Monument Restoration Project
by Laura Saimoto & Rory Lindsay, past president of the Slocan Valley Historical Society In 2017, the Legacy Committee worked in partnership with the...
Honouring High Places: The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei
Junko Tabei was born in Miharu, north of Tokyo, in 1939. A pioneering mountaineer and lover of peaks, she founded Japan’s “Ladies Climbing Club”...
My Storie(s)
On Sunday, December 9, 2018, Tonari Gumi played host to a celebration luncheon in honour of the 30th Anniversary of Redress and 60th Anniversary...
The Rise and Fall of Hideki – a serialized mystery
He went up, up, up, like one of his beautiful balloons. Then all the air went out of him and he came crashing back...
The Bulletin: sixty years and counting
The JCCA is you and I and all those others whose interests and lives may diverge in a thousand ways, yet who all have...
The Pain We Cannot Swallow
This article was originally published in Ricepaper Magazine. December 13th, 2018 marks eighty-one years since the Nanjing Massacre. “The Pain We Cannot Swallow” is...
Durational Taiko at Hastings Park
On September 29, I joined two dozen other taiko players in the livestock building at Hastings Park for Durational Taiko – a marathon drumming...
The Suitcase Project : Dialogues + Reflections
Consider how your family’s journey has shaped who you are today” is the request shared at the base of the large velvet red banner at the entrance to the small gallery coated in black paint. Framed photos in birch hang in neat disorder, like the way a family would hang a mass of images in their living room. Voices emit a combination of anger, hope and sadness in the background, while fragments of their lives flash across a projected screen.
A Canadian Yonsei in Yamagata
As I came to know the students and teachers over the next few weeks, I felt amazed by their kindness and hospitality. One teacher even went to Costco and bought me peanut butter and popcorn to make me feel more at home. The vice principal makes a huge effort to speak English to me, and I often find little treats left on my desk.
