A Totem Pole for Mio
Sammy Takahashi, president of the Japan-Canada Chamber of Commerce, was shopping at the Save-On-Foods on Marine Drive near his home in North Vancouver when...
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Remembrance Day 2020: 100 years of memories
by Linda Kawamoto Reid One hundred years of people gathering at the cenotaph conjures up so many images, stories, emotions, and memories of tribute....
Migration, Displacement, and Redress: A Japanese Canadian Perspective
Migration, Displacement, and Redress: A Japanese Canadian Perspective by Tatsuo Kage Electromagnetic Print (2020), electromagneticprint.com/tatsuo-kage $25.00 CAD Book Review by Angela May (née Kruger) Tatsuo...
Plowing My Parents’ Landscape of Conscience
From the 1990s, my parents’ home became a meeting place and a regular lodging for various members of the Líl’wat Nation and many other indigenous leaders and representatives. My mother, a retired social worker, befriended many of these activists.
On Being Yukiko – a graphic novel
When acclaimed artists Jeff Chiba Stearns and Lillian Michiko Blakey decided to pool their considerable talents to create a graphic novel for young readers,...
Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment & Dispossession of Japanese Canadians – a review
by Judge Maryka Omatsu LANDSCAPES OF INJUSTICE: A New Perspective on the Internment & Dispossession of Japanese Canadians Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross McGill-Queens Press, 2020...
RM Greenaway: River of Lies
In 2014, Nelson resident Rachel Greenaway won the Arthur Ellis Unhanged award for best unpublished novel for her novel Cold Girl. The award led...
Remembrance Day 2020
Thanks to Veteran’s Affairs Canada, we are able to live stream the Remembrance Day service this year, and hope to reach more than the...
Miso Soup for the Soul: Kabochallah
Jewpanese Maple KaboChallah by Carmel Tanaka At the ripe old age of 27, I learned to bake my first challah. My teacher was none...
Whose Remembrance, of What, and to What Purpose: Citizens Saving Japan’s Constitutional Peace Clause, and Its Relevance to Peace, War, and Canadian Multiculturalism
UBC ANTH Faculty Brown Bag Series: Dr. Millie Creighton Tuesday November 10, 2020 12:30pm On the verge of Remembrance Day 2020, a year marking...
Two Sides of the Pacific: Two Sides of the Coin
This is the life story of Sadao, who has experienced life on two sides of the Pacific Ocean, or, in the words of Mr. Yusuke Tanaka, a “trans-Pacific voyage”.
Randall Okita’s The Book of Distance
It’s an experience that is hard to describe, there are so many layers to interacting with a story that is this personal, intergenerational, and marked in parts with silence. In some ways, retelling is reliving
