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The origin of Obon can be traced to the Ulambana Sutra which relates the story of Mogallana, the most gifted of Shakyamuni Buddha’s disciples...

It turned out to be a nice day. Sometimes when the weather is too good, it discourages people from attending indoor events. That wasn’t...

by Grace Eiko Thomson Noboru Sawai, was a rare artist in our midst, a cross-cultural post-modernist, who, in fact, contributed greatly to contemporary Canadian...

by Chris Kurata In the June issue of The Bulletin, we printed a conversation between Toronto scholar Chris Kurata and Ann Gomer Sunahara, author...

Interviewed and written by Kaori Kasai, Geppo Japanese Editor Translated by Aro Hamakawa For this month’s article, we interviewed Ms. Kaoruko Yamamoto, who has a...

On three days in September 2009, families, friends, and survivors came together for the Honouring Our People: Stories of the Internment conference in Burnaby,...

by Chris Kurata In 1924, Canada’s Dominion Archivist, Arthur G. Doughty, wrote, “Of all national assets, archives are the most precious; they are the...

  by Magnus Lu ‘And I would like a rice of bowl’, said my mother to the waitress. I pursed my lips together to...

Walking Tour uncovers history of Japanese Canadians and unions in the Downtown Eastside Japanese immigration to Canada began in the 1800s, with men looking for...

In July 1942, Tashme, the largest of the Canadian internment camps, opened its doors to Japanese Canadians who had been ordered removed from the...