My parents and I were both going to be at Powell Street Festival on Sunday, the same day as the Vancouver Pride parade. Given this co-occurrence, I thought I’d tell my parents about my hopes to travel to California for a LGBTQ+ gathering in the
In 2015, the BC Government launched a pilot program to identify places of historic significance to Chinese Canadians, resultng in the addition of 21...
When Linda Ohama arrived in Onomichi on Children’s Day in May, 1999, camera crew in tow, she was looking for footage for her film,...
“What? I have to travel 400 km to work all summer? I will call family services!” No, no, that didn’t come out of the...
by Judy Hanazawa This presentation on April 5 at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House featured 3 speakers who spoke from their personal and professional experience....
When Winnipeg’s Fubuki Daiko celebrated its twentieth anniversary last year, it marked a major milestone as one of North America’s few professional taiko groups....
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 7PM to 8PM HIROSHIMA GOODWILL CULTURAL MISSION TO VANCOUVER Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre Featuring Izumi Kimoto (vocals) Yoshie Tachikawa...
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...
