Book Review: The Rise & Fall of America’s Concentration Camp Law
by Maryka Omatsu The Rise & Fall of America’s Concentration Camp Law by Masumi Izumi Temple University Press, 2019 Japanese American nisei, born in the...
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Katari Taiko Public Workshop
THREE HOUR EVENING WORKSHOP: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:30-9:30 pm Learn about fundamental taiko drumming techniques and rhythms and explore the context of taiko...
A Justice In Her Time
A Justice In Her Time, An Honorary Doctor Of Laws For Maryka Omatsu “Ryerson bestows Honorary degrees to those who have made extraordinary contributions...
Katari Taiko turns 40
Katari Taiko: Canada’s first taiko group turns 40 On November 23, the Japanese Hall at the Vancouver Japanese Language School was filled with the...
Sake for the Holidays
By Elise Gee Consider a kanpai for Christmas cheer this year! Sake continues its ascent as a popular tipple outside the realm of Asian...
Community Kitchen, November
by Lea Ault and Alice Bradley Every November 11, my husband Justin takes our daughters to the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Japanese Canadian War...
Sugar Beet Fields: 77 Years After
Southern Alberta Sugar Beet Fields: 77 Years After by David B. Iwaasa photos by Noriko Nasu-Tidball Some 77 years after approximately 2,250 exhausted and...
Community Meeting – BC Redress
All community members at invited to an information meeting on November 17, 2019 to learn more about Japanese Canadian Redress from BC.
60 Years on the Ground with the Vancouver Japanese Gardeners Association featuring David Suzuki
The Vancouver Japanese Gardeners Association was formed in 1959, in the aftermath of the wartime internment and dislocation of British Columbia’s Japanese Canadian community....
Community Kitchen October
by Alice Bradley and Lea Ault October is here and Canadian Thanksgiving is upon us. Does everyone have their favourite Thanksgiving recipes ready to go?...
Hikikomori come out of the shadows in Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Kuroko
I think hikikomori might be providing a glimpse of our collective future here in the West. Who isn’t guilty of spending too much time staring at a little screen and not enough time making eye contact with those around them? I know I fall into that trap every day.
Hold These Truths shines a light on quiet hero Gordon Hirabayashi
In 2007, inspired by Hirabayashi’s story, Japanese American actress Jeanne Sakata wrote her first play, Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi, which premiered at East West Players in Los Angeles.
