Fubuki Daiko: going for broke under the northern lights
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....
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GVJCCA welcomes Hiroshima Goodwill Cultural Mission to Vancouver
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 7PM to 8PM HIROSHIMA GOODWILL CULTURAL MISSION TO VANCOUVER Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre Featuring Izumi Kimoto (vocals) Yoshie Tachikawa...
Obon
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...
Honouring Our People Book Launch
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...
Noboru Sawai (1931-2017): A unique artist
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...
The Reflections of an Elder : Excerpts from an Interview with Ann Gomer Sunahara – Part II
by Chris Kurata In the June issue of The Bulletin, we printed a conversation between Toronto scholar Chris Kurata and Ann Gomer Sunahara, author...
Hataraki-ing (Work-ing): Kaoruko Yamamoto
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...
New book – Honouring Our People: Breaking the Silence
On three days in September 2009, families, friends, and survivors came together for the Honouring Our People: Stories of the Internment conference in Burnaby,...
A Gift Most Precious : Excerpts from an interview with Ann Gomer Sunahara
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...
On Being Japanese Canadian in the ‘80s and ‘90s
by Magnus Lu ‘And I would like a rice of bowl’, said my mother to the waitress. I pursed my lips together to...
You-mo? Me-mo!: Nisei Language and Dialect
I don’t have a PhD in linguistics but I hope that a budding linguist major will get interested in this topic. In Hawaii, the...
Walking in the Footsteps of History
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...
