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...
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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.
