The Bulletin a journal of Japanese Canadian community, history & culture

Remembrance Day 2020

Thanks to Veteran’s Affairs Canada, we are able to live stream the Remembrance Day service this year, and hope to reach more than the...

Miso Soup for the Soul: Kabochallah

Jewpanese Maple KaboChallah by Carmel Tanaka At the ripe old age of 27, I learned to bake my first challah. My teacher was none...

Miso Soup for the Soul: Obaachan’s Pickles

I remember the first time following Obaachan into the root cellar. It was cooler and dark. I could see different containers and jars of preserved vegetables and fruit. Obaachan was a tiny woman, but very strong.

Two Sides of the Pacific: Two Sides of the Coin

This is the life story of Sadao, who has experienced life on two sides of the Pacific Ocean, or, in the words of Mr. Yusuke Tanaka, a “trans-Pacific voyage”.

Randall Okita’s The Book of Distance

It’s an experience that is hard to describe, there are so many layers to interacting with a story that is this personal, intergenerational, and marked in parts with silence. In some ways, retelling is reliving

Editorial – September 2020

When Amy and I decided to make the trek east in August to spend a couple of days camping on Kootenay Lake we were...

On Hiroshima Day

I want to establish my relationship to the bombing of Hiroshima in conversation to the present, and how it spills over time, borders, and culture.

EXC-19: Collaboration during quarantine

Exquisite Corpse is a game invented in Paris by Surrealists André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, and Marcel Duchamp in the early 1900s. Similar...

Michael Prior: Burning Province

I remember the first time my grandparents, my sister, and I drove by where Tashme used to be on our way into the interior to visit my father’s parents and someone pointed it out. I remember, too, distinctly thinking that “Tashme,” was a Japanese word

Jewpanese Family Zoom Call

by Carmel Tanaka Ever since I was little, I’ve wanted to meet others like me: Jewish and Japanese. So, to celebrate Jewish and Asian...