ensoku 2019 brings young Japanese Canadians and Americans together in unprecedented Vancouver event photos by Kayla Isomura Over the May long weekend, 40 young-ish...

Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre selects new Executive Director The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre was opened on September 22, 2000. Part of...

Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra presents Global Soundscapes Festival When the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra was formed in 2000 under founding artistic director Moshe Denburg its stated...

Sitting at the mouth of the Fraser River, the village of Steveston, although technically part of Richmond, BC, retains a unique small town flavour....

Ikue Mori Jim Black Duo TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Ikue Mori is “one of the most singular musicians in modern music history” (Chicago...

Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double at  TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Tomas Fujiwara is a Brooklyn-based drummer and composer who has been described as “a...

Kikiai Collaborative invites young folks of Japanese ancestry to a gathering in Vancouver this May with a focus on food, community dialogue and creative...

Last year I caught, quite by accident, a truly unique episode of Bonanza. The second longest-running television western (Gunsmoke being the longest) was on-air from 1959 to 1973.

When Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa first in 2009 as members of the English Theatre acting company at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, they...

Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world, a new exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, features personal perspectives on the exile, dispossession, and...

by Paul Kariya I grew up here as a child and spent summers fishing with my father as a teenager but know so little...

Junko Tabei was born in Miharu, north of Tokyo, in 1939. A pioneering mountaineer and lover of peaks, she founded Japan’s “Ladies Climbing Club”...