On Being Yukiko – a graphic novel
When acclaimed artists Jeff Chiba Stearns and Lillian Michiko Blakey decided to pool their considerable talents to create a graphic novel for young readers,...
The Bulletin
Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment & Dispossession of Japanese Canadians – a review
by Judge Maryka Omatsu LANDSCAPES OF INJUSTICE: A New Perspective on the Internment & Dispossession of Japanese Canadians Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross McGill-Queens Press, 2020...
RM Greenaway: River of Lies
In 2014, Nelson resident Rachel Greenaway won the Arthur Ellis Unhanged award for best unpublished novel for her novel Cold Girl. The award led...
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.
Whose Remembrance, of What, and to What Purpose: Citizens Saving Japan’s Constitutional Peace Clause, and Its Relevance to Peace, War, and Canadian Multiculturalism
UBC ANTH Faculty Brown Bag Series: Dr. Millie Creighton Tuesday November 10, 2020 12:30pm On the verge of Remembrance Day 2020, a year marking...
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...
