Tamio Wakayama: A Remembrance
by Masaru Edmund Nakawatase I first met Tamio Wakayama in the winter of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. We were both very recent volunteers for...
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SPAM® Musubi at Powell Street Festival
This is the eight consecutive year that we will be selling SPAM® Sushi or SPAM® Musubi at the Powell Street Festival. It is referred...
Hataraki-ing: Katsuya Terada
This New Year special edition concerns an encounter I had with super hard working cartoonist and artist, Katsuya Terada, and Hirokazu Yasuhara, the creator...
Kayla Isomura: packing for unknown journeys
The Suitcase Project asks yonsei and gosei (4th and 5th generation Japanese Canadians and Americans) what would they pack if uprooted from their homes with only a moment’s notice. Participants will be photographed in their homes and then interviewed about the items that they chose to pack.
Okinawan Kodama, A Celebration of the Heart, Soul and Spirit
沖縄の鼓魂 Okinawan Kodama: A Celebration of the Heart, Soul and Spirit On Friday, August 4, Metro Vancouver audiences will be treated to a feast of Okinawan...
What Lies Beneath the Surface is Deep
Undertow RM Greenaway A B.C. Blues Crime Novel (Dundern, 2017) review by Colleen Tsoukalas Undertow is Canadian, local to West Coasters and written by a...
Immigration Faux Pas in Canada
Manzo Nagano is credited with being the first Japanese settler in Canada in 1877, though he was not the first to come to BC....
Japanese Canadian Artist Directory in the Works
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser, naturalist, 1917. If Dreiser is right, then there will be much honey stored...
Nisei: Nikkei connection to McLean Mill
Did you know that there was a very small settlement of Japanese Canadians at the McLean Mill in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in...
Forget How Good or Bad your Japanese/English Is – Do Tackle a Third Language
Akemashite omedetoo gozaimasu and a Happy New Year to all you readers out there. You are a source of great inspiration for me as...
Community workshop on the effects of sexual abuse
On June 15, 2015 the Anglican Diocese of Calgary and New Westminster gave their apology to survivors, their families, friends and the Japanese Canadian...
Mio-Steveston Fishermen Dialect
Whenever you hear of Mio, a poor, small fishing village south-east of Osaka in Wakayama-ken, the name ‘Amerika Mura’ comes to mind. To the...
