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

YO-IN Reverberation

The ringing of the bronze temple bell on New Year’s eve is a time of reflection on the past. The sound of the bell...

CRAZY ABOUT KABUKI

Male-form dances are active and fun, and you can actually portray female characters within them. In Kuruwa hakkei (Eight Views of the Pleasure Quarter), the main character is a man who goes to the Pleasure Quarter.

Hiromi Goto: Darkest Light

Half World took over eight years to write so when I had finally completed it I was very much ready to move on. But my editor gently asked me if there could be another Half World book and after a little time had passed I knew that there could.

a vote for democracy

Given the lengths that previously-disenfranchised groups of people in Canada have gone through to get the right to vote, you’d think more people would cherish the right to have a say in who runs their city, their province and their country.

President’s Message

It’s been a full decade that the Canadian Government has recognized Asian Canadians’ contributions to Canada and the world. Here in Vancouver, we are blessed with our rich diversity of Asian cultures, enriching us socially, culturally, and economically.

Community Kitchen

With barbecue season coming up, this is a easy chicken recipe. My son was going to come over for dinner on Thursday, so I was going to marinate the chicken overnight but he couldn’t make it till Saturday so I kept turning the chicken in the marinade for three nights and was it ever the tenderest, melt in the mouth chicken I ever cooked.

Mixed Match: a matter of race

  In 2007 filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns heard from a friend of his, who was a cancer survivor, about a young SFU student who...

The Difference Between Travelling Solo and Travelling Alone

‘Life is a journey,’ or so they say. This is not just in the metaphysical sense, I believe. It is also about our actual physical movements over the years from one country, city or locality to another, and even about short family holidays or business trips.

a matter of identity

I was interviewed the other day and among the questions were two that spoke to the issue of identity. The questions struck me as...