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...
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...
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.
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.
Following the success of my book, Hanatare Bozu, I would like to make my next project a book called Greenwood-Midway: My Home, My Furusato.
by Kenji Maeda As a second-generation Japanese Canadian, I admit I sometimes feel guilty that I don’t know more about the history of the...
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.
Basin Street Blues is one of the most popular New Orleans jazz tunes. You probably know the one that begins “Won’t you come and...
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.
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.
In 2007 filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns heard from a friend of his, who was a cancer survivor, about a young SFU student who...
‘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.
I was interviewed the other day and among the questions were two that spoke to the issue of identity. The questions struck me as...