Year 2016

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Editor’s note: B While Terry is on his summer hiatus, we decided to look back on his nearly thirty years of writing about and for the Japanese Canadian community and by extension the Asian Canadian community. We will be reprinting some…

JAPAN: NEXT Presented by Continuum Contemporary Music May 26, 2016, 8 pm Mazzoleni Concert Hall 273 Bloor Street West Japan: NEXT was presented by Continuum Contemporary Music on May 26, 2016, as part of this year’s 21st Century Music Festival. We…

Background Landscapes of Injustice is currently in its third year of a seven-year research project led by researchers at the University of Victoria in partnership with 15 other institutions including specialists drawn from universities, community organizations and museums across the…

Sushi-Gen is on my mind, and I’ve decided to spend a modest amount for a decent Japanese lunch. The food’s priced in the middle bracket, and it’s consistently well-prepared, well-presented, and dependable.

The long, hot days of summer are transitioning into preparation for back-to-school and the routine of fall. We say it every year, but it does seem as if time is flying by. We were fortunate to have three wonderful, talented…

The famous Vancouver Asahi baseball teams have been well-documented and the latest, a movie made in Japan called Asahi was the ‘icing on the cake’. Pat Adachi was the first to write the history of the Asahi franchise in her…

My parents and I were both going to be at Powell Street Festival on Sunday, the same day as the Vancouver Pride parade. Given this co-occurrence, I thought I’d tell my parents about my hopes to travel to California for a LGBTQ+ gathering in the

In 2015, the BC Government launched a pilot program to identify places of historic significance to Chinese Canadians, resultng in the addition of 21 provincially recognized places in to the BC Register of Historic Places, the official provincial list of…

When Linda Ohama arrived in Onomichi on Children’s Day in May, 1999, camera crew in tow, she was looking for footage for her film, Obaachan’s Garden. What she found went much deeper. Onomichi quickly became her second home, a place…