

a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture


a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
Year 2016
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働きing:谷浦悠也
賑やかだった出版記念会
Honouring Our People Book Launch
It turned out to be a nice day. Sometimes when the weather is too good, it discourages people from attending indoor events. That wasn’t the case with the GVJCCA Honouring Our People book launch. The room was packed with about…
Noboru Sawai (1931-2017): A unique artist
by Grace Eiko Thomson Noboru Sawai, was a rare artist in our midst, a cross-cultural post-modernist, who, in fact, contributed greatly to contemporary Canadian printmaking. I had heard about him when I was working as a contemporary art curator in…
President’s Message
The Asian Canadian community came out to the 20th Anniversary explorASIAN gala on June 11th to celebrate the success of this year’s Vancouver Asian Heritage Month events. The Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society which is the organization behind explorASIAN hosted…
You are a Japanese Canadian If . .
Editor’s note: Terry Watada is on summer break and will return in October. In the interim, we thought we’d publish some “classic” columns by Terry. More than a little while ago I received a letter from a friend who has…
The Taste of Home
It was once known as the Powell Street Grounds, later changed to Oppenheimer Park, after Vancouver’s second mayor, David Oppenheimer. Depending on what website you’re looking at, it was opened in 1898 or 1902. From the latter part of the…
The Reflections of an Elder : Excerpts from an Interview with Ann Gomer Sunahara – Part II
by Chris Kurata In the June issue of The Bulletin, we printed a conversation between Toronto scholar Chris Kurata and Ann Gomer Sunahara, author of The Politics of Racism (Lorimer, 1981), one of a number of texts that were pivotal…