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His blog is called Letters from Santa, he favours bow ties, plays the cello (well), and has an engaging smile and personality. He also tweets with the best of them. As the newly-minted President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of…

Call on the Federal Government to Repeal C-51, the Anti-terrorist Act, 2015 by Kathy Shimizu and Judy Hanazawa  The Anti-terrorist Act is like the War Measures Act for Muslims.  — Hasan Alam, Legal Counsel, Canadian Union of Public Employees The…

Part two of the series, Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians, by Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective This article will pick up where the previous one left off, and continues with the…

I was born with a white man’s name. When I looked in the mirror, I never found a white person, nor a man. A mystifying misery of disconnection between what I saw in the mirror and what I felt like inside left me feeling very lonely. All I wanted to do was fit in and not have to contend with these feelings of alienation.

Blessing in Disguise – What was a blessing for Japanese Canadians? Review of a New Book: Honouring Our People – Breaking the Silence by Yusuke Tanaka This book is a collection of testimonies presented at a conference: The Honouring Our…

by Judy Hanazawa, with written contributions from Esther and Wendy Matsubuchi, Paul and Bev Sunohara The matter of the cherry tree at St. Martin’s Church came to the attention of our Japanese Canadian Working Group in 2014. At that time,…

Vancouver, BC: Japanese Canadian community organizations and individuals have joined together and launched a Facebook page, JC Sites BC, in response to a provincial government call for nominations for historically significant Japanese Canadian places.  Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association…

by Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective The Wealth of My Home (Wagaya no tomi) My house is merely ten-tsubo (approx. 300 square feet; read SMALL) The yard is no more than three (approx. 100 square feet; read…

Most careers involve working your way up from some starting point – in Richard Kanazawa’s case it was starting behind the wheel of a Plymouth Voyager, delivering wine for Langley’s Domaine de Chaberton Winery. At the time he had two…

The Japanese Husband Headquarters is a not-so-secret society founded by Yoshinori Tanaka in 2007 as a social club. The Bulletin talked to Yoshinori while he waits for their barrel of single malt whisky, ordered from the Odd Society, to age…