a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
This growing season, the Tonari Gumi Garden Club presented not one but two workshops on Japanese Herbs. This came about because there was desire and energy among us to hold a public event that engaged members of our neighbourhood garden…
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…
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…
by Judy Hanazawa This presentation on April 5 at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House featured 3 speakers who spoke from their personal and professional experience. It was sponsored by the pro human rights internet news journal rabble.ca, Media Democracy Days, Langara…
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 7PM to 8PM HIROSHIMA GOODWILL CULTURAL MISSION TO VANCOUVER Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre Featuring Izumi Kimoto (vocals) Yoshie Tachikawa (Koto) Please join us for a free concert on Tuesday, August 9, from 7pm to 8pm…
The origin of Obon can be traced to the Ulambana Sutra which relates the story of Mogallana, the most gifted of Shakyamuni Buddha’s disciples in the area of extraordinary sense perceptions. A very filial son, Mogallana one day used his…
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…
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…
Interviewed and written by Kaori Kasai, Geppo Japanese Editor Translated by Aro Hamakawa For this month’s article, we interviewed Ms. Kaoruko Yamamoto, who has a more unique career than most people. First, could you describe what sociologists do? In Vancouver, I…
On three days in September 2009, families, friends, and survivors came together for the Honouring Our People: Stories of the Internment conference in Burnaby, BC. The conference paid tribute to the Japanese Canadians who experienced racism, alienation, betrayal, restrictions, uprooting…
by Chris Kurata In 1924, Canada’s Dominion Archivist, Arthur G. Doughty, wrote, “Of all national assets, archives are the most precious; they are the gift of one generation to another and the extent of our care of them marks the…
