Tokyo Trend #3
Jodi Sam is an illustrator, writer, daydreamer who relocated to Tokyo from Vancouver in 2010.
The Bulletin
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
The Bulletin
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
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Young leaders
For the past three years, a group of youth associated with the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) have been working to address the dearth of young people in leadership positions. A youth meeting and digital storytelling workshop at the…
Leading by Example
“How do we get young people interested and involved?” Anyone with a more-than-superficial involvement in the Japanese Canadian community has heard this refrain . . .
Vancouver Ondo
by Rei Kitano With 54 entries and nearly 2,700 participants, the sixth Annual Canada Day Parade, celebrating Canada’s diversity and unique multiculturalism, drew one of the largest crowds ever. Vancouver Ondo, with close to 200 people in vibrant coloured yukatas…
Hafu: the mixed race experience in Japan
A recent article in uk.news.yahoo.com looks at “the changing DNA of Japanese pop culture” through fashion icons like Rola, a model of Bengali, Japanese and Russian descent. The piece points to a shifting landscape that has had a positive effect…
100th Anniversary of Komagata Maru
Singers and drummers led the massive dinner crowd through the entrance to the large hall at the Musqueam Community Centre in Vancouver. As the people found their way to the tables and settled into their chairs, the singing and drumming…
Spam Musubi at Powell Street Festival
A long line of hungry customers snakes down the block at the Powell Street Festival, their appetites whetted by the aromas wafting from the JCCA food booth. The scent comes from slabs of marinated SPAM® frying on hot BBQs before…
of leaders + leadership
In Terry Watada’s remembrances of Japanese American activist Yuri Kochiyama on page 14 he talks about staying at her apartment in New York, noting “Hundreds maybe thousands of people came through that Harlem apartment, many of them staying overnight or…
Taber Times loses one of its newspaper family
Southern Alberta lost a newspaper icon over the weekend as former Taber Times co-owner Walter Koyanagi passed away peacefully at the age of 93. Co-owning the Times along with partner George Meyer from 1970-1987, Koyanagi helped put the Taber Times…
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre 20th Anniversary
The Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre invites you to our 20th anniversary!
Celtic Cannery
Celtic Cannery commenced operation around 1900 and over the next four decades a thriving Japanese Canadian community developed.
Tokyo Trend
Jodi Sam is an illustrator, writer, daydreamer who relocated to Tokyo from Vancouver in 2010.
