JCCA AGM March 15
On March 15, 2014 the GVJCCA will hold its Annual General Meeting at Nikkei Place from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the GVJCCA office at Nikkei Place. We are currently accepting nominations for our Board of Directors for the…
The Bulletin
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
The Bulletin
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
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JCCA Keirokai 2014
The annual JCCA Keirokai luncheon was held January 18 at Nikkei Centre in honour of the seniors in our community. The afternoon was MC’ed by JCCA President Gary Matson with greetings & kanpai by Consul General Seiji Okada. Entertainment was…
Community Photo on Powell Street
On Sunday, February 2, Friends of 439 brought together members of various communities, including members of the Ming Sun Benevolent Society to celebrate new beginnings and the Year of the Horse, in re-creating the above photograph.The multi-community, multi-generational photo was taken to…
Support Asian Canadian Studies Course at UBC
Support Asian Canadian Studies Course at UBC In a November 16, 2011 media release, UBC recognized the Japanese Canadian students who were expelled from campus in 1942. They proposed a three-part approach, with each component related to the academic mission…
Chinese Cultural Centre Reaches out to JC Community re: Apology to Chinese Canadians
The Chinese apology exercise currently in process began last March when news about the Liberal government’s controversial ethnic outreach strategy leaked out. The strategy suggested formal apologies in the legislature to ethnic communities for historic wrongs could result in quick…
Yumiko Hoyano: Bridging the gap between ijusha and Canadian-born Nikkei
Yumiko Hoyano came to Canada in 1965 from Sapporo, Japan, where she was born and raised. Having graduated from Hokkaido University with a BSc in Chemistry she was looking for opportunities that would remained out of reach had she stayed…
in the passage of time
Roy Kiyooka was the first Japanese Canadian I knew, other than my mother of course, and her family. As a young child growing up in Toronto, I just knew him as Roy, one of my parents’ friends, the one with…
Donated Dolls Revive Lost Japanese Culture
by Yusuke Tanaka Reiko’s Hina Dolls Directed by Komaki Matsui Original story by Yumiko Hoyano The average age of the nisei generation is easily over 80 years old. They were less than 10 when the war started. When asked about…
Remembering Roy Kiyooka: 1926 – 1994
It was twenty years ago this January that Roy Kiyooka died suddenly and unexpectedly, leaving behind an incredibly diverse body of work that speaks to the restless creativity and curiosity that drove him over the course of his lifetime and his career as an artist.
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre – Twenty Years of Memories
by Tsuneko Kokubo (with ‘ghost writer’ Paul Gibbons) At just about the time that the Kyowakai Society of New Denver was being created, I was a small child visiting my grandmother in Japan. When the internment happened, I was stranded…
Japanese songs, Thelonious Monk, & Satoko Fujii
The other day I started thinking about that deep feeling in Japanese folk and pop songs. Not that I’m an expert, because I don’t know a lot of Japanese songs, I don’t search for them, and I really didn’t learn any when growing up. Now, for the record, I do know some of the lyrics and melody of that old chestnut, Sukiyaki.
Meet Bill Kobayashi, the father of Canada’s iconic tabletop hockey game
Kobayashi’s path to becoming the father of Canada’s iconic tabletop hockey game was anything but direct. He first found work as a punch press operator, stamping parts for jewelry. To improve on his Grade 8 education, he enrolled at Sir George Williams College — now Concordia University — where he took chemistry, physics and math.
