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ensoku 2019 brings young Japanese Canadians and Americans together in unprecedented Vancouver event photos by Kayla Isomura Over the May long weekend, 40 young-ish Japanese Canadians, Japanese Americans, and their friends came together to build community and explore our shared…

Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre selects new Executive Director The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre was opened on September 22, 2000. Part of the Nikkei Place complex – which includes an assisted living residence, a seniors residence, a Japanese…

Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra presents Global Soundscapes Festival When the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra was formed in 2000 under founding artistic director Moshe Denburg its stated mission was “to to act as a forum for the creation of a new musical art…

Sitting at the mouth of the Fraser River, the village of Steveston, although technically part of Richmond, BC, retains a unique small town flavour. It’s a flavour that’s heavily influenced by the Japanese immigrants who before the war made up…

Ikue Mori Jim Black Duo TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Ikue Mori is “one of the most singular musicians in modern music history” (Chicago Reader). Moving from Tokyo to New York in 1977, she co-founded the seminal no-wave band DNA,…

Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double at  TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Tomas Fujiwara is a Brooklyn-based drummer and composer who has been described as “a ubiquitous presence in the New York scene…an artist whose urbane writing is equal to his impressively…

Kikiai Collaborative invites young folks of Japanese ancestry to a gathering in Vancouver this May with a focus on food, community dialogue and creative workshops. ensoku, meaning “field trip,” is a grassroots event that will take place from May 17-20,…

When Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa first in 2009 as members of the English Theatre acting company at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, they discovered a commonality in their backgrounds as they began to compare notes. Both are mixed-race Japanese…

Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world, a new exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, features personal perspectives on the exile, dispossession, and internment of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s through a series of artworks interspersed throughout the Sigmund…

by Paul Kariya I grew up here as a child and spent summers fishing with my father as a teenager but know so little about this place I have always called home. No matter where I have lived I have…

Junko Tabei was born in Miharu, north of Tokyo, in 1939. A pioneering mountaineer and lover of peaks, she founded Japan’s “Ladies Climbing Club” in 1969. Leading an all-women Japanese team, Tabei reached the summit of Everest on May 16,…