a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
The Changing Tides photo exhibit at the National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre in Burnaby showcases the efforts of a group of former teachers who worked in Japan and who are now working to raise awareness and funds following the…
chelfitsch, the Tokyo-based theatre company formed in 1997 by Playwright Toshiki Okada, last appeared in Vancouver in January 2009. This time around, the company is presenting Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner and the Farewell Speech, at the PuSh International Performing Arts…
Striking the right balance between power + skill When Toshihiro Hamanaka came to Vancouver in the early nineties, with his wife and one-year-old daughter in tow, he only intended to stay for three years. Having trained and worked as a…
All Nikkei Centre Events at 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC phone: 604.777.7000 ¦ info@nikkeiplace.org ¦ www.nikkeiplace.org First Friday of each month, 7:30pm Harry Aoki’s First Friday Forum Tonari Gumi, 511 East Broadway Enjoy an evening of music,…
“I’ve had to work hard enough for three generations in my time.” George Nitta In 1977 and 1978, Strathcona residents Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter embarked on an ambitious task: to document, through oral histories, the lives of the neighbourhood’s…
In late 1973,while recovering from kidney failure, Dr. M. Miyazaki wrote and published an autobiography, My Sixty Years in Canada, a book that paints a vivid portrait of life as a Japanese Canadian in the mid-1900s. Miyazaki, who passed away…
In spite of a cold, rainy and blistery day, about 200 dedicated souls came out for the 86th annual Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial in Stanley Park. It was heartening to see the families, friends and…
The Hastings Park Commemoration Committee met on November 14 to review our project outline for grant applications and to receive an update on Hastings Park redevelopment activity from planner Dave Hutch. Currently the Livestock building is undergoing a necessary seismic…
As the year of the dragon prepares to pounce on an unsuspecting world, we look back in this issue of The Bulletin—not over the past year, but over the past seventy years and more. The decision by the University of…
hiroshima is a powerful exhibition on display at UBC’s Museum of Anthroplogy through Sunday, February 12, 2012 Featuring 48 photographs by Ishiuchi Miyako of clothing and accessories left behind by victims of the 1945 atomic bomb at Hiroshima, what is…
