John Endo Greenaway

By Roy Inoyue In the April 2010 Editions of The Bulletin and the Nikkei Voice, I had placed an article requesting information about Jugoro Irie. He immigrated to Canada from Kumamoto Ken, Nabe mura, Aza Nabe. He had passed away…

By Mary Kitagawa When President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, he sent 110,000 innocent Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals to internment camps. Similarly, when Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King invoked…

Two major points that are unique perhaps to this film and serve to educate the public: the first is that this film portrays teens who are younger than the characters in most coming out films I’ve heard of that have been screened worldwide; the second is that in Japan right now, and over the past few years, there are a number of celebrities who are female in a male’s body (women who dress as men), the opposite to what I have experienced. This is widely known in Japan—Japan is learning that there are these people—but there is very little knowledge of the reverse.

Houston is THE most important figure when it comes to Inuit art, and as such he is regarded highly in the far north. As you say, it is interesting that James Houston didn’t have either cultural background, but given that abstract, expressive qualities of both Inuit and Japanese art fit the aesthetic taste of Western modernism, it isn’t too surprising that he was interested in non-Western art.

One may well wonder why the latest exhibit at the Japanese Canadian National Museum features Inuit prints—surely the quintessential Canadian art form. A talk with Beth Carter, Director/Curator of the JCNM, reveals the fascinating story of the impact of Japanese…

During and after the Second World War internment of Japanese Canadians, Asahi baseball players were at the vanguard of re-establishing baseball as a pillar of Nikkei social life, first in the internment camps in the British Columbia interior, and later in the various centres of resettlement.

The Asahi was a Vancouver minor league baseball team during the 20s and 30s made up of Japanese Canadians. At a time when sports was dominated by Caucasian players, the Asahi competed against the best teams of the day, winning 5 consecutive Pacific Northwest championships in the thirties until the team was disbanded and the players interned after Pearl Harbour. It marked the end of a glorious era in Vancouver sports history.

Kirsten McAllister first visited New Denver in 1991, helping document the Lemon Creek reunion and bus tour that saw former Japanese Canadian internees return to the Kootenays, where they had been incarcerated during World War Two. The video-documentary, released later…

For three gloriously sunny days in September, I volunteered for Vancouver’s first ever Hapapalooza Festival. I’ll never forget the experience. After reading Anna Ling Kaye’s  interview in last August’s Bulletin, I wanted to get involved. I am not hapa, but…