a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
Shorter days, longer nights The other day a brand new reusable lunch bag appeared on our kitchen counter. Despite the fact that it’s an attractive piece of minimalist architecture, I balked a bit at the $25 price tag still attached…
When Naomi Yamamoto was elected as the BC Liberal MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale on May 12, 2009, it marked the first time a Japanese Canadian had been elected to the BC Legislature. Coming as it did almost exactly sixty years…
Wouldn’t it be great if visitors to the Powell Street Festival could also walk up and down Powell Street and explore some of the businesses and workshops in the area? This was the simple idea that started the Open Doors…
By the time Anna Ling Kaye was twenty, she had lived in ten different cities in eight different countries and had travelled through many more—mostly in Asia. Her father, a New York Jew, is a journalist, hence the travel. She…
This year the Powell Street Festival celebrates its 35th Anniversary. Given the fact that Vancouver is marking its 125th Anniversary this year, it may not seem like such a great feat, but when you stop to think about it, and…
By Judy Hanazawa The Japanese Canadian Hastings Park Project continues to progress now that the redevelopment of Hastings Park has been approved and implementation has begun. Already new signage throughout the Park is being mounted and the Livestock Building—designated now…
Only a little more than three months have passed since the Tohoku Region of Japan was hit on March 11th by the triple disasters of a 9.0 earthquake, a massive tsunami and a nuclear reactor meltdown. While the horrific images…
Chuck Tasaka is a retired teacher living in Nanaimo, BC. Growing up in Greenwood during the Internment years he and many other Japanese Canadian children were educated at Sacred Heart School established by the nuns of the Franciscan Sisters of…
After serving Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for the past 85 years, The Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement are leaving Vancouver and moving to their Edmonton convent. In the early twenties and thirties, the Sisters and the Friars served the Japanese community…
I know people who have a strong emotional attachment to their childhood home. It was the place where they were born and raised; the place where they went to school, made friends, had their first kiss; often it’s the home…
