a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
We at The Bulletin have been receiving some “one-liners” from readers responding to our informal survey : Please follow “You Are Japanese Canadian (JC) If…” (see January issue). It can be a light-hearted, humorous or even a touching way of looking at…
Akemashite omedetoo gozaimasu to all our readers, and may we all have a fruitful 2014. Let’s begin the new year by examining the “way we are,” i.e. we Japanese Canadians, Japanese Americans and long-time resident Japanese. What are we really like?…
Over the past several years, I’ve been translating so many historical materials on such subjects as Japanese Canadians’ lives up to World War Il, that I’ve lately become somewhat obsessed with the basic question: “What does history mean to us?” …
Like many of you, going to Oppenheimer Park for the Powell Street Festival in early August has become an annual ritual for me in the 16 years I’ve lived in Vancouver so far. I’ve been going just about every summer…
One Nikkei Vancouverite’s Unique Contribution As you know, Vancouver, with its convivial multi-racial culture and splendid natural surroundings is regularly rated near the top of the “world’s best cities to live in” type of rankings. On the other hand, being…
“Hi, Mas,” the mayor of San Jose was nice enough to greet me casually as he extended his hand with those words. It was in the early 1970s in San Francisco during a conference of US and Japanese mayors, in…
by Masaki Watanabe I became a passionate pro baseball fan when I was still in primary school, over 60 years ago. Back then I knew only Japanese Professional Baseball (hereafter NPB) which was in the first heyday of the Giants…
My past two articles here have both unwittingly been about gratitude toward good friends who have passed on – an inevitability that we human beings, especially those of us in the senior age bracket, have to accept philosophically; not that…
“The Japanese and Chinese – A Confrontation of Destination” reads the title of a special feature the authoritative literary monthly Bungei Shunju ran recently. As we all know, the relationship between Japan and China, or more precisely Tokyo and Beijing…
As we Nikkei and ijusha folk, incuding parents, get older, we begin to feel that we have to pass on to our children and other young ones around us something, however vague, of Japanese culture that we have inherited from…
Like many parents having their college-age son or daughter home for their summer break, we’re enjoying quality time with our son who’s been away studying (supposedly) at a university in Tokyo. In between snatches of conversation about life in Japan…