Category Commmunity

Community Photo on Powell Street

On Sunday, February 2, Friends of 439 brought together members of various communities, including members of the Ming Sun Benevolent Society to celebrate new beginnings and the Year of the Horse, in re-creating the above photograph.The multi-community, multi-generational photo was taken to…

Support Asian Canadian Studies Course at UBC In a November 16, 2011 media release, UBC recognized the Japanese Canadian students who were expelled from campus in 1942. They proposed a three-part approach, with each component related to the academic mission…

The Chinese apology exercise currently in process began last March when news about the Liberal government’s controversial ethnic outreach strategy leaked out. The strategy suggested formal apologies in the legislature to ethnic communities for historic wrongs could result in quick…

by Yusuke Tanaka Reiko’s Hina Dolls Directed by Komaki Matsui Original story by Yumiko Hoyano The average age of the nisei generation is easily over 80 years old. They were less than 10 when the war started. When asked about…

It was twenty years ago this January that Roy Kiyooka died suddenly and unexpectedly, leaving behind an incredibly diverse body of work that speaks to the restless creativity and curiosity that drove him over the course of his lifetime and his career as an artist.

by Tsuneko Kokubo (with ‘ghost writer’ Paul Gibbons) At just about the time that the Kyowakai Society of New Denver was being created, I was a small child visiting my grandmother in Japan. When the internment happened, I was stranded…

The other day I started thinking about that deep feeling in Japanese folk and pop songs. Not that I’m an expert, because I don’t know a lot of Japanese songs, I don’t search for them, and I really didn’t learn any when growing up. Now, for the record, I do know some of the lyrics and melody of that old chestnut, Sukiyaki.

Kobayashi’s path to becoming the father of Canada’s iconic tabletop hockey game was anything but direct. He first found work as a punch press operator, stamping parts for jewelry. To improve on his Grade 8 education, he enrolled at Sir George Williams College — now Concordia University — where he took chemistry, physics and math.

Identifying as Japanese Canadian is no longer the stigma it once was. Heck, some might even say we’re finally cool. After all, our roots go all the way back to the land of Hello Kitty, anime and sushi. What makes YOU Japanese Canadian? The Bulletin is compiling a list of the unique charactaristics that make us who we are.

My first winter in New Denver .... COLD for sure but lots of snow and it stayed. I remember we made our own sleds and skis out of fresh lumber from trees cut in the mountains. Steel runners were attached to the sleds by a man who worked at a local machine shop in town.