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On Sunday, December 9, 2018, Tonari Gumi played host to a celebration luncheon in honour of the 30th Anniversary of Redress and 60th Anniversary of The Bulletin. Presented by the GVJCCA Board and the Human Rights Committee, the afternoon was…

He went up, up, up, like one of his beautiful balloons. Then all the air went out of him and he came crashing back to earth, like the failed astronaut that he was. Or, you know, like that Humpty Dumpty…

The JCCA is you and I and all those others whose interests and lives may diverge in a thousand ways, yet who all have the common bond of a racial and cultural ancestry. And as long as this bond exists…

This article was originally published in Ricepaper Magazine. December 13th, 2018 marks eighty-one years since the Nanjing Massacre. “The Pain We Cannot Swallow” is a Chinese Canadian reflection on the play Japanese Problem. It discusses various traumas related to WWII,…

On September 29, I joined two dozen other taiko players in the livestock building at Hastings Park for Durational Taiko – a marathon drumming session that harkened back to taiko’s original ceremonial function in rural Japan, long before it was…

Consider how your family’s journey has shaped who you are today” is the request shared at the base of the large velvet red banner at the entrance to the small gallery coated in black paint. Framed photos in birch hang in neat disorder, like the way a family would hang a mass of images in their living room. Voices emit a combination of anger, hope and sadness in the background, while fragments of their lives flash across a projected screen.

As I came to know the students and teachers over the next few weeks, I felt amazed by their kindness and hospitality. One teacher even went to Costco and bought me peanut butter and popcorn to make me feel more at home. The vice principal makes a huge effort to speak English to me, and I often find little treats left on my desk.

VIFFで大人気の是枝監督、2018年カンヌ国際映画祭の最高賞パルムドールを受賞作「万引き家族」は愛と犯罪、涙、刺激の詰まったほろ苦い物語。少女のゆり（佐々木みゆ）は、虐待を受けている実の家族が良いのか、犯罪者の家族が良いのか？治（リリー・フランキー）と妻の信代（安藤サクラ）が率いる家族の方が、良い選択のように思えるが、それでは物語は終わらない…

by Howard Shimokura On June 15, the third, fourth & fifth roadside interpretative signs out of eight were unveiled to commemorate the three clusters of Japanese Canadian internment camps in the Kootenays: Slocan Extension (Lemon Creek, Popoff, Bayfarm & Slocan…

Dear GVJCCA Members and Community, Hello and greetings from me, Judy Hanazawa as your new GVJCCA President. I again thank past President Lorene Oikawa for her incredible energy and commitment to community, our organization and The Bulletin. As the new…