a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
Coming To Terms With Rev. G.G. Nakayama’s Sexual Abuse Of Community Members by Alan Itakura The following article was published in the English Montreal Bulletin July-August 2018 about Japanese Canadian Working Group members Wendy Matsubuchi Bremner and Judy Hanazawa presenting…
With multi-year funding from Vancouver Foundation, Powell Street Festival (PSFS) and WePress Community Arts Space Society are sharing art-making skills and strengthening community connections in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). This exciting partnership between the well-established Japanese Canadian arts and culture…
by Masaru Edmund Nakawatase I first met Tamio Wakayama in the winter of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. We were both very recent volunteers for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) which was regarded accurately as the youngest and most militant…
This is the eight consecutive year that we will be selling SPAM® Sushi or SPAM® Musubi at the Powell Street Festival. It is referred as SPAM® Musubi in Hawaii where it is extremely popular. Mususbi is known in the Shintō…
沖縄の鼓魂 Okinawan Kodama: A Celebration of the Heart, Soul and Spirit On Friday, August 4, Metro Vancouver audiences will be treated to a feast of Okinawan drumming and dancing as the eisa group Requios and friends take over the stage of the…
Undertow RM Greenaway A B.C. Blues Crime Novel (Dundern, 2017) review by Colleen Tsoukalas Undertow is Canadian, local to West Coasters and written by a woman who has many years of experience working in the court system. The language of the…
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser, naturalist, 1917. If Dreiser is right, then there will be much honey stored in the new Japanese Canadian Artist Directory. It is a cross-Canada venture to establish an electronic…
On June 15, 2015 the Anglican Diocese of Calgary and New Westminster gave their apology to survivors, their families, friends and the Japanese Canadian community for the sexual abuse perpetrated upon community children, mostly boys, by Goichi Gordon Nakayama. Their…
His blog is called Letters from Santa, he favours bow ties, plays the cello (well), and has an engaging smile and personality. He also tweets with the best of them. As the newly-minted President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of…
