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Jewpanese Cooking with Carmel Tanaka

Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Class Jewpanese Cooking with Carmel Tanaka by Amy Newman and John Endo Greenaway On August 24, we had the pleasure of attending one of JCCA’s Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Classes at Tonari Gumi. The class was…

When San Jose Taiko (SJT) performed at the 1979 Powell Street Festival, it set off reverberations that would end up echoing across the Japanese Canadian and broader Vancouver community for generations. The group of young people drumming on stage exuded…

The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA), Tonari Gumi (TG), and the Vancouver Japanese Language School-Japanese Hall (VJLS-JH) would like to warmly welcome Michael Tora Speier to the Heritage Cooking Classes team. Michael brings to this project over a…

Coming back to Canada, Nanaimo was a tough city. He was an oceanographer, and we had a place on Gabriola Island where he has always been on his free time.

by John Endo Greenaway Henry Shimizu was fourteen when he and the rest of the Shimizu family were uprooted. Unable to return to BC, the family moved to Edmonton in 1946. There, Henry graduated in medicine in 1954, going on…

The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s 10th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival (TJFF) will be presented in a hybrid format from June 5 to 27, 2021. During this period, TJFF screenings will be held online, with select onsite screenings at the…

I’m listening to the My Sisters Knows Why podcast, where Ang and Claud are talking about mochi and its relationship to Japanese Canadian traditions and culture, before moving on to obon, and then the Japanese Canadian picnic at the Toronto Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.

I was honoured to serve as guest host for On Memory, Mythmaking, and Community Resilience. The theme of the session emerged out of recent work I have been doing and conversations I have been having.

On March 11, 2011, Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake that caused extensive damage to the Great Eastern region. The ensuing tsunami swallowed up coastal towns, and caused irrevocable damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In the…

The second session of the Paueru Gai Dialogues was held online on Saturday, February 27, 2021. On Food & Culture for Community Building was hosted by erica hiroko isomura, who facilitated a discussion with panelists Carmel Tanaka, Kage, and Ingrid…