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Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre Celebrates 20th Anniversary in Style

A full program of activities for the 20th anniversary celebration at New Denver’s Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre on August 9 demonstrated the profound contribution

Now in its fourth year, Hapa-palooza Festival is Canada’s largest festival celebrating and stimulating awareness of mixed heritage and hybrid identity.

For the past three years, a group of youth associated with the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) have been working to address the dearth of young people in leadership positions. A youth meeting and digital storytelling workshop at the…

“How do we get young people interested and involved?” Anyone with a more-than-superficial involvement in the Japanese Canadian community has heard this refrain . . .

2014 Japanese Canadian Young Leaders Conference

Between September 19 and 21st, Japanese Canadian young leaders from across the country will gather in Vancouver for the 2014 Japanese Canadian Young Leaders Conference (JCYLC). Organized in partnership with the National Association of Japanese Canadians’ annual general meeting, the…

It’s been the world’s longest road trip but thanks to the Vancouver Canadians the Asahi baseball team will be returning home to Vancouver’s Nat Bailey Stadium.

by Rei Kitano With 54 entries and nearly 2,700 participants, the sixth Annual Canada Day Parade, celebrating Canada’s diversity and unique multiculturalism, drew one of the largest crowds ever. Vancouver Ondo, with close to 200 people in vibrant coloured yukatas…

A recent article in uk.news.yahoo.com looks at “the changing DNA of Japanese pop culture” through fashion icons like Rola, a model of Bengali, Japanese and Russian descent. The piece points to a shifting landscape that has had a positive effect…

Dear People of this Territory, Respected Elders, Friends in the Downtown Eastside Community & Beyond We humbly ask for your support to raise a Survivors Totem Pole in the Downtown Eastside (DTES), Unceded Coast Salish Territory in September 2014. We…

Singers and drummers led the massive dinner crowd through the entrance to the large hall at the Musqueam Community Centre in Vancouver. As the people found their way to the tables and settled into their chairs, the singing and drumming…