a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
Hastings Park Committee Meeting Report By Judy Hanazawa The Hastings Park Project Committee met on May 14, 2012 to review project developments and next steps. Plaque relocation costs We received an estimate from JB Newall Granite Works indicating the relocation…
YO-IN Reverberation, the current exhibit at the Nikkei National Museum, features the work of eight Japanese Canadian artists spanning several generations and time zones. The artists—Nobuo Kubota, Cindy Mochizuki, Kazuo Nakamura, Emma Nishimura, Jon Sasaki, Louise Noguchi, Aiko Suzuki and…
Prior to World War II and the war in the Pacific, Tosh Suzuki’s parents grew strawberries, raspberries and rhubarb on 16 acres of land in Pitt Meadows. In 1942, when Tosh was seven years old, the farm was confiscated by…
Over two weekends in May (May 11-13 & May 18-20), the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre on East Hastings Street played host to a remarkable theatrical/cultural experience—Storyweaving: Weaving First Nation Memories from the Past into the Future. Storyweaving, which involves a…
Sustaining Japanese Canadian Community in Vancouver for Nikkei, Immigrants, and Sojourners by Etsuko Kato Senior Associate Professor of Anthropology, International Christian University, Japan “Community” is a difficult word to translate into Japanese. Unlike its approximate translation in Japanese, “kyodotai,” which…
The ringing of the bronze temple bell on New Year’s eve is a time of reflection on the past. The sound of the bell slowly fades away until it is only a memory. This fading sound is called yo-in. It…
