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This is the life story of Sadao, who has experienced life on two sides of the Pacific Ocean, or, in the words of Mr. Yusuke Tanaka, a "trans-Pacific voyage".

It’s an experience that is hard to describe, there are so many layers to interacting with a story that is this personal, intergenerational, and marked in parts with silence. In some ways, retelling is reliving

I want to establish my relationship to the bombing of Hiroshima in conversation to the present, and how it spills over time, borders, and culture.

Exquisite Corpse is a game invented in Paris by Surrealists André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, and Marcel Duchamp in the early 1900s. Similar to the old parlour game Consequences, in which players write in turn on a sheet of…

I remember the first time my grandparents, my sister, and I drove by where Tashme used to be on our way into the interior to visit my father’s parents and someone pointed it out. I remember, too, distinctly thinking that “Tashme,” was a Japanese word

by Carmel Tanaka Ever since I was little, I’ve wanted to meet others like me: Jewish and Japanese. So, to celebrate Jewish and Asian Heritage Months in May, I invited all the Jewpanese people I knew in Canada, the US…

GVJCCA AGM The GVJCCA Annual General Meeting is rescheduled to Saturday August 22, 2020 from 1:30pm to 4pm in 1/3 Hall, Nikkei Centre, 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby Please note any Covid19-related space and face mask requirements will be observed. For…

When COVID-19 hit Canada and the rest of the world this spring, Canada’s cultural sector was thrown into a tailspin. Once it became evident that large gatherings would not be possible over the summer, festivals, dance and theatre companies, and…