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The Ito family donated their father's archive with an award for someone to do research and to create a public presentation of Roy Ito's work. I was the recipient of this award proposing an online interactive project that would house three new works in response to an item within his archive.

First of all let me say that what surprised me most about Roy Ito’s diary was its candor and contemporariness. It is full of emotion and humor. At the same time it feels as though it was written for posterity,…

knowing, not knowing 1. I arrive at the archives wondering but not knowing what I would discover or create in response to Roy’s diary only knowing I wanted to be open to the experience of being there with the others…

War clouds loomed ominously over the Pacific in November 1941 as the Japanese Canadian Citizens League held its fifth annual conference in Victoria. Obata wrote to the editor of The New Canadian urging the Nisei to move to Ontario, where…

part of a crowd (two of three poems written on January 20, 2009) 1. as we wait in the cold air with excitement evident on our faces the woman behind me offers a lemon cough drop and I accept there…

From despair to hope: “NABI/Comfort Women” making an emotional connection with the victims by Satoko Norimatsu How do you go on living, when you have experienced suffering and humiliation beyond description? Should you abandon your past and live in the…

Hiroaki Umeda has earned a reputation as one of Japan’s most exciting dance artists, using lighting, projections, self-created music and a powerful dance technique to create striking solo dance pieces. Born in 1977, he studied photography at Nihon University and…

Playwright Toshiki Okada was born in Yokohama City in 1973. While attending Keio University, where he graduated with a business degree, he discovered an affinity for live theatre and was soon writing and directing his own plays. In 1997, he…

The year 2008 was many things but it was certainly not boring. While issues like global warming and the war on terror continued to take up their share of headline space and screen time, there were enough new earth-shaking developments…

When dawn broke on 6 June, it revealed an unforgettable sight: thousands of ships, seeming to reach forever across the sea, with their barrage balloons hoisted to keep off low-flying enemy aircraft. It was with a mixture of excitement and…