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The Legacy of the Cumberland Chow Mein

The popular Japanese Canadian dish, Cumberland Chow Mein, is one of my absolute favourite dishes to eat at family gatherings. My grandpa, Buzz Ogaki, would always take pride in his dish being the most popular offering at the gathering.

Ichiro, Yu Darvish, Godzilla (Hideki Matsui), Daisuke Matsuzaka legendary baseball names – not old names from the sport’s fabled past, but destined for Hall of Fame status no doubt. The four mentioned have or are playing for the storied New…

I was raised to have a strong appreciation for being Japanese. My Japaneseness was separate from the community. My dad raised me to be a respectful person ... but he was kind. Don’t display it.

by Jane CarricoCo-founder, Miyazaki House Society, Lillooet BC Set in the rugged grandeur of the Fraser River canyonlands, the historic goldrush town of Lillooet seems an unlikely location for a priceless Japanese Canadian heritage site – the beautiful nineteenth century…

Kibatsu is a Japanese word denoting a person or thing that is, by ordinary standards, unusual or unconventional—and beginning June 6, the Powell Street Festival Society and The Cinematheque will present a weekly celebration of the unusual and the unconventional…

A quartet comprised of Naomi Sato (sho) and local Japanese musicians Yuriko Nariya (koto), Kozue Matsumoto (koto) and Minoru Yamamoto (shakuhachi) will perform a concert of traditional Japanese music and contemporary Japanese/Canadian compositions.

Renbu Dojo, one of a dozen or so kendo dojos in BC, was founded by Yukio Ara in 1977. Ara had emigrated to Canada from Japan ten years earlier—during Canada’s Centennial—looking for work. As the youngest of five siblings, prospects were not good in postwar Japan,

Legendary dancer Peggy Baker explored the many levels of male-female intimacy throughout Stereophonic, her programme of five magnetic duos which had the highly alert audience applauding each and every time.

Eileen Kage might just be one of the busiest taiko players in the business. Vancouverites have seen her on-stage with Uzume Taiko, Sawagi Taiko, and LOUD, but in Brief Encounters 19, they’ll likely see her as they've never seen her before.

Everyone is invited to attend and share stories of life pre-1942 when approximately 25 Japanese Canadian families employed in the fishing industry lived in the area before being forcibly removed and relocated. They lived in row housing, on BC Packers land on Celtic and Deering Island