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Tashme Day: Impressive Exhibits Excite and Inspire

“Where in Tashme did you live? Who lived with you? When did you arrive in Tashme? From where?” These are a few of the questions asked of former residents of Tashme where 2,300+ persons of Japanese ancestry were interned during…

In 2000, the Sacred Music Festival featured the world premiere of a piece called Rapprochements (Reconciliations) for Inter-Cultural Orchestra. The composition, by local musician and composer Moshe Denburg, was written for a mixed choir and an ensemble of 28 instrumentalists…

by Masaki Watanabe I became a passionate pro baseball fan when I was still in primary school, over 60 years ago. Back then I knew only Japanese Professional Baseball (hereafter NPB) which was in the first heyday of the Giants…

In early January I opened an email, and as I started to read it, my eyebrows lifted. It was from Mollie McArthur’s daughter, Sandra, asking whether I was Marion Fujino’s son, David.

by Sanae Ohki The organization that is today’s Edmonton Japanese Community Association (EJCA) has its beginning in 1947 when the National Japanese Canadian Citizen’s Association was formed. So, EJCA has 66 years of history. EJCA has held its Board meetings…

It was indeed amazing that democracy was so efficient. Unfortunately, recent events may have coloured the democratic process.

by Jacob Derksen Japan has numerous traditional art forms that have survived into the 21st century. Some have remained if not static then at least very true to their original form. Others have developed in a more dynamic fashion and…

My past two articles here have both unwittingly been about gratitude toward good friends who have passed on – an inevitability that we human beings, especially those of us in the senior age bracket, have to accept philosophically; not that…