President’s Message
Hi everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying the warm weather and looking…
The Bulletin
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
The Bulletin
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
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Community Kitchen
Sunny days means time to bring out new beef recipes for barbecue.
Here’s a dish that can be barbecued outdoors or on an electric grill. You marinate the meat for 3 hours before cooking.
Read MoreCommunity KitchenTatsuo Kage: Chronicling Japanese Canadians in Exile
This expulsion of Canadian residents of Japanese ancestry was a continuation and extension of the policy of removal and incarceration of Japanese Canadians which started right after the beginning of the Pacific phase of the Second World War in December 1941.
Read MoreTatsuo Kage: Chronicling Japanese Canadians in ExileYO-IN Reverberation
The ringing of the bronze temple bell on New Year’s eve is…
CRAZY ABOUT KABUKI
Male-form dances are active and fun, and you can actually portray female characters within them. In Kuruwa hakkei (Eight Views of the Pleasure Quarter), the main character is a man who goes to the Pleasure Quarter.
Read MoreCRAZY ABOUT KABUKIHiromi Goto: Darkest Light
Half World took over eight years to write so when I had finally completed it I was very much ready to move on. But my editor gently asked me if there could be another Half World book and after a little time had passed I knew that there could.
Read MoreHiromi Goto: Darkest LightGreenwood-Midway: My Home, My Furusato
Following the success of my book, Hanatare Bozu, I would like to make my next project a book called Greenwood-Midway: My Home, My Furusato.
Read MoreGreenwood-Midway: My Home, My FurusatoUncovering the past: just beyond hope
by Kenji Maeda As a second-generation Japanese Canadian, I admit I sometimes…
a vote for democracy
Given the lengths that previously-disenfranchised groups of people in Canada have gone through to get the right to vote, you’d think more people would cherish the right to have a say in who runs their city, their province and their country.
Read Morea vote for democracyFrom New Orleans to Singapore To Vancouver . . . My Mini Jazz Odyssey
Basin Street Blues is one of the most popular New Orleans jazz…
President’s Message
It’s been a full decade that the Canadian Government has recognized Asian Canadians’ contributions to Canada and the world. Here in Vancouver, we are blessed with our rich diversity of Asian cultures, enriching us socially, culturally, and economically.
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With barbecue season coming up, this is a easy chicken recipe. My son was going to come over for dinner on Thursday, so I was going to marinate the chicken overnight but he couldn’t make it till Saturday so I kept turning the chicken in the marinade for three nights and was it ever the tenderest, melt in the mouth chicken I ever cooked.
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