President’s Message
Hi Everyone and Happy Year of the Ox! Wow what a month…
The Bulletin
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
The Bulletin
a journal of japanese canadian community, history + culture
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Happy New Year!
If there is one thing that separates childhood from adulthood, it is…
The Advenures of Bean-chan & Wakumi’s World
The Adventures of Bean-chan and Wakumi's World
Read MoreThe Advenures of Bean-chan & Wakumi’s WorldReview : Three Nikkei Books
When dawn broke on 6 June, it revealed an unforgettable sight: thousands…
ALMOND CRESCENTS
Christmas is around the corner now and those of you into baking will be looking for recipes to add to your cookie plates.
I have so many but these are my favourite, so here they are.
Read MoreALMOND CRESCENTSRemembrance Day 2008
Trooper Michael Yuki Hayakaze was killed in Afghanistan on 2 March, 2008…
In Review : Shinju
The experience of Yayoi’s Theatre Movement production of Sonezaki Shinju began as soon as I entered the doors into the Performance Works space. Stepping into the blackness and around a corner, we entered an elegantly sparse box: a place outside of place or time, and filled with expectation.
Read MoreIn Review : ShinjuPresident’s Message
Season’s Greetings everyone! I would like to begin by paying a tribute…
Are Newspapers a Dying Medium?
According to some researchers of pre-war topics such as the history of the famed Asahi baseball club, copies of many of the Japanese-language newspapers that were in publication before World War II have either been destroyed or remain to be “unearthed.” I happen to be translating at the moment a fascinating Meiji era document, which was found by a dedicated researcher at a Nikkei archive centre in San Francsco’s Japan Town.
Read MoreAre Newspapers a Dying Medium?2009 HAIKU INVITATIONAL OPENS
The opening event of the 2009 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (VCBF) is underway, with budding and established poets from around the world invited to submit one unpublished English-language haiku on the theme of cherry blossoms. The deadline for submissions is December 19, 2008.
Read More2009 HAIKU INVITATIONAL OPENSLimelight : Harry Aoki
Harry Aoki, 87 years old and still going strong, was one of the three honourees from the Vancouver Asian community chosen for the North American Association of Asian Professionals (“NAAAP”) Vancouver Venture 2008 Spotlight on Leadership Celebration, held at the CBC building November 5, 2008.
Read MoreLimelight : Harry AokiThe beginning of memory
In the narrative, birds fly above the earth, endlessly circling, with no place to land. When the father of one of the birds dies, the flock is perplexed—there is nowhere to bury him. After some thought, the young bird buries her father in the back of her head. This, says Anderson, is the beginning of memory . . .
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