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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Remembering 3.11 in 2016: Tohoku no Shingetsu - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> When can we expect to see Tohokuno Shingetsu here in Canada? Hopefully this fall at the Vancouver International Film Festival. We will ...

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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Remembering 3.11 in 2016: Tohoku no Shingetsu - Part 1

This year, March 11th marks the fifth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the coastal Tohoku Region in Japan, wiping out towns and ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Lorne Spry On Being a Blue-eyed Canadian Living in Sendai, Japan

The intent of this series to look a little more closely at the Nikkei community from a cultural perspective that is not often heard from ...

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Japan Journal

Growing up Korean in Japan - Part 2 of 2

Read part 1 >>Hearing Joomi’s story reminded me of my own restless feelings growing up yearning to melt into the Canadian mainstream, to be ...

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Japan Journal

Talking With A “Returnee” - Part 1 of 2

One of the most interesting and obscure chapters of Canadian Nikkei history is the one of the “returnees” to Japan, prior to, during and, mostly ...

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Jack Muro: Still Patriotic After All

“Give me liberty or give me death!” was the climactic closing statement of a speech given by Patrick Henry, in 1775, as one of the ...

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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Ohama’s Cloth Letter Tour Begins in Vancouver - Part 2 of 2

Read Part 1 >> GRANDDAUGHTER INSPIRED PROJECT Q: Why do you want to bring the letters back to Canada now? The first cloth letter was made ...

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Japan Journal

Learning Japanese

Aikido, reading, and learning Japanese are the main ways I try to understand the complicated cartography of being Nikkei. I’m now enrolled in the ...

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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Monkey Majik and the Yoshida Brothers’ “SOS Tohoku Relief Tour”

     “I was scared of old, distant memories      Now I’ve become strong and tall      If the night will      even if there is nothing left in ...

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Japan Journal

Jazz in Sendai with Kei Akagi

I recently met jazz pianist Kei Akagi quite by chance. My school recently got a distinguished new student, Masao Honma, a Sendai-based classical music composer ...