ジョージ･ヒューソン
(George Hewson)
ジョージ・ヒューソンは、ロイヤル・オンタリオ博物館の教育部門の教師で、日本と中国のギャラリーを専門としています。彼と妻のゲリー（旧姓西村）は、日本の武術と東アジアの哲学を学ぶ学校、合気道清心会を運営しています。
2008年7月更新
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The Japanese Sword
2008年8月29日 • ジョージ･ヒューソン
On Saturday, October 28, 2006 there was a demonstration of various aspects of the Japanese sword at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto. The featured guest was Jirokunisetsu Kiyota Sensei a master swordsmith from Japan. Also presenting were David Pepper, Doug Blain, and the JCCC Iaido Club. In the morning, Doug Blaine, from Guelph, explained his role as a sword polisher. He takes old or damaged swords and restores their looks by painstakingly grinding them a few centimeters at …
Remembering the 1907 Vancouver Race Riot
2008年7月31日 • ジョージ･ヒューソン
September 7, 2007 marked the 100th anniversary of the “Anti-Oriental Riot” that took place in Vancouver. Hundreds of white Canadians, many of them recent immigrants or the children of immigrants marched into the Chinese and Japanese communities of the city. They beat up Asians and destroyed property in an organized act of vandalism. It was a fairly minor incident compared to the kinds of violence that occurred elsewhere in the world around the same time. For example, in 1905 protesting …
