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Raymond Moriyama's Sakura Ball Speech - Part 1
Norm Masaji Ibuki
One of the most famous Canadian Nisei names is that of Raymond Moriyama, the internationally renowned architect of the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, the new Canadian War Museum in Ottawa and the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.
NAJC President Terumi Kuwada Interview
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Come this fall, Terumi Kuwada, 63, the current National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) will be stepping down to make way for her successor.
My Aunt Hiroko Nagaike Sensei - Part 2
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Read Part 1 >>Sensei’s eldest son, Fumiyasu, 61, is now the official head of the clinic, carrying on in traditional fashion. Her two other sons are also doctors: Yasuo is a dentist in Tokyo and Hiroshi has his own clinic in Saitama. However, the future of the women’s clinic is …
My Aunt Hiroko Nagaike Sensei - Part 1
Norm Masaji Ibuki
One of the greatest laments that I have for the pre-WW2 immigrant generation is that our connections with Japan have largely disappeared.
Remembering Thomas Makiyama Sensei
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Whenever I go back to Japan these days, it is really with more of a sense of mission, reevaluating my relationship with Japan and my identity of which being Nikkei is significant.
“I am an American first and foremost and I am black” -- American Enka singer Jero
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Today, in the uniquely traditional world of Japanese enka, there is no bigger new name than Jero.
The Artistry of Kimiko Koyanagi
Norm Masaji Ibuki
Even long after I’ve seen them, some of the sculptured figures that artist Kimiko Koyanagi has created haunt me in the way their long vertical lines rise upward and finding their nadir of expression in faces that are contemplative, inward feeling, seeking some kind of inner peace.