Read Part 1 >>Title: “Cancer Notice” (butternut wood)
Artists define culture. Nikkei artists have been helping to define ours for generations. A few who have made a personal impact are novelist/poet Joy Kogawa, writer Ken Adachi, American writers “No No Boy” John Okada of Seattle and “Yokohama, California” writer Toshio Mori, Canadian artists Roy Kiyooka, Kazuo Nakamura, architect …
Forgiveness by Toronto Yonsei Mark Sakamoto is a timely book for our community. Now, almost 70 years after World War Two, this will be an important anniversary for all Canadians to reflect on what happened at that terrible time in history. For us, of course, it was more than 70 years …
Read Part 1 >>When I was 48 years old, I went back to the University of British Columbia (UBC) to study the Japanese language and Asian Studies. There I met Professor Rene Goldman who encouraged me to write about my family’s experience during WWII. This was the beginning of my …
“...It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
Read Part 1 >>Your group was involved in an extraordinary fundraising effort for the 3.11 tsunami and earthquake survivors. In response to 3.11 Tohoku earthquake/tsunami disaster, the JCAY (Japanese Canadian Association of Yukon) had organized a Japanese Village Festival, and raised over $40,000 to donate to the Japanese Red Cross. …
Who among us Nikkei has ever wondered about whether our lives might have been ‘better’ had we been raised, educated and worked in Japan?
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