Navigating the Crossroads – The Japan Society

Canada’s 2025 Election and Trump 2.0: Implications for North America and beyond Thursday, February 13, 2025 5:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m. Register Here >> Bennett Jones LLP | Canada Boardrooms  100 King St W Suite 3400, Toronto, ON M5X 1A4 If you have any questions, please contact us. 2025 promises to be a year of significant...

Recent trends in cyber attacks: mitigating, assessing, and responding to cybersecurity risks

Recent trends in cyber attacks: mitigating, assessing, and responding to cybersecurity risks The Japan Society is a national non-profit organization based in Toronto, dedicated to promoting bilateral business relations between Canada and Japan since 1989. Asami Okusawa, Executive Director of the Japan Society, extends an invitation to friends at the National Association of Japanese Canadians...Continue reading

An Indigenous Awareness Training – June 2024

We are delighted to have Bob Goulais, an Anishinaabe from Nipissing First Nation to help enlarge our awareness of the contemporary impacts and legacy of Indian Residential Schools, the 60s Scoop and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. We will learn principles of cultural safety and allyship that support Reconciliation and ways of working...Continue reading

2024 Japanese Canadian Young Leaders Conference: Registration now open!

The NAJC’s Young Leaders Committee is bringing back the Japanese Canadian Young Leaders Conference for the first time since the pandemic! The Japanese Canadian Young Leaders Conference is a weekend-long conference to connect, educate and learn from young Japanese Canadians or Nikkei involved with the Japanese Canadian community. We want to bring young community leaders...Continue reading

“Seagrass” Ticket Giveaway!

We’re thrilled to celebrate the release of “Seagrass,” a captivating film by the talented Japanese Canadian filmmaker, Meredith Hama-Brown. The National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) is giving away tickets for an exclusive viewing experience in Toronto (TIFF Lightbox) and Vancouver (Cineplex 5th Avenue). How to Enter: 1.Compose an email to [email protected] 2. Use the...Continue reading

East Tribute Game and Community Fair

Led by our Next Generation team, this community building event honours Roger Obata, the founding president of the NJCCA-NAJC. Obata organized games between JC and Indigenous teams in the 1930s in Prince Rupert, BC. An outgoing, team player through his lifetime, Obata was VP of the NAJC when redress was achieved. It will be a...Continue reading

90 Seconds to Midnight: Nuclear Weapons & Climate Change

Support us & join us in peace for the in-person commemoration ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki: “90 Seconds to Midnight: Nuclear Weapons & Climate Change” Sunday 6 August 2023 4:00 – 9:00 PM EDT The Peace Garden on Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square Registration link: www.tinyurl.com/90secondstomidnight 4:00...

A Question of Loyalty – online presentation

A QUESTION OF LOYALTY Questions 27 and 28 Presentation & Discussion Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 7pm – 8:30pm EST Insights into the Japanese American experience during World War Two and a discussion about the differences between the treatment of Japanese Canadians and Japanese Americans during this time, with Professor Tak Fujitani of the University of...

Toronto NAJC Freedom Day Luncheon

FREEDOM DAY 2020 A LUNCHEON  On April 1, 1986 a celebration of “Freedom Day” was held at Toronto City Hall.  This event commemorated April 1, 1949, the day Canadian citizens of Japanese Ancestry attained the right to vote and the freedom to live anywhere in Canada. While Redress had not yet been achieved this celebration marked...

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