Friday, May 11, 1:30pm Lillooet, BC In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment, Honourable Claire Trevena, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, will be unveiling the second of seven Highway Legacy Signs for the Internment Site clusters and Roadcamps for the Self-supporting sites of East Lillooet, Bridge River, Minto, and McGillivray Falls....Continue reading
The National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC), BC Parks and the Columbia Basin Institute are pleased to invite you to attend the Yellowhead Blue River Highway Project’s signage dedication ceremony. Over the past three years, our organizations have worked hard to recognize the contributions Japanese Canadians made to the development of Canada’s highway and the...Continue reading
An NAJC delegation led by President David Mitsui and representatives from the BC Member Organizations (Tsugio Kurushima – Victoria; Rick Ogasawara – Vernon; Lorene Oikawa – Vancouver; Eiko Eby – Nanaimo; George Uyeda – Kamloops) met with BC Premier John Horgan, Parliamentary Secretary for Sport and Multiculturalism Ravi Kahlon, and the Executive Director of Multiculturalism...
The National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kevin Okabe as the new Executive Director, effective May 1, 2018. Kevin, based in Calgary, Alberta, has been actively involved with the Japanese Canadian community at both the local and national levels for over thirty years. Locally, he helped organize Japanese Canadian youth...Continue reading
Dr. Pamela Sugiman PhD. Lecture at the Royal BC Museum By Roy Katsuyama On January 28, 2018, Dr. Pamela Sugiman presented a lecture about the Japanese Canadian internment. The title of the talk was, “Acts of Kindness and Complicity: The silence of bystanders and eyewitnesses to the dispossession and internment of Japanese Canadians” The following synopsis...Continue reading
Japanese aesthetics and approaches to everyday life are apparent in the Japanese subconscious. We as Japanese Canadians are are also affected by these aesthetics and we are often unaware but when we get together as a group to talk about how we would like to be presented to the world through an exhibit at the ROM we become passionate about terminology and the importance of factual representation as opposed to euphemisms to depict the events.Continue reading
CALGARY CJCA is once again participating in National Canadian Film Day. Please come and join us on the weekend of April 14 and 15. Calgary Nikkei Cultural & Senior Centre 2236-29 Street SW, Calgary We will be screening two shows this year: Saturday, April 14 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm “The Whale” This touching documentary...
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced that Midi Onodera is among this year’s winners of the $25,000 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. The prestigious awards are funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, recognizing artistic achievement in visual and media arts and fine craft. Onodera, a JC Toronto media artist,...Continue reading
The Central Vancouver Island Japanese Canadian Cultural Society (aka 7 Potatoes) received a Community Renewal grant. The grant helped us to purchase equipment, supplies, and signage for our events, supported facility rentals and honoraria for paid entertainment to support our six events in the year. The new supplies have enabled us to have better signage...Continue reading