Originally published on CTVNews.ca Feb. 2019
Solemn ceremonies mark the first anniversary of the March 11th earthquake The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto (JCCC) observed the first anniversary of the March 11 earthquake, and the subsequent tsunami that inundated Japan’s northeastern coastline last year, with an afternoon of prayers, solemn ceremonies and a moment of silence. In his opening address […]
Three Nissei Artists Explore the Lost Secrets of The Royal Cinema Originally published in the November issue of Nikkei Voice, 2011. When the Chinese theatre, Golden Princess, closed its curtains in the early ’90s, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) programmer, Colin Geddes, salvaged hundreds of 35mm Hong Kong and Taiwanese films from the downtown cinema’s […]
Originally published in the February issue of Nikkei Voice, 2012. “Izumi of the North”, Toronto’s favourite — and only — locally brewed sake is now in 70 LCBO stores. Brewed by the Ontario Spring Water Sake Company, the first eastern North American sake brewery, the domestic Japanese rice wine has expanded into more LCBO […]
