Japanese eki stamps (station stamps) are a charming feature of Japanese railway culture. Beloved by visitors and oshi-tetsu (train-stamp nerds) alike, collecting them as you make your way around ...

Other Japanese -language newspapers were shut down after the outbreak of war. More than 22,000 Japanese Canadians in B.C. were ordered detained and sent to internment and work camps far from the ...

Page 1 of The New Canadian newspaper from December 12, 1941, after the Pearl Harbor attack. More than eighty years ago, Japanese Canadians came together to sustain the New Canadian, ...

VANCOUVER – More than eighty years ago, Japanese Canadians came together to sustain The New Canadian, the only newspaper specifically for the community that was allowed to be published through t ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter.. An important piece of Japanese Canadian history is at risk of disappearing from BC.

Japanese custom hanko stamp makers Shiroyama Hakubundo recently released a collection of cat-inspired hanko stamps on May 27 called Neko no Sanpo Hanko, or “Cat Walk Hanko”, and the fun factor makes ...

The Japanese-Canadian example showed that legitimate national security concerns can slide all too easily into authoritarian responses.

His Japanese Canadian family was interned during World War II. That experience inspired him to create inviting buildings for all people. Raymond Moriyama, considered one of Canada’s most ...

On a warm spring day in 1942, Margaret Ridgway believed she heard God telling her to leave her home in Vancouver, Canada, and move to a Japanese internment camp.

Shizuko Kadoguchi arranging flowers in an Ikebana workshop, 1964. (Courtesy: Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre) He says the organization has worked to broaden the lens to focus on contemporary ...

Nomoto: A BC tragedy, a new documentary premiering at the New West Film Festival 2022 by filmmaker Chad Townsend, tells the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, a Japanese-Canadian man whose internment during the ...