A Canadian has died in Japan from complications related to COVID-19, Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne said. Deeply saddened to learn of the death of a Canadian in Japan from complications related to #COVID19. Our […]
Author: Maari Sugawara(Managing Editor)
Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
This book by celebrated anthropologist Mary Douglas tackles one of the questions that I have a personal interest in: contagion and purity and danger. Lots of fertile ideas for understanding Korean ethno-nationalism, although its ideas […]
Asian Female Artists You Should Be Listening To Right Now
March is Women’s History Month, the perfect time to hit play on any one of these amazing songs made for, by, or about Asian women. But please note: this is in no way the definitive […]
The Rising Wasabi: The Best Site for Real Fake News
“The Rising Wasabi is Japan’s premium satirical news publication covering the latest from the land of the rising sun and current events from around the globe.” The site, which also has a popular page on […]
Expect an early start to Japan’s Sakura Season
You can tell spring has arrived when its cherry blossoms bloom. It’s only January, but some sakura trees are already 50-percent in full bloom in Japan. Each year, the sakura bloom on different dates depending […]
Weathering With You Overcomes Your Name’s U.S. Box Office Records
The wait is finally over! Weathering With You has already hit the ground floor running in North America following its release to theaters across the hemisphere and fans are taking notice. GKIDS brought Makoto Shinkai’s […]
The magazine retailed by homeless people, the ‘Big Issue Japan’—magazine’s attempt to help them help themselves
Being homeless carries a powerful stigma in Japan, where society places strong importance on self-reliance. This October, in the midst of Japan’s worst storm in decades, homeless men were turned away from shelters. According to […]
Little Miss Period: the manga challenging Japan’s stigma around menstruation
A manga character shaped like a pink blob with bright red lips is challenging stigmas surrounding menstruation in Japan. But not everyone is convinced that Little Miss Period—Seiri chan—is a force for good. The live […]
Vancouver’s Japanese Hall designated a national historic site Social Sharing
A building in Vancouver housing Canada’s oldest Japanese-language school has been designated by the government as a national historic site, according to a report by CBC. A ceremony was held Wednesday at the Vancouver Japanese […]
Noko Nishigaki, Japan’s 10 year-old artist
View this post on Instagram A post shared by noko_tattoo (@noko_tattoo) on Nov 16, 2019 at 9:30am PST 10-year-old Noko Nishigaki. while she appears to be your average Japanese cute 10-year-old (or maybe not, since […]