This trending Reddit thread explains why is Ash Ketchum, the main character from the Pokémon series. I believe this theory is the most logical one out there. It is not uncommon that manga series have […]
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There’s the Asian nerd, Asian baller and Mike Wu is the Asian gangster | Hot Asian Men Friday
In an Asian boy trio, there is always an Asian nerd, an Asian baller and an Asian gangster. And Mike Wu from CantoMando is the last one. He speaks like a rapper from Brooklyn with […]
Joy Kogawa revisits Canada’s past of internment camp in new AR app , “East of the Rockies”
View this post on Instagram “Im grateful that this little story in Canada is not going to be lost.” Experience Joy Kogawa’s Story. Install now! A post shared by East Of The Rockies (@eotr_game) on […]
Japanese sake makers eyes Vancouver market, to expand its international market
VANCOUVER—Earlier this month, 10 craft brewers from the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association visited Vancouver as part of its three-city North American mission to boost exports, according to a report by Vancouver Courier. What’s […]
Going to Karaoke alone is a culture
By reading the title, you might assume that I am writing about those individual karaoke booths that you see trending in Asia. No, I am talking about going to separate karaoke rooms so you can […]
Top 10 2019’s “Jimi” or Mundane Halloween Costumes: The anti-cosplay cosplay phenomena in Japan
Halloween in Japan is different from anywhere else. Unlike in the western countries, majority of people in Japan don’t do ‘trick or treating’ (because that’ll cause meiwaku to your neighbors and that is the last […]
Unearthed Japanese camp found in B.C. mountains, was likely an escape from racism, until internment in 1942
During WW II, twenty-two thousand Japanese Canadians were unfairly uprooted from the coast and sent to internment camp. EDMONTON— Hidden away in British Columbia’s North Shore mountains are the remnants of a Japanese-Canadian logging camp […]
People’s Party of Canada uses photo of Japanese Canadian internment in ad against multiculturalism
An ad released by the Peoples Party of Canada (PPC) against Canada’s official multiculturalism policy has sparked criticism for its confusing use of a photo of the Japanese Canadian internment during the Second World War. […]
Unfortunately, it’s Sexist: SHe, at the Mulan Film Festival
“In a totalitarian and male chauvinist world, a female high-heeled shoe named HUA Mulan rebels against the baby shoe factory to protect her baby girl from being transformed into a male shoe. To raise her […]
An Oppressive Kind of Calmness: The Little Shrimp at the Mulan International Film Festival
The young Cantonese director, CHEN Zhilin “Chilam”’s debut feature-length film captures an unspoken sense of vulnerability of Cantonese youths experience, returning to their hometowns for a break from studying abroad. The familiar homes they return […]