How geopolitical tensions tainted the 2026 Asian Games
Staff
October 9, 2026
Despite the official slogan “imagine one Asia”, fragmented regional politics came to the fore as the event unfolded.
Tag: Japan
VIFF 2025: “Tears Burn to Ash” depicts diaspora’s distance from ancestral homeland
Charlie Smith
October 8, 2025
Veena Yamano plays a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian in her 20s who lands in Tokyo in “Tears Burn to Ash”.
Hiromoto Ida and Lindsay Clague play long-married couple who visit a Vacant Lot in Firehall Arts Centre season opener
Charlie Smith
September 2, 2025
Ida won a 2025 Screen Actors Guild Award with 13 other Shōgun cast members for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Crossing borders, one tile at a time: A personal journey into Taiwan’s ceramic past
Charlie Smith
August 13, 2025
Vancouver TAIWANfest will present an exhibition of 14 sets of tiles collected and curated by author and academic Kenji Horogome.
“For the very first time I really enjoyed sex!”—how lesbian escort agencies became a form of self-care in Japan
Staff
December 24, 2024
The Lesbian Girls Club, an escort agency with branches in Osaka and Tokyo, provides female sex workers for female clients.
As Canada deals with Trump’s tariff threat, Ottawa maintains large cultural trade deficit with several East Asian countries
Charlie Smith
November 29, 2024
After the president-elect promised a 25-percent tariff on Canadian imports, B.C. officials hope to boost trade across the Pacific Ocean.
Hideko Takamine at 100: six of the Japanese actor’s films that captured a nation in flux
Staff
April 12, 2024
Performances by Takamine are like time capsules, offering insights into changing roles and expectations of women in a rapidly evolving Japan.
James Clavell’s Shōgun is reimagined for a new generation of TV viewers
Staff
March 23, 2024
The FX and Hulu historical drama series, Shōgun, was filmed in the B.C. communities of Ucluelet and Port Moody, as well as London, England.
Blue Eye Samurai: Historian explains what the Netflix series gets right and wrong about real Japan
Staff
December 6, 2023
Despite diverging from some of the history, The Blue Eye Samurai is an enjoyable, fairly accurate, and sumptuous tale of Edo-era Japan.
The humiliating downfall of Japan’s Johnny & Associates: fans reckon with sexual assault in entertainment
Staff
October 30, 2023
It seemed that Johnny & Associates would be forever untouchable until the BBC released a documentary in March.
How geopolitical tensions tainted the 2026 Asian Games
Staff
October 9, 2026
VIFF 2025: “Tears Burn to Ash” depicts diaspora’s distance from ancestral homeland
Charlie Smith
October 8, 2025
Hiromoto Ida and Lindsay Clague play long-married couple who visit a Vacant Lot in Firehall Arts Centre season opener
Charlie Smith
September 2, 2025
Crossing borders, one tile at a time: A personal journey into Taiwan’s ceramic past
Charlie Smith
August 13, 2025
As Canada deals with Trump’s tariff threat, Ottawa maintains large cultural trade deficit with several East Asian countries
Charlie Smith
November 29, 2024
James Clavell’s Shōgun is reimagined for a new generation of TV viewers
Staff
March 23, 2024
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.