Toronto NAJC

06/23/2025

Justice was a long time coming for Brazilians of Japanese ancestry. This is part of the history we are still learning about Brazilian Japanese Canadian community members.

Leaders of the retraction movement witness historic moment (photo: personal archive/Mario Jun Okuhara) Active in the Japanese-descendant community since his adolescence, Mario Jun Okuhara, 50, is an audiovisual producer with over 30 years of experience and a lawyer, coming from a family that has tra...

06/22/2025

Days 2 and 3 of the NAJC Eastern regional gathering were packed with information, networking, sharing, and eating together. We hope there will be more regional gatherings.

06/21/2025

Toronto NAJC participated in an NAJC Eastern chapter gathering in Montréal.

04/08/2025

An intergenerational JC wellness day hosted by and co-funded by the BC Legacy fund, was a great success. Momiji was a great location for Momiji residents to participate. Mitch Miyagawa, filmmaker and artist, showed his film, A Sorry State, and participants reflected on their own stories in word and art (the ances"tree" image drawn by Myriam Verzag). And ate good food by Momiji's Maru Sun, , Sasaki Fine Pastry, and Uncle Tetsu.

08/07/2024

Toronto NAJC was at the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day commemoration at Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square. Remembering that 79 years ago the U.S. dropped devastating atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We pledge: “Today, with people around the world, we commit ourselves to urge states, parliamentarians, and civil society in efforts to stigmatize, prohibit, and eliminate nuclear weapons, for the sake of humanity, and to prevent unthinkable horror before it is too late.”

07/05/2024