Quebec

Gordon Hashimoto

Gordon Hashimoto is a Montreal-based editor, filmmaker and musician. As a student at Concordia University, he variously produced, wrote, directed, and edited a number of experimental short films; as a professional in the filmmaking industry, he works primarily as a picture editor or assistant editor, on such productions as Rene Levesque, Fries with That, and […]

Noriko Imai

Noriko Imai is a painter who was born in Tokyo and raised in Yokohama. She is a member of La Société canadienne de l’aquarelle (THE CANADIAN WATERCOLOR SOCIETY). From a young age, Imai was inspired to paint from the influence of her father and older sisters. After graduating from high school, Imai worked for her […]

Ernie Yamaoka

Ernest (Ernie) Nobuichi Yamaoka was born in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. At fifteen, on December 25, 1920, he made the lonely and arduous sea voyage to Victoria, British Columbia. He began his life in Canada as a houseboy and through hard work and determination earned a high school Governor General’s medal award and a University of […]

Takako Masumoto

Takako Masumoto was a traditional Japanese textile artist, trained in the Ryukyu Bingata style of katazome. Based in the Montreal area, she exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal (1993), as well as a number of group exhibitions celebrating traditional Japanese culture. After mastering the original Ryukyu […]

Mariko Sato

Mariko Sato is a Tokyo-born concert pianist, accompanist, and teacher based in Montreal. She immigrated to Canada at the age of 18 to study music at Laval University in Quebec City, eventually earning both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. She has gone on to an extensive teaching and performance career, performing on three continents and […]

Satoshi Saito

A sculptor, graduate of Keio University and member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Satoshi Saito has been working with Louise Doucet Saito, herself a sculptor, since 1963. In 1965, Satoshi and Louise travelled to Japan at the invitation of Tatsuzo Shimaoka. There they worked to produce two exhibitions of ceramics, in Utsunomiya and […]

Miyo Tominaga

Miyo Tominaga is a tanka poet. She was born on August 6, 1918 in Nagano Prefecture and studied tanka and shodo in Japan. She moved to Quebec in 1987 and was the instructor of a tanka study group in Montreal in the 1990s and a long-time member of the ASUKA tanka group now dissolved. She […]

Michael Fukushima

Over 36 years, Michael Fukushima has been an animator, filmmaker, producer, and head of the NFB’s Animation Studio. He’s a member of the AMPAS® Academy, with over 200 films (and some nice awards) under his belt. Now mostly retired, Fukushima skis, cycles, and cherry-picks projects that interest him and “spark joy”.

Mitsuru Cope

Mitsuru Cope is a Japanese-born ceramicist and painter who trained at Champlain College and Concordia University in Montreal. She has taken part in exhibitions in Quebec, Alberta, and the Czech Republic. Cope was one of six JC participants (with Baco Ohama, Stan Taniwa, Takako Suzuki, Sadashi Inuzuka and Bryce Kanbara) in the momentous ‘Community’ project […]

Nancy Tatebe

Nancy Tatebe was a filmmaker and teaches filmmaking at a college in Montreal. Prior to her teaching career, she worked in the film industry in many capacities, among them as a field producer and production coordinator on both documentary and feature films. As a director, her short films have been screened at festivals across Canada […]

Alan Itakura

Alan Mitsuru Itakura was born on December 16, 1945 in an internment camp in Kaslo, BC just after the end of World War II. Just months after he was born, his family moved to Hamilton, Ontario where he grew up. After graduating from McMaster University (B.Sc. mathematics), he moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1968 to […]