often accompanied her father to support his training sessions.

Lewis Miesen is a freelance writer and translator who resides in Kyoto.The festival was a means of reconnecting with Japanese arts and traditions as well as an opportunity to teach these traditions to the next generation and to the wider society.

which does not guarantee that one body type will always prevail.Photo taken in the summer of 1942.Due to this extreme disruption to and indeed shattering of their community.

This marked the beginning of the movement of Japanese Canadians to reclaim their cultural identity after decades of cultural assimilation and displacement.Sumos Roots in VancouverArriving with the first immigrants and nearly extinguished in the internment camps during the Second World War.

it is the most recent Japanese martial art to take root overseas.

he has sought to reinvigorate Vancouvers sumo tradition and normalize sumo as just another wrestling style.Shinto Shrine of Shusse Inari in America is the U

Shinto Shrine of Shusse Inari in America is the U.it is a global shrine based in Los Angeles that shares a sustainable Shinto lifestyle in both Japanese and English

“I can’t sit on my couch anymore and pretend it’s not happening.000 gathered for a brief rally before marching down Colorado Blvd.