Hot on the heels of our incredible first-ever speaker event on Nov. 27, JETAA is already gearing up for the second in our speaker series in January. Join JETAA Toronto as we welcome Jeff Minthorn, founder and editor of Verge Magazine.
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It was an emotional and inspirational day for those who made it to the Japan Information Centre on November 27 to hear Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow speak.
Diminutive, and eloquently spoken, Mrs Thurlow treated the crowd to a screening of the 2009 documentary, “Flashes Of Hope”, in which she and 102 other Hibakusha travelled for four months on the Peace Boat to share their first-hand accounts and their desire to never again see nuclear war on this planet.
Setsuko Thurlow was a 13-year-old schoolgirl in Hiroshima, when the first ever wartime Atomic bomb was dropped on her home city on Aug. 6, 1945. Working in a building near…
{besps}2010re-entryseminar{/besps} JETAA Toronto's 2010 Career and Re-Entry Conference at the Japan Foundation was another successful edition of one of our most important events. Fourteen participants interacted with 8 JETAA…
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On All Hallow’s afternoon, somewhere north of Yonge & Finch, patrons of Newtonbrook Bowlerama were shocked to see a born again bible-thumper throwing down the strikes and spares alongside Chun Li, Snow White, the late Jacko (R.I.P.), Dr. Kevorkian, an anime princess and several cuddly critters. And then there was that housecoat-clad “Dude” who couldn’t seem to find the pins to save his white Russian-drinking life.