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The Canadian Ethnic Media Association’s 39th Annual Awards Gala, held in Toronto on Friday, November 24, was a resounding success. It attracted large audience that included not only the award winners, but also a number of federal and provincial politicians. 

The CEMA Documentary Award winner is Jinung Chung, Producer, JbyJ Video Production, for the documentary “Me and My Harmonica” the inspiring story of one man’s efforts to bring peace and harmony to the world. 

The Japan Society is proud of Mr. Chung, one of the Members'  recognized great work as well as recipient of the award, and Mr. Sid Ikeda another Member who was featured in the documentary. The Japan Society would like to invite you to celebrate this occasion and appreciate dedicated contribution of Japanese Canadians.

About the documentary: Me & My Harmonica

Documentary, 15 min, English, 2017

As a Japanese Canadian growing up in the 1940s, Sid Ikeda experienced first-hand the trauma of discrimination, when his family was forced into internment camps during WWII. Now in his eighties, Sid embarks on a journey to bring peace and harmony to people of all nations and generations by way of a small but mighty instrument: the harmonica.

Produced by JbyJ.

Trailer is available here.

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Nixon Honey Farm is a family farm which has been in business for about 20 years. Our farm was started by my Father, Bryan Nixon. At this time, my brother Craig and I, Kevin Nixon, now operate Nixon Honey Farm. We are based in Alberta, Canada and we focus on providing honeybees for pollination of crops in Alberta as well as producing large volumes of 100% pure honey. We are a commercial honeybee farm producing approximately 500,000 kg of honey per year, most of which is exported. When my father started the farm we started off as a fairly small farm company with only 400 hives of bees, today we operate many thousands of hives. We remain a family company and we also have 20 employees during the production season. 

When we first started our farm, our honey was generally sold to packaging companies either in Canada or in the United States. We also package a little bit for local/domestic sales as well. As our company has grown and we have large volumes of honey to sell, we needed to investigate new and growing market opportunities. Over the past number of years, Japan has been the second largest export market for Canadian honey. For this reason, it made sense for us to investigate the Japanese honey market further. We are fortunate here in Alberta to have a provincial government office which is dedicated to advancing the trade relationship with Japan through the Alberta Japan Office with representatives both here in Alberta as well as in Tokyo. Through communicating with the trade office, Nixon Honey Farm was able to participate in a trade mission to the Osaka region as well as Tokyo. By doing this, we were able to directly meet and communicate with potential customers. It was at this point where things fell into place for us to begin exporting directly to Japan. Our customers have subsequently visited our production facility here in Alberta and we have continued to return to Japan to visit our customers. 

It is an honor and a privilege to be able to be a honey supplier to the Japan market and we look forward to continue and grow our export business with Japanese customers and build relationships for the long term success for everyone. We look forward to being a member of The Japan Society and learning more about the organization.  

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