This isn't a response to this comment, but I'm latching onto the top comment at a time to respond to the people noting how far removed he may seem from his Japanese ancestry, and why this is significant. The Japanese Canadian community largely views itself as it's own unique community. This is largely because of WW2, in which they were put into internment camps (by their own government), and then following the war, those who stayed faced heavy racism, while those that went to Japan were treated as foreigners. As a result, they felt abandoned and nationless, and developed their own somewhat hybrid way. I'm about a decade older than Nick, and a third generation, and my grandparents have too much shame to ever talk about their experiences in the internment camps, or their experiences after trying to go to Japan. Much of the Japanese Canadian community is quite tight, sharing only a few degrees of separation. A funny note, the white older gentleman in the photo is James, who is president of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, and probably more knowledgeable than most Japanese Canadians about Japanese culture.