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By David Ikeda. Our counsellors reported that they have become busy recently with several cases involving dementia and Alzheimer’s. Given our community’s aging population, a rise in the number of cases involving seniors with either of these illnesses is to be expected. The cases take a lot of time but as I have said before […]

By David Ikeda The older I get it seems that time goes by increasingly faster and faster. Indeed, time is moving so fast that the topics I am writing about for this message that will be occurring in the future for me now will have already passed before the article is published. At the time […]

It has been an incredibly busy time here over the fall and it’s not even winter yet when we begin preparing the Holiday Drive boxes. For the organization this has been a particularly challenging time.

It is hard to believe that we are starting a new year here at JSS and that I will have completed my first year as president of the organization. The last year was a challenging one for us all here.

It was a busy holiday season at JSS. In the spirit of Christmas and New Years it is a time also for us to give thanks to all of our donors and supporters as well as others who might only be interested in what we do.

The GTA’s Japanese speaking community in a manner of speaking is not so different from any other. All of us go through hardship and as much as we like to think of ourselves as self-sufficient some of us need a little help to get through.

It was about 15 years ago in 1998 while I had been involved in the business world when I started to be get involved with JSS . At the time I had no knowledge about its activities so I took on the position as an observer. Later, about 13 years ago, I accepted the position […]