An interesting art project spearheaded by Japanese Canadian artist and film-maker Linda Ohama is currently being displayed at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. The Canada-Tohoku Kids to Kids Cloth Letters is a response by Canadian young people from the ages of 3 to 17 to the earthquake and tsunami that rocked northern Japan on March 11. The children painted messages on cloth squares to disaster victims in the Tohoku region to express their sympathy for them. The letters were assembled into a giant quilt and sent to the area. In response, children in Miyagi created their own quilt with squares donated to them by children in Onomichi in Hiroshima prefecture, the ancestral home of Linda Ohama’s grandmother. Together the two quilts are now on display at the Canadian Embassy until the end of this year. Plans are afoot to tour the quilts in Canada after the new year. For more information about this interesting project, see Norm Ibuki’s interview of Linda Ohama on the Discover Nikkei website.