Canadian World, a theme park in Ashibetsu, in the province of Hokkaido, features a replica of the house, church and school in Anne of Green Gables. It’s part of the widespread Japanese enthusiasm for the carrot-haired heroine, which started in 1939, when a Canadian missionary gave the book to Hanako Muraoka, a mission-school graduate.

Raise your glasses to Canadian peas. Import laws and taxes in Japan have made malt so expensive that Japanese brewers have had to look for a substitute. Sapporo Breweries contacted Parrheim Foods in Saskatchewan and the result is Sapporo Draft One a light, beer-flavoured, pea-protein-derived, five-percent-alcohol quasi-beer. Cheers!

Visitors to Expo 2005 in the Aichi Prefecture in Japan will be able to chat with Canadians in real time from a cyber-salon in one of Canada's three spherical Expo structures. The Expo theme is Nature's Wisdom, and Canada will be showcasing its environmental consciousness, technology and multicultural society.

With screens up to eight storeys high and projectors running film 10 times larger than the conventional 35mm frame, the Imax experience is truly memorable. First presented at Osaka, Japan, during Expo '70, the Imax film technology was invented by Canada's Graeme Ferguson, Robert Kerr, and Roman Kroitor.