World Soran! World Soran! is composed of Japanese, Canadians, Japanese Canadians and international members gathered from all over the world! The team aims at facilitating long-lasting friendship beyond borders and collaboratively creating memorable performances. The team performs two dances, Soran-Bushi and Ushibuka Haiya Bushi; both originally a sea shanty. Soran-Bushi, born among herring fishermen in the northern sea of Hokkaido Japan, demonstrates the powerful energy of fishermen battling in the sea, while Ushibuka Haiya Bushi from Kumamoto in southern Japan exhibits how the ladies anxiously yet positively waited for their families to safely come back from the sea. World Soran! pays homage to the early settlers from Japan to Canada most of whom were engaged in the fisheries, and contributes to strengthening the bond of Nikkei communities, and friendship between Canada and Japan into the future.