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Across Oceans

By Yuki Kawakami My parents met in Osaka when Mum was in her final year of school and Dad was a university student. Mum was an occasional backup singer on TV and graduated with a degree in nihongo (Japanese), while Dad worked as a sales representative for a kimono dress and fabric com
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May 08, 2022
by Nikkei Australia
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Art Gallery of NSW, Asian Australian, Australian Nikkei, bicultural, cross cultural stories, Japan Supernatural, Japanese Australians, Japanese diaspora, Nikkei, nikkei australia, Osaka, Sydney, yuki kawakami

Happy New Year – Nikkei Osechi Ryori in Brisbane / Meanjin by Elysha Rei

明けておめでとございます! Happy New Year! After my eldest son Kairo just finished his year of the Ox, and I am entering the year of the Tiger for 2022, the both of us decided to make our best version of Osechi Ryori. We researched the various dishes online, and sourced as many authentic ingredien
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January 04, 2022
by Mayu Kanamori
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What is Filial Piety for a Mixed Family?

(Tim’s mum, Satsuki Steains with chinsuko made by Felicia La France) My mum said she wanted chinsuko for Mother’s Day. It’s a type of shortbread cookie from Okinawa, Japan, where she was born and grew up. Mother’s day is very close to my Anglo-Australian father’s birthday, so most yea
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October 21, 2021
by Tim Steains
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Hasegawa Monogatari: 5G Over 124 Years by Andrew Hasegawa

SETSUTARO HASEGAWA When Setsutaro died on October 4th, 1952, the Hasegawa family’s relationship with Japan became paper-thin. At the height of the northern hemisphere summer, in August, when Japanese pay homage to their ancestors, no one gathers at his grave. Japanese tradition was lo
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September 29, 2021
by Mayu Kanamori
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Finding Myself in Japan

My parents first met in Japan in the 1960s. Unusual for the time, my father studied Japanese and economics at the Australian National University in Canberra and spent a few months on exchange in Tokyo. For a while he was hosted by my mother’s family, as one of her sisters was studying
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September 03, 2021
by Nikkei Australia
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Interview with Reina Takeuchi

Nikkei Australia’s Timothy Kazuo Steains interviewed Nikkei performance artist, writer and researcher Reina Takeuchi.  Reina’s practice spans across visual arts, choreography, curatorial projects, written publications and creative facilitation, including her work with Asia
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May 06, 2021
by Mayu Kanamori
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Interview with Iori Forsyth

Nikkei Australia member Timothy Kazuo Steains was lucky enough to interview Nikkei Youtube celebrity Iori Forsyth from the channel 大家族フォーサイス家 ! They talked about Iori’s channel and family, having mixed Japanese Australian heritage, and Iori’s plans for moving to Australia.
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May 06, 2021
by Tim Steains
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Interned and Enlisted: Omaye Family History

By Shey Dimon My grandfather Tom (Tomo) was a larrikin; the self confessed black sheep of the family. He liked to ‘stir the pot’ and his deep belly laugh would erupt whenever he sensed some kind of family controversy. Just for fun, he left his fiancee, my Nan, waiting FOR A LONG TIME
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April 27, 2021
by Shannon Whiley
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[Lecture] Keiko Tamura “Life Story of Cross-Border Women: Japanese War Brides in Australia” & Interview with Alumni

【講演会】田村恵子さん「国境を越えた女たちのライフストーリー:オーストラリアの日本人戦争花嫁」&卒業生インタビュー [Lecture] Keiko Tamura “Life Story of Cross-Border Women: Japanese War Brides in Australia” & Interview with Alumni Watch Nikkei Australia’s Dr Keiko Tamura’s zoom presentation about Japanese war bri
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January 20, 2021
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父を語る(About My Father)

By Yuri Furuno My father, Eric Masakazu Shimada (1912-2010), came to Brisbane on a permanent residency visa in December, 1998 at the age of 86. He passed away on the 30th August, 2010. You may think living here for 12 years towards the end of his life would not provide much of a story
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December 17, 2020
by Declan Fleming
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My Life Story by Iseko Williams

My Life Story by Iseko Williams                               Background to this story Iseko Jenny Williams kept an occasional memoir of her life in Japan and Australia. Iseko’s interviewer and biographer, Hiromi Ogata, who interviewed her from August to September 2018, published the
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October 16, 2020
by Yuriko Nagata
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Pearl Hamaguchi’s Oral History from Broome

My name is Pearl Hamaguchi. I was born in Broome in 1940. I live in Broome. I’ve lived nowhere else. My grandmother on my father’s side, Yae Yamamoto, was Japanese. Yae was from Ichoda-mura (now part of Amakusa city), a village on Shimoshima Island, the largest of the Amakusa Islands
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September 11, 2020
by Mayu Kanamori
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The first recorded Japanese in Australia: Steve Dawson’s family story

By Steve Dawson It is a privilege to be able to write about my family’s ancestral Japanese roots, especially given the significance of Sakuragawa Rikinosuke, who is recorded as the first Japanese to settle in Australia.  Technically, this pioneer was my great-great grandfather, but th
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August 29, 2020
by Declan Fleming
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Akane Kanai’s Nikkei family

by Akane Kanai My mother, Yumiko, and my father, Masakazu, met in Sydney in the early 1980s. My dad had dreams of trying something different, separate from his large family in Nagoya; my mother had previously moved to Australia from Tokyo, with her first husband, a clever man named Jo
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August 28, 2020
by Shannon Whiley
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Jim McFarlane’s Nikkei Australian family history

All individuals featured in this article have been approached for permission to be named. My name is Jim McFarlane. My sister Coral and I come from a Japanese mother and an Australian father who met in Hiroshima during our father’s service in the occupation forces in 1952. Setsuko Nak
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April 22, 2020
by Nikkei Australia
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Finding a balance between the two: Interview with artist Mariko Konno

by Timothy Kazuo Steains   I recently interviewed the twenty-seven-year-old Nikkei artist Mariko Konno. We went to the same primary school, all those years ago: SJS or the Sydney Japanese School. It’s a Japanese international school in Sydney, and Mariko and I were in the interna
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December 12, 2017
by Tim Steains
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Story of Hasegawa Family by Andrew Hasegawa

By the time I was born in the early 1960s the long shadow of world war two was starting to fade. The 1950s and 60s saw wave after wave of immigrants arrive in Australia but almost no Asians or Japanese. The white Australia policy still prevailed and if the colour of my skin was anythi
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October 06, 2014
by Nikkei Australia
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Michi’s Memories – The Story of a Japanese War Bride

Michi’s Memories The Story of a Japanese War Bride by Keiko Tamura ISBN 9781921862519 (Print version) $28.00 (GST inclusive) ISBN 9781921862526 (Online) Published September 2011 ANU Press: http://press.anu.edu.au?p=144351 This book tells the story of Michi, one of 650 Japanese war bri
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March 04, 2011
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戦争花嫁 ミチ 国境を越えた女の物語り Japanese language version “Michi’s Memories – The Story of a Japanese War Bride”

Japanese language version: Michi’s Memories – The Story of a Japanese War Bride
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April 11, 2022
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「オーストラリアの日本人」(Japanese in Australia – Japanese footprints over a century)

「オーストラリアの日本人」は、日豪友好記念事業(1996-1998年)の一環として、各州の日本クラブの連合組織「全豪日本クラブ」により、編集・発行された日豪友好
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August 06, 2020
by Nikkei Australia
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Internment Symposium March 2014

Civilian Internment in Australia during WW2 - history, memories and community heritage: this international symposium was held during Cowra's annual Festival of International Understanding March 6-16, 2014 in Cowra NSW.

Keynote Speech by Dr Yuriko Nagata – Internment Symposium
Keynote Speech by Dr Yuriko Nagata - Internment Symposium

Dr Yuriko Nagata’s keynote speech “The Legacy of Internment: shattered lives and lost communities” at Civilian Internment in Australia during WWII: history, memories and community heritage.

Introduction by Dr Keiko Tamura – Internment Symposium
Introduction by Dr Keiko Tamura - Internment Symposium

Dr Keiko Tamura’s introduction at Civilian Internment in Australia during WWII: history, memories and community heritage.

Cowra Unveiling & Commemorative Ceremonies
Cowra Civilian Internment Interpretive Board Unveiling & Commemorative Ceremonies

On 9 March 2014, an interpretive board detailing the internment of Japanese and nikkei civilians during WWII in Australia was unveiled at the Japanese War Cemetery in Cowra, followed by commemorative ceremonies at the Australian War Cemetery,

Former civilian internees
of Tatura Internment Camps
Former civilian internees of Tatura Internment Camps

Former civilian internees of Tatura Internment Camps gather at a symposium: Civilian Internment in Australia during WWII: history, memories and community heritage.


Photo Album: Nikkei Australia Internment Symposium & Unveiling of Civilian Internment Interpretive Board, Cowra, Australia

Symposium – Civilian Internment in Australia during WW2: history, memories and community heritage

 

Unveiling, Civilian Internment Interpretive Board & Commemorations, Cowra Part 1

Civilian Internment Arts Program

Unveiling, Civilian Internment Interpretive Board & Commemorations, Cowra Part 2

 

Recent Posts

Across Oceans
May 08, 2022
戦争花嫁 ミチ 国境を越えた女の物語り Japanese language version "Michi’s Memories – The Story of a Japanese War Bride"
Apr 11, 2022
Re:Fine Dates: Friday 8 - Saturday 9 April
Mar 11, 2022
Free online event (Feb 27): What is Nikkei Food?
Feb 22, 2022
Teiju to wa Nandaro (What does it mean to settle?): Australia
Feb 16, 2022
Happy New Year - Nikkei Osechi Ryori in Brisbane / Meanjin by Elysha Rei
Jan 04, 2022
A Tribute to Noreen Jones (1932-2021)
Oct 29, 2021
日本人と他民族および「同質的」受入社会とのかかわり - 戦前の在オーストラリア日系人の音楽舞踊を中心に - ヒュー・デフェランティ
Oct 27, 2021
The Audibility of Strangers: Music and Disparate Japanese Communities in Prewar "White Australia" - Speaker Hugh de Frranti
Oct 23, 2021
Music and a forgotten minority: primary accounts of Japanese making music in prewar and wartime regional Australia by Hugh de Ferranti
Oct 23, 2021
What is Filial Piety for a Mixed Family?
Oct 21, 2021
Hasegawa Monogatari: 5G Over 124 Years by Andrew Hasegawa
Sep 29, 2021
Finding Myself in Japan
Sep 03, 2021
Interview with Reina Takeuchi
May 06, 2021
Interview with Iori Forsyth
May 06, 2021
Interned and Enlisted: Omaye Family History
Apr 27, 2021
[Lecture] Keiko Tamura "Life Story of Cross-Border Women: Japanese War Brides in Australia" & Interview with Alumni
Jan 20, 2021
Loveday Project by Christine Piper
Jan 04, 2021
Cowra Voices report in Studies in Oral History: The Journal of Oral History Australia
Dec 21, 2020
父を語る(About My Father)
Dec 17, 2020

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