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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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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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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 which trace back to Sakuragawa Rikinosuke, the first recorded Japanese immigrant to take up residence in Australia. Technically, this pi
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August 29, 2020
by Declan Fleming
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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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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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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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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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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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[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
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January 20, 2021
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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
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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

[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
Cowra Voices recognised by 3 History Awards
Nov 26, 2020
My Life Story by Iseko Williams
Oct 16, 2020
Reading Embraced by Australia Hiroshima Modules 1 and 2  by: Carol Hayes, Yuki Itani-Adams
Oct 15, 2020
Yushiro Mizukoshi speaks with SBS - Japanese in Australia – Japanese footprints over a century goes online
Oct 09, 2020
Study finds positive outlook for Nikkei worldwide
Sep 18, 2020
Pearl Hamaguchi's Oral History from Broome
Sep 11, 2020
Interview with Ida Hasegawa on Hasegawa Family History
Aug 31, 2020
The first recorded Japanese in Australia: Steve Dawson's family story
Aug 29, 2020
Solrun Hoaas / After Tatura - Unrealised film footage at NFSA
Aug 29, 2020
Akane Kanai’s Nikkei family
Aug 28, 2020
Bridging Australia and Japan: Volume 2 The writings of David Sissons, historian and political scientist
Aug 24, 2020
Staying till the End? Japanese Later-Life Migrants and Belonging in Western Australia
Aug 19, 2020
Radio documentary tells the story of Japanese POWs and internees in Hay, a small town in NSW
Aug 17, 2020
Nikkei Australian Identity
Aug 12, 2020
Nikkei Block Party Week 7 - as part of JAMPilgrimages Tadaima!
Aug 10, 2020
Japanese in Australia - Japanese footprints over a century now digitised
Aug 07, 2020

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