By Shey Dimon (Read how Shey began her search for her long lost family here) The email header read, ‘I’ve found your family’. I think I stopped breathing at that moment. I quickly opened the email. ‘I’ve found him!’ The email from Yuki, my contact at the Wakayama...
By Amanda O’Connor My grandfather is Hajime Fujimoto, though he appears as ‘Hajima’ on some documents. He was born in Kumamoto Prefecture in the late 1800s. The date of birth on his Certificate of Alien Registration is 17 March 1881, however...
Nikkei Australia’s Dr Yuriko Nagata (University of Queensland) will discuss the book, Four Years in a Red Coat, Translation of Miyakatsu Koike’s Loveday diary, (Wakefield, 2022) edited by Prof Peter Monteath (Flinders University) and Dr Nagata at the Showa Era...
by Andrew Hasegawa In July, I embarked on a six-day road trip, in search of intellectual stimulation and new experiences. I left Melbourne for the first time in two and a half years and headed to Adelaide where I attended a symposium on Japanese war-art hosted by...
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...
By Nikkei Australia founding members I first met Noreen in 2002 when I launched her book, No. 2 Home: A Story of Japanese Pioneers In Australia. Unfortunately, I did not get to spend much time with her until a few years before I retired in 2013. After that, Noreen and...
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