The State Library of Western Australia (SLSW) has acquired a special collection of the business ledgers of Jiro Muramats, a Japanese businessman who lived in Darwin, Northern Territory and Cossack, Western Australia. During World War II, he was interned as an...
This is a recording of a talk given by Nikkei Australia’s founding member Dr Keiko Tamura and Chairperson Elysha Rei about Japanese ‘war brides’ at the Queensland State Archives in Brisbane on 25 August 2023. The event was jointly hosted by the...
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...
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 Joanna Boese My mother, Naomi Boese (née Taguchi) grew up in Tsuyama, Okayama-ken, Japan. Her mother was a housewife and her father was a postal official. Mum was the youngest of four children; the eldest was a girl, and two boys followed. Mum completed high school...
Nikkei Australia’s Elysha Rei’s new exhibition Yohaku no bi28 November 2024
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