(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

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

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.

【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

Cowra Voices report in Studies in Oral History: The Journal of Oral History Australia, Issue – No. 42, 2020 Intimate Stories, Challenging Histories Editors: Carla Pascoe Leahy and Skye Krichauff Report by Mayu Kanamori Free download from Oral History Australia Website: https://oralhis

Cowra Voices recognised by 3 History Awards Cowra Voices has been recognised in three history awards this year. Winner of the Oral History NSW Community History Award 2020.  Honorable Mention in the History Council NSW Awards 2020 Highly Commended in the National Trust Heritage Awards

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

Reading Embraced by Australia Hiroshima Modules 1 and 2  by: Carol Hayes, Yuki Itani-Adams Hiroshima Modules 1 and 2 provide a first-hand account of surviving Hiroshima’s atomic bomb. This eText is the first volume of an advanced Japanese language comprehension series aimed firs

Yushiro Mizukoshi, Vice President of Japan Club of Sydney and Nikkei Australia member, speaks with SBS reporter Hisaaki Nagao about the making and recent digitisation of Japanese in Australia – Japanese footprints over a century. https://www.sbs.com.au/language/japanese/audio/a-japane

By Christine Piper On the 31st August 2020, The Nippon Foundation announced the results of its Global Nikkei Young Adult Identity Project. Jointly facilitated by the Japanese American National Museum, it is the first large-scale study to look at what it means to be Nikkei. The project