by Shannon Whiley On 22 March 2024, the Consulate General of Japan in Brisbane hosted a reception acknowledging and celebrating the long history of Japanese migration to Australia. The reception focused on the early waves of immigration, beginning in 1873 with the...
Photo: A defence minute paper stamped with ‘MOST SECRET’ that details the decision made by the Australian Cabinet, including who would be interned ‘in the event of War with Japan’. (National Archives of Australia) Nikkei Australian stories are...
Two Nikkei Australia members will speak at a special lecture in Tokyo organised by the Australian Studies Association of Japan. The event will be in person in Tokyo and online, and explore how Japanese female immigrants in Northern Australia navigated uncertain times...
Nikkei Australia member Rebecca Hausler will join other Past Wrongs Future Choices project research award winners Yuukichi Niwayama (Japan), Greg Robinson (Canada) in an online presentation – Edges of Internment. This presentation will shed new light on the internment...
Nikkei Australia in partnership with Cowra Council has just completed the Cowra Voices Audio Archive. The Archive includes the interviews conducted in the making of Cowra Voices, a geolocative storytelling app about the unique history of Cowra’s postwar civic...
Congratulations to young filmmaker and Nikkei Australia member Gabriel Murphy who received the Australian Directors’ Guild Award 2023 for Best Direction in a Student Film for Enemy Alien, a short film based on the story of Joe Murakami. Joseph Clement Kisaburo...
Nikkei Australia’s Elysha Rei’s new exhibition Yohaku no bi28 November 2024
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