A Tribute to Kuni Hashimoto 橋本邦彦 (27 March 1953 – 6 April 2025)
By Nikkei Australia members and friends Kuni Hashimoto was a groundbreaking Japanese Australian actor, who died in 2025. Nikkei Australia members and friends who knew him pay tribute to his life, work, and his friendship. By Mayu Kanamori (Founding member of Nikkei...
From successful businessman to ‘enemy alien’: my grandfather Hirokichi Nakamura
by Geoff Dornan Japanese translation using GoogleTranslate This is the story of my grandfather Hirokichi Nakamura, who in 1897, boarded a ship in his home city Kagoshima bound for Sydney. He was just 18-years-old. I’ve never known why he left Japan. Perhaps he was...
Raising mixed-race kids as a Japanese dad
by Masa Takahashi I was born in Japan and spent my early years in the countryside in Hyogo Prefecture. When I was 25, I met a girl from Melbourne who was in Japan on a working holiday visa. We shared a connection, and started dating. When her visa expired, she...
Hardship and happiness: a New Zealand war bride’s life – Hiroko Kadowaki, 1929-2021 (Spotlight on New Zealand Nikkei)
By June Baldwin My mother, Hiroko, grew up on the small island of Daikonshima in the middle of a lake in Matsue City, on the north-west coast of Japan. She was the third of four children. Her parents farmed their land. Mum often talked about their fruit orchard and...
Finding my family: Omaye/Omae Family History
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...
An article about Japanese Communities and White Australia by Tianna Killoran19 October 2026- Nikkei Australia’s Sophie Constable interviewed by Japanese American National Museum18 October 2026
- SBS Japanese Radio Coverage of When You Call My Name Project17 October 2026
- The Tale of Two Tomokos17 October 2026
- Launch of the 30th Anniversary edition of Dr Yuriko Nagata’s Unwanted Aliens: Japanese Internment in Australia14 October 2026
Major support by The Japan Foundation Sydney
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