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...
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...
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...
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...
Ewar Dicinoski/Togawa Iwakichi (Photo supplied by author) By Steve Dawson In May 2022, the Japanese Consulate-General in Brisbane sponsored a cultural event Consulate Conversations and invited Nikkei Australia members Dr Yuriko Nagata and me to speak. I took this...
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...
Visiting sites of internment – special panel discussion 12/13 July 20254 July 2025
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