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 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...
By Yuki Kawakami My parents met in Osaka when Mum was in her final year of school and Dad was a university student. Mum was an occasional backup singer on TV and graduated with a degree in nihongo (Japanese), while Dad worked as a sales representative for a kimono...
Audio documentary featuring Nikkei Australia members shortlisted for international award24 March 2025
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