By Jacqueline Yoshioka-Braid I descend from a long line of samurai families. I am the fifth of six children born to my parents, Taeko Yoshioka and Noel Braid. My parents met during the Allied Occupation of Japan. Dad was on R and R in Japan during his tour of duty in...
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...
By Elysha Rei 明けておめでとございます！Happy New Year! After my eldest son Kairo just finished his year of the Ox, and I am entering the year of the Tiger for 2022, the both of us decided to make our best version of Osechi Ryori. We researched the various dishes online, and...
By Timothy Steains 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 years we celebrate the two occasions...
By Andrew Hasegawa When Setsutaro Hasegawa died on 4 October 1952, the Hasegawa family’s relationship with Japan became paper thin. At the height of the northern hemisphere summer in August, Japanese pay homage to their ancestors, but no one gathers at his grave....
By Christine Piper My parents first met in Japan in the 1960s. Unusual for the time, my father studied Japanese and economics at the Australian National University in Canberra and spent a few months on exchange in Tokyo. For a while he was hosted by my mother’s...
Three bilingual publications relating to the life of Jiro Muramats, a Japanese businessman in prewar Australia25 April 2024
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