By Christine Piper On 31 August 2020, The Nippon Foundation announced the results of its Global Nikkei Young Adult Identity Project. Jointly facilitated by the Japanese American National Museum, it is the first large-scale study to look at what it means to be Nikkei....
By Pearl Hamaguchi My name is Pearl Hamaguchi. I was born in Broome in 1940. I live in Broome. I’ve lived nowhere else. My grandmother on my father’s side, Yae Yamamoto, was Japanese. Yae was from Ichoda-mura (now part of Amakusa city), a village on Shimoshima Island,...
By Steve Dawson It is a privilege to be able to write about my family’s ancestral Japanese roots, especially given the significance of Sakuragawa Rikinosuke, who is recorded as the first Japanese to settle in Australia. Technically, this pioneer was my great-...
In July 2012, the four founding members of Nikkei Australia, Keiko Tamura, Yuriko Nagata, Lorna Kaino, and Mayu Kanamori viewed archival footage of late film director Solrun Hoaas’ unfinished film After Tatura. The footage consists of interviews with former World War...
By Akane Kanai My mother Yumiko, and my father Masakazu, met in Sydney in the early 1980s. My dad had dreams of trying something different, separate from his large family in Nagoya. My mother had previously moved to Australia from Tokyo, with her first husband, a...
Coral, Jack, and Setsuko in Caulfield, Melbourne, 1954 All individuals featured in this article have been approached for permission to be named. By Jim McFarlane My name is Jim McFarlane. My sister Coral and I come from a Japanese mother and an Australian...
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