Yushiro Mizukoshi, Vice President of Japan Club of Sydney and Nikkei Australia member, speaks with SBS reporter Hisaaki Nagao about the making and recent digitisation of Japanese in Australia – Japanese footprints over a century. https://www.sbs.com.au/language/japanese/audio/a-japane

By Christine Piper On the 31st 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. The project

Courtesy, Andrew Hasegawa Interview with Ida Hasegawa (née Jorgensen) in the mid 1980s. Ida Hasegawa was married to Leo Hasegawa. The interview is conducted by an unknown researcher from Deakin University.  Ida is Nikkei Australia member, Andrew Hasegawa’s grandmother. Deakin Un

In July 2012 members of Nikkei Australia, Keiko Tamura, Yuriko Nagata, Lorna Kaino and Mayu Kanamori (then informally called the Japan-Australia Research Group) viewed 3 dvds containing late film director Solrun Hoaas’ documentary moving image AFTER TATURA consisting of interviews wit

Edited by: Keiko Tamura, Arthur Stockwin ANU Press 2020 This book is volume two of the writings of David Sissons, who first established his academic career as a political scientist specialising in Japanese politics, and later shifted his focus to the history of Australia–Japan relatio

by Sachiko Sone and Leng Leng Thang, 2020 Journal of Japanese Studies. Routledge, Vol. 40, Number 1, p. 41-62   International Retirement Migration (IRM) – which began in Europe and North America in the 1960s – was a concept that first entered Japan in the 1980s, but has become increas

A two part radio documentary that tells the story of Japanese internees and prisoners of war in Hay, a small town near Griffith in NSW will be broadcast on ABC RN’s History Listen to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in the Pacific. The POW camps in Cowra or the c

Dr Timothy Kazuo Steains on Nikkei Australian Identity as part of a Tadaima! JAMPilgrimages Week 9 Reconciliation & Identity. Nikkei Australian Identity from JA Memorial Pilgrimages on Vimeo.

Mayu Kanamori and Kunji Mark Ikeda in conversation is part of Tadaima! JAMPilgrimages Nikkei Block Party Week 7 With poets Carolyn Nakagawa and Laura Fukumoto

「オーストラリアの日本人」は、日豪友好記念事業（1996-1998年）の一環として、各州の日本クラブの連合組織「全豪日本クラブ」により、編集・発行された日豪友好の記念誌です。本誌には、明治時代から続くオーストラリアにおける日本人移住者の足跡が、移住者本人の体験談を中心に、多くの日本人の方々の貴重な写真や資料と共に編纂されています。一世紀をこえる日本人の歴史が、それも一般庶民の通史ともいうべき具体的なエピソードが網羅された記録集であり、また貴重な資料でもあります。 Japanese in Australia – Japanese footprints o