Listen to this interview with Nikkei Australia founding member Dr Keiko Tamura on SBS Japanese, where she talks about how she became interested in the lives of Japanese war brides, and was inspired to research this history for her doctorate. Dr Tamura was awarded a...
Nikkei Australia’s Dr Tim Steains has published an article in Australian Feminist Studies about Asian masculinities, mixed race, and the online world. Softboys and Mixed Race Asian Masculinity Online: The TikToks of JiyayjtDr Timothy Kazuo Steains Australian...
Listen to My Grandmother is a Japanese War Bride, an audio story first broadcast on ABC Radio National in October 2024, featuring the voices of Nikkei Australia members Alli Parker, Chairperson Elysha Rei, Anna Wilkinson, and Kaori Maeda-Judge. The story is produced...
Nikkei Australia member Dr Hugh de Ferranti has co-edited a collection of essays about the music of minorities living in Japan. Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Coexistence, Japan Edited by Hugh de Ferranti, Masaya Shishikura and Michiyo Yoneno-ReyesWith...
A biography of Ethel May Punshon, known as Monte Punshon – A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia 1882-1989 – by Tessa Morris-Suzuki has been published by Melbourne University Press. Born in 1882 and living until she was 106, Monte was a known as a trailblazer...
This year, the town of Cowra in NSW commemorates 80 years since the Cowra Breakout, when more than 1000 Japanese prisoners of war broke out of the POW camp on the outskirts of Cowra, resulting in more than 240 deaths. To coincide with this 80th anniversary, author Dr...
Audio documentary featuring Nikkei Australia members shortlisted for international award24 March 2025
Recent Comments