Nikkei Australia founding member Dr Yuriko Nagata has recently donated to the National Film and Sound Archive the original treatment for the unrealised film After Tatura by the late filmmaker Solrun Hoaas. The documentary was about the lives of Japanese civilians...
Photo: A defence minute paper stamped with ‘MOST SECRET’ that details the decision made by the Australian Cabinet, including who would be interned ‘in the event of War with Japan’. (National Archives of Australia) Nikkei Australian stories are...
Japan Past & Present—JPP for short—’is a global information hub and repository that promotes research and teaching in the Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders.’ JPP is an online platform for ‘a collective...
The Loveday Internment Camp website was curated by Rosemary Gower and contains information about the The Loveday Internment Camp, the largest internment camp in Australia during World War II. Situated in near Barmera in South Australia, Loveday was established in...
Listen to a podcast episode about the first recorded Japanese person to have settled in Australia, Rikinosuke Sakuragawa, featuring Nikkei Australia members. Please note that our group Nikkei Australia has been mistakenly referred to as ‘Nikkei’ in this...
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...
From successful businessman to ‘enemy alien’: my grandfather Hirokichi Nakamura29 August 2024
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