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 Japanese language translation of Nikkei Australia founding member Dr Yuriko Nagata’s Unwanted Aliens – オーストラリア日系人強制収容の記録 has been reviewed by Ryusuke Kawai for Discover Nikkei. The original English language publication Unwanted Aliens: Japanese Internment in...
This article by SBS journalist Junko Hirabayashi – ‘Bridging cultures: Why Australia-Japan history looms large for some Voice voters’ – features a diversity of opinions and stories of Nikkei peoples discussing the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice...
By Dr Rebecca Hausler On 16 October 2022, the field of Japanese studies lost one of its most passionate and loved scholars, Professor Carol Hayes, formerly of the Australian National University (ANU). It is especially tragic that the great mind of Carol Hayes, the...
By Masashi Hojo (After Darkness is Nikkei Australia member Christine Piper’s award winning debut novel. The Japanese translation by Masashi Hojo was released in August 2023) In December 2010, I was visited by Christine Piper, a doctoral student of creative arts...
From successful businessman to ‘enemy alien’: my grandfather Hirokichi Nakamura29 August 2024
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