Japanese language version: Michi’s Memories – The Story of a Japanese War Bride 戦争花嫁 ミチ　国境を越えた女の物語り Michi’s Memories: The story of a Japanese war bride by Dr Keiko Tamura was first published in English by Pandanus Books (Research School of Asian Studies, Australian National Univ

Noreen Jones (1932-2021) I first met Noreen in 2002 when I launched her book, No. 2 Home: A Story of Japanese Pioneers In Australia. Unfortunately, I did not get to spend much time with her until a few years before I retired in 2013. After that Noreen and I became firm friends. I move

今日のオーストラリアは典型的な「成功した多文化社会」である。それに反対する極右派 政治家が少数はいるものの、多文化主義への幅広い支持が存在する。しかし、およそ半世紀 前まで、オーストラリアはアングロケルティック系白人という単一人種のヘゲモニーによ って形作られた、彼らにとっての理想的な社会であった。 19 世紀にやって来た中国人やいわゆる「ア フガン人」ばかりでなく、ヨーロッパ大陸の南部から来た人たちでさえ、受け入れ社会に同化 しなければならなかった。こうして言語や文化を「失った」多くの人たちは、同化を強制さ れたと感じるようになった1。 この報告では、当時の、自

Music and a forgotten minority: primary accounts of Japanese making music in prewar and wartime regional Australia by Hugh de Ferranti The pre-Second World War and wartime histories of Japanese in Australia have been relatively well documented in scholarship since the 1990s, but with

Cowra Voices report in Studies in Oral History: The Journal of Oral History Australia, Issue – No. 42, 2020 Intimate Stories, Challenging Histories Editors: Carla Pascoe Leahy and Skye Krichauff Report by Mayu Kanamori Free download from Oral History Australia Website: https://oralhis

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

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

「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

Nikkei Australian identity and the work of Mayu Kanamori by Timothy Kazuo Steains as part of Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connections, Edited by David Chapman and Carol Hayes. Steains’ chapter explores significant works in oeuvre of Nikkei Australian artist Mayu Kana