Nikkei Australia members feature in new publication about Japanese migrations
Congratulations to Nikkei Australia members who are contributors to a new scholarly publication about Japanese migrations to Australia. The book includes a chapter about our group Nikkei Australia, written by one of our founding members Mayu Kanamori. Japanese...
An article about mixed race, masculinity and the online world by Dr Tim Steains
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...
A book of essays about the music of migrant minorities in Japan
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...
Biography of Monte Punshon by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
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...
Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms published in Japanese
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...
Launch of the 30th Anniversary edition of Dr Yuriko Nagata’s Unwanted Aliens: Japanese Internment in Australia14 October 2026- A review of Masako Fukui’s novella When Blossoms Fall11 September 2026
- Video of When You Call My Name exhibition and ceremonial performance in Perth11 September 2026
- When You Call My Name exhibition opens in Broome17 August 2026
- Nikkei Australia member Mayu Kanamori’s exhibition opens in Perth12 August 2026
Major support by The Japan Foundation Sydney
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