• Home
  • About Nikkei Australia
  • Support Nikkei Australia
Contact form | Privacy Policy

About Nikkei Australia

Nikkei Australia promotes research, study, arts
& cultural practices and community information
exchange about the Nikkei diaspora in Australia.

facebook
twitter
youtube
  • Home
  • News
  • Nikkei Stories
  • PROJECTS
    • Cowra Voices App
    • The Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Online Database
    • Yasukichi Murakami Through a Distant Lens
    • Internment Symposium March 2014
    • Civilian Internment Arts Program 2014
    • Cowra Canowindra Community Arts Project 2013
  • LINKS
  • About Nikkei Australia
    • Nikkei Australia Members
    • Call for New Members
    • Support Nikkei Australia
  • Resources

  1. Home
  2. Resources
  3. Audio Visual
  4. Radio
  5. Radio documentary tells the story of Japanese POWs and internees in Hay, a small town in NSW

Radio documentary tells the story of Japanese POWs and internees in Hay, a small town in NSW

August 17, 2020
by Nikkei Australia
0 Comment

Courtesy of Hay Historical Society

A two part radio documentary that tells the story of Japanese internees and prisoners of war in Hay, a small town near Griffith in NSW will be broadcast on ABC RN’s History Listen to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in the Pacific.

The POW camps in Cowra or the civilian internment camps in Tatura and Loveday are reasonably well known, but few are aware of the camps in Hay. Producer Ann Arnold hails from this region, and was surprised to discover an almost forgotten history of the Japanese behind enemy lines during the final days of WWII.

This two part series features Nikkei Australia founding members Dr Keiko Tamura and Dr Yuriko Nagata, and is available for download/streaming from the ABC RN History Listen website or on most major podcast apps.

Hay’s war: When the Japanese came to inland Australia

Part One: The mysterious war-time drowning of an 18-year-old woman in the Murrumbidgee River leads Ann Arnold on a trail of dramas and suspense, from the Torres Strait to the outback. Japanese and Australian accounts reveal a little known chapter of WW2, when the NSW town of Hay feared attack from the Japanese and nationwide, Japanese/Australian relations were greatly strained.
Part 1 of a 2 part series marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War, on August 15th.

Guests:
David Houston, amateur historian, Hay
The late Max Lugsdin, former Mayor of Hay
Dr Yuriko Nagata, honorary researcher with the University of QLD
Dr Keiko Tamura, researcher at the ANU
Clifflene ‘Cliffie’ Cox, former Hay resident
Geraldine Fuji Kirk, former Thursday Island resident

Jotani Isamu’s memoir was translated by Tomoko Horikawa, and read by Yuske Aso.

Thanks also to Masako Fukui, Myjanne Jensen, Bruce Wall, Jennie McDonald, Susie Dye, Lou Gardam, Carol Bunyan, Lee Shaberman, Jackie Munro and Tim Burns.

Duration: 28min 35sec

Broadcast: Tue 11 Aug 2020, 11:05am

Part Two: A cavalcade of Japanese Prisoners of War, in makeshift ‘cages’ on the back of utes and small trucks, makes its way across dusty western NSW. The men had been part of WWll’s biggest and most violent escape attempt, at Cowra. Tension in the town of Hay ramps up, peaking on one long night of drama when it appears these same POWs are making another escape attempt. But by the end of the war, tentative links, across enemy lines, are being forged.

Guests:
David Houston, amateur historian, Hay
The late Max Lugsdin, former Mayor of Hay
Dr Yuriko Nagata, honorary researcher with the University of QLD
Dr Keiko Tamura, researcher at the ANU
Dr Peter Mauch, Japanese military history specialist, Western Sydney University
Alice Beckwith, Hay resident

Clifflene ‘Cliffie’ Cox, former Hay resident
Rhonda Crighton, Hay resident

Jotani Isamu’s memoir translated by Tomoko Horikawa was read by Yuske Aso.

Duration: 28min 35sec

Broadcast: Tue 18 Aug 2020, 11:05am

 

Social Share

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

*
*

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Recent Posts

[Lecture] Keiko Tamura "Life Story of Cross-Border Women: Japanese War Brides in Australia" & Interview with Alumni
Jan 20, 2021
Loveday Project by Christine Piper
Jan 04, 2021
Cowra Voices report in Studies in Oral History: The Journal of Oral History Australia
Dec 21, 2020
父を語る(About My Father)
Dec 17, 2020
Cowra Voices recognised by 3 History Awards
Nov 26, 2020
My Life Story by Iseko Williams
Oct 16, 2020
Reading Embraced by Australia Hiroshima Modules 1 and 2  by: Carol Hayes, Yuki Itani-Adams
Oct 15, 2020
Yushiro Mizukoshi speaks with SBS - Japanese in Australia – Japanese footprints over a century goes online
Oct 09, 2020
Study finds positive outlook for Nikkei worldwide
Sep 18, 2020
Pearl Hamaguchi's Oral History from Broome
Sep 11, 2020
Interview with Ida Hasegawa on Hasegawa Family History
Aug 31, 2020
The first recorded Japanese in Australia: Steve Dawson's family story
Aug 29, 2020
Solrun Hoaas / After Tatura - Unrealised film footage at NFSA
Aug 29, 2020
Akane Kanai’s Nikkei family
Aug 28, 2020
Bridging Australia and Japan: Volume 2 The writings of David Sissons, historian and political scientist
Aug 24, 2020
Staying till the End? Japanese Later-Life Migrants and Belonging in Western Australia
Aug 19, 2020
Radio documentary tells the story of Japanese POWs and internees in Hay, a small town in NSW
Aug 17, 2020
Nikkei Australian Identity
Aug 12, 2020
Nikkei Block Party Week 7 - as part of JAMPilgrimages Tadaima!
Aug 10, 2020
Japanese in Australia - Japanese footprints over a century now digitised
Aug 07, 2020

Follow Blog via Email


 

Thank you for your support

Please support Nikkei Australia to promote research, study, arts & cultural practices and community exchange about Nikkei Diaspora in Australia.
  • Home
  • About Nikkei Australia
  • Support Nikkei Australia

Major support by The Japan Foundation Sydney

The Japan Foundation, Sydney



Pandora Archive pandora_logo

Tweets by @NikkeiAustralia
Nikkei Australia (c) 2014-2020 - All rights reserved