Nikkei Australia founding member Dr Yuriko Nagata’s book Unwanted Aliens: Japanese Internment in Australia will be re-re-released as an e-book, 30 years after it was first published. The publication has been supported by the Past Wrongs Future Choices project, and a launch event will be held in-person at the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre in Vancouver, Canada.
Dr Nagata’s book will be launched together with two books related to the Canadian-Japanese internment experience.
50th anniversary edition of The Enemy That Never Was: A History of the Japanese Canadians Ken Adachi 1976
Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution Jordan Stanger-Ross and Eric M. Adams 2025
In person at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby BC
Free and open to the public. Click here to pre-register
Saturday 7 November 2026
Reception: 3:00 pm PDT
Launch: 4:00 -5:00 pm
Dr Nagata’s Unwanted Aliens: Japanese Internment in Australia was first published in 1996.
A very significant event for those interested in the history of how the Australian government treated civilian Japanese during the Pacific War. Congratulations Yuriko on the republishing of your book. Just in the knick of time as my hard copy is starting to disintegrate.