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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

My name is Pearl Hamaguchi. I was born in Broome in 1940. I live in Broome. I’ve lived nowhere else. My grandmother on my father’s side, Yae Yamamoto, was Japanese. Yae was from Ichoda-mura (now part of Amakusa city), a village on Shimoshima Island, the largest of the Amakusa Islands

Courtesy, Andrew Hasegawa Interview with Ida Hasegawa (née Jorgensen) in the mid 1980s. Ida Hasegawa was married to Leo Hasegawa. The interview is conducted by an unknown researcher from Deakin University.  Ida is Nikkei Australia member, Andrew Hasegawa’s grandmother. Deakin Un

By Steve Dawson   It is a privilege to be able to write about my family’s ancestral Japanese roots which trace back to Sakuragawa Rikinosuke, the first recorded Japanese immigrant to take up residence in Australia. Technically, this pioneer was my great-great grandfather, but our

In July 2012 members of Nikkei Australia, Keiko Tamura, Yuriko Nagata, Lorna Kaino and Mayu Kanamori (then informally called the Japan-Australia Research Group) viewed 3 dvds containing late film director Solrun Hoaas’ documentary moving image AFTER TATURA consisting of interviews wit

by Akane Kanai My mother, Yumiko, and my father, Masakazu, met in Sydney in the early 1980s. My dad had dreams of trying something different, separate from his large family in Nagoya; my mother had previously moved to Australia from Tokyo, with her first husband, a clever man named Jo

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

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 c

Dr Timothy Kazuo Steains on Nikkei Australian Identity as part of a Tadaima! JAMPilgrimages Week 9 Reconciliation & Identity. Nikkei Australian Identity from JA Memorial Pilgrimages on Vimeo.

Mayu Kanamori and Kunji Mark Ikeda in conversation is part of Tadaima! JAMPilgrimages Nikkei Block Party Week 7 With poets Carolyn Nakagawa and Laura Fukumoto