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Cowra Voices report in Studies in Oral History: The Journal of Oral History Australia
December 21, 2020
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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
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Cowra Voices recognised by 3 History Awards
November 26, 2020
Cowra Voices recognised by 3 History Awards Cowra Voices has been recognised in three history awards this year. Winner of the Oral History NSW Community History Award 2020. Honorable Mention in the History Council NSW Awards 2020 Highly Commended in the National Trust Heritage Awards
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My Life Story by Iseko Williams
October 16, 2020
My Life Story by Iseko Williams Background to this story Iseko Jenny Williams kept an occasional memoir of her life in Japan and Australia. Iseko’s interviewer and biographer, Hiromi Ogata, who interviewed her from August to September 2018, published the
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Reading Embraced by Australia Hiroshima Modules 1 and 2 by: Carol Hayes, Yuki Itani-Adams
October 15, 2020
Reading Embraced by Australia Hiroshima Modules 1 and 2 by: Carol Hayes, Yuki Itani-Adams Hiroshima Modules 1 and 2 provide a first-hand account of surviving Hiroshima’s atomic bomb. This eText is the first volume of an advanced Japanese language comprehension series aimed firs
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Yushiro Mizukoshi speaks with SBS – Japanese in Australia – Japanese footprints over a century goes online
October 09, 2020
Yushiro Mizukoshi, Vice President of Japan Club of Sydney and Nikkei Australia member, speaks with SBS reporter Hisaaki Nagao about the making and recent digitisation of Japanese in Australia – Japanese footprints over a century. https://www.sbs.com.au/language/japanese/audio/a-japane
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Study finds positive outlook for Nikkei worldwide
September 18, 2020
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
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Pearl Hamaguchi’s Oral History from Broome
September 11, 2020
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
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Interview with Ida Hasegawa on Hasegawa Family History
August 31, 2020
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
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The first recorded Japanese in Australia: Steve Dawson’s family story
August 29, 2020
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
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Solrun Hoaas / After Tatura – Unrealised film footage at NFSA
August 29, 2020
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
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