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Asian Australian Identities Conference (AAI7) Members of Nikkei Australia – Timothy Kazuo Steains, Mayu Kanamori, and Christine Piper – presented Nikkei Australia’s initiatives and relationships to identity politics at the AAI7 conference in Melbourne. This is a biennial conference or

The Sydney launch of Cowra Voices and the Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Online Database was held on September 4, 2019 at the Japan Foundation, Sydney, and was hosted by the Australia-Japan Society NSW and Japan Foundation Sydney.    

Cowra Voices, an audio-visual storytelling app about Cowra’s unique history of civic peace and reconciliation, was launched on 3 August 2019 at the Cowra Civic Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of Cowra Breakout series of events. This app, created by members of Nikkei Austr

60th Convention of Nikkei & Japanese Abroad, the 20th Pan American Nikkei Convention and Events for the International Day of Nikkei  (Yokohama) by Katsuyuki Tanaka, President, Association of Nikkei & Japanese Abroad / Kaigai Nikkeijin Kyokai Dear friends, I hope everything is

Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Database is now online. The Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Database project was funded by the Embassy of Japan in Canberra for three years between April 2016 and March 2019 and completed by Nikkei Australia members. The database provides individual information

Nikkei Australia has received ongoing funding from the Australia-Japan Foundation (Department of Foreign Affairs) as well as new funding from Cowra Council and the Cowra Breakout Association to complete the Cowra Voices storytelling app. The project was initially funded in the 2017-20

The Experiences of Nikkei-Australian Soldiers During World War II by Shannon Whiley Published July 02, 2018 © The Japan Foundation, Sydney and Shannon Whiley, 2018 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Downloa

Nikkei Australia will begin the first stage of a storytelling and oral history project in February called Cowra Voices. Six design students from Tokai University’s Sapporo campus will visit Cowra between February 23rd and 25th to begin work on Cowra Voices, a project linking people, s

By Masako Fukui Nikkei Australia has enjoyed a warm and supportive association with the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN), with some Nikkei Australia members being active participants in many AASRN conferences. And at the sixth AASRN biennial Asian Australian Identitie

Mayu Kanamori’s text from You’ve Mistaken Me For a Butterfly published in Journal of Japan Studies as a literary feature with Abstract and Afterword by Vera Mackie.   ABSTRACT: The multimedia work You’ve Mistaken Me for a Butterfly was performed by Mayu Kanamori, acco