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Bridging Australia and Japan: the writings of David Sissons, historian and political scientist ANU Press, 2016. Edited by Arthur Stockwin and Keiko Tamura https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/asian-studies-series/bridging-australia-and-japan-volume-1 Free Download Represents v

Nikkei Australia’s new project to connect names of people buried at Cowra Japanese War Cemetery with records held at the National Archives of Australia and Australian War Memorial in a bilingual online data base is now underway. http://www.au.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/cjwc_databas

Jetty to Jetty Jetty to Jetty Heritage Trail was awarded the 2016 Australian Institute of Landscape Architect (AILA) National and State (WA) Awards for Tourism. Featuring Yawuru and other stories from Broome, Jetty to Jetty includes pearling, war, internment and heritage, and many mor

50 years of Japanese at UQ 25 – 27 Nov, 2016 Japan in Australia Conference University of Queensland  Features Nikkei Australia members, including presentations by Dr Keiko Tamura: Site to remember, Site to forget: war memories and the Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Timothy Kazuo St

「海境を越える人びと」 Umizakai wo Koeru Hitobito Edited by Yoshinori Murai, Aiko Utsumi and Sayoko Iizasa Published by Commons Includes contributions by: Dr Yuriko Nagata on Pearl divers who became POWs in Australia Dr Keiko Tamura on Buttons to jewellery: The beginnings of Australian cultured

Australian Studies Association of Japan Conference 11-12 June, 2016 Wakayama University Includes conference paper by Dr Yuriko Nagata Okinawan Contract Pearl Shell Labourers in the Torre Strait: 1958-1961  http://www.australianstudies.jp/index_e.html

Exhibition: Murakami Yasukichi Life Story Presented by the Institute of Kishu Economic and Cultural History Curated by Professor Mutsumi Tsuda 10 June – 29 July, 2016 Includes public seminar by Dr Yuriko Nagata on 13 June Japanese communities around Australia: a history「村上安吉が生きた

News reader Kumi Taguchi talks about her Japanese father and growing up with Japanese influences in rural Australia on Conversations with Richard Fidler.  http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2016/05/17/4463634.htm Kumi is a presenter on ABC News 24. From ABC Radio site: “As a ta

Report on Mobilities, 5th Asian Australian Studies Research Network Conference, 2015 April 7, 2016 ~ masakofukui I work mostly in mainstream Australian media where ‘the Asian century’ seems like a platitude in the blah-blah-blah realm of public discourse and for years, I’d been feelin

WEARING KARIYUSHI AS AN OKINAWAN AUSTRALIAN By: Timothy Kazuo Steains, for the Peril magazine Arts,Culture | Published: March 21, 2016 I enter a room full of young Okinawans, who have come to Australia to teach Eisā, a traditional form of music and dance. Too proud to actually learn m