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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

Photographs of Yasukichi Murakami will be exhibited at the foyer of Lennox Theatre at Riverside Theatres 16 – 19 March during the performance season of Yasukichi Murakami – Through a Distant Lens. This exhibition is a free event, made possible by support of Japan Foundatio

Dr Keiko Tamura writes about the first exhumation of a Japanese POW’s remains at the Japanese War Cemetery in Cowra for the ANU Reporter. http://reporter.anu.edu.au/japan-slowly-recognises-its-war-past ANU academic and Nikkei Australia’s founding member Keiko Tamura at the

‘Yasukichi Murakami – Through a Distant Lens’ by Mayu Kanamori is back in Sydney at the  Riverside Theatres. https://riversideparramatta.com.au/show/through-a-distant-lens/

Audio book version of Christine Piper’s award winning novel ‘After Darkness’ is now available for download. http://www.audible.com.au/pd/Fiction/After-Darkness-Audiobook/B01590CWL0 Winner, 2014 The Australian / Vogel’s Literary Award Short listed, 2015 Miles Fr

Nikkei Australia members speaking at the Asian Australian Research Network (AASRN) conference ‘mobilities’ (AAI 5). 26-27 November 2015 at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne. *Yuriko Nagata – “Developing a Nikkei Australian identity” *Andrew Hasegawa – “Setsutaro Hasegawa: Japane

Masako Fukui’s From the Pearlers to the Bankers, the almost forgotten history of the Japanese people in Australia has won the GOLD Award in the New York Festivals World’s Best Radio Program Awards 2015 in the Information/Documentary-History category. More info:  http://www

From the Pearlers to the Bankers: The History of Japanese Australians by Masako Fukui has been chosen as finalist for 2015  New York Festivals World’s Best Radio Program. Masako Fukui’s website:  http://masakofukui.com More info on Masako’s Program: http://www.nikkei