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Reading Embraced by Australia Hiroshima Modules 1 and 2  by: Carol Hayes, Yuki Itani-Adams

October 15, 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Pearl Hamaguchi’s Oral History from Broome

September 11, 2020
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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
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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
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By Steve Dawson It is a privilege to be able to write about my family’s ancestral Japanese roots, especially given the significance of Sakuragawa Rikinosuke, who is recorded as the first Japanese to settle in Australia.  Technically, this pioneer was my great-great grandfather, but th
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Solrun Hoaas / After Tatura – Unrealised film footage at NFSA

August 29, 2020
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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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Akane Kanai’s Nikkei family

August 28, 2020
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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
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Bridging Australia and Japan: Volume 2 The writings of David Sissons, historian and political scientist

August 24, 2020
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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
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Radio documentary tells the story of Japanese POWs and internees in Hay, a small town in NSW

August 17, 2020
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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
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Recent Posts

Geta, Giri and Going to Japan (Spotlight on New Zealand Nikkei)
Aug 03, 2022
Nikkei Australia's Dr Yuriko Nagata to give a talk about Japanese internment, Brisbane, 30th October, 2022
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Symposium on Japanese War Art and Book Launch to be held July 21, 22, 2022, Adelaide
Jul 06, 2022
Nikkei Australia member Elysha Rei awarded Artists in Residence Fellowship, Past Wrongs, Future Choices Project
Jun 20, 2022
Nikkei Australia begins major international collaborative project, Past Wrongs, Future Choices
Jun 19, 2022
Nikkei Artists in Sydney Theatre Company's Top Coat
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Wakayama Prefectural Government invites  Nikkei Australians with connections to Wakayama 
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Yasukichi Murakami – Through A Distant Lens: Japanese Language Reading
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Japanese Kiwi (Spotlight on New Zealand Nikkei)
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Across Oceans
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戦争花嫁 ミチ 国境を越えた女の物語り Japanese language version "Michi’s Memories – The Story of a Japanese War Bride"
Apr 11, 2022
Re:Fine Dates: Friday 8 - Saturday 9 April
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Free online event (Feb 27): What is Nikkei Food?
Feb 22, 2022
Teiju to wa Nandaro (What does it mean to settle?): Australia
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Happy New Year - Nikkei Osechi Ryori in Brisbane / Meanjin by Elysha Rei
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A Tribute to Noreen Jones (1932-2021)
Oct 29, 2021
日本人と他民族および「同質的」受入社会とのかかわり - 戦前の在オーストラリア日系人の音楽舞踊を中心に - ヒュー・デフェランティ
Oct 27, 2021
The Audibility of Strangers: Music and Disparate Japanese Communities in Prewar "White Australia" - Speaker Hugh de Frranti
Oct 23, 2021
Music and a forgotten minority: primary accounts of Japanese making music in prewar and wartime regional Australia by Hugh de Ferranti
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What is Filial Piety for a Mixed Family?
Oct 21, 2021

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