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Across Oceans

May 08, 2022
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By Yuki Kawakami My parents met in Osaka when Mum was in her final year of school and Dad was a university student. Mum was an occasional backup singer on TV and graduated with a degree in nihongo (Japanese), while Dad worked as a sales representative for a kimono dress and fabric com
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Happy New Year – Nikkei Osechi Ryori in Brisbane / Meanjin by Elysha Rei

January 04, 2022
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明けておめでとございます! Happy New Year! After my eldest son Kairo just finished his year of the Ox, and I am entering the year of the Tiger for 2022, the both of us decided to make our best version of Osechi Ryori. We researched the various dishes online, and sourced as many authentic ingredien
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What is Filial Piety for a Mixed Family?

October 21, 2021
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(Tim’s mum, Satsuki Steains with chinsuko made by Felicia La France) My mum said she wanted chinsuko for Mother’s Day. It’s a type of shortbread cookie from Okinawa, Japan, where she was born and grew up. Mother’s day is very close to my Anglo-Australian father’s birthday, so most yea
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Hasegawa Monogatari: 5G Over 124 Years by Andrew Hasegawa

September 29, 2021
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SETSUTARO HASEGAWA When Setsutaro died on October 4th, 1952, the Hasegawa family’s relationship with Japan became paper-thin. At the height of the northern hemisphere summer, in August, when Japanese pay homage to their ancestors, no one gathers at his grave. Japanese tradition was lo
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Finding Myself in Japan

September 03, 2021
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My parents first met in Japan in the 1960s. Unusual for the time, my father studied Japanese and economics at the Australian National University in Canberra and spent a few months on exchange in Tokyo. For a while he was hosted by my mother’s family, as one of her sisters was studying
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Interview with Reina Takeuchi

May 06, 2021
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Nikkei Australia’s Timothy Kazuo Steains interviewed Nikkei performance artist, writer and researcher Reina Takeuchi.  Reina’s practice spans across visual arts, choreography, curatorial projects, written publications and creative facilitation, including her work with Asia
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Interview with Iori Forsyth

May 06, 2021
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Nikkei Australia member Timothy Kazuo Steains was lucky enough to interview Nikkei Youtube celebrity Iori Forsyth from the channel 大家族フォーサイス家 ! They talked about Iori’s channel and family, having mixed Japanese Australian heritage, and Iori’s plans for moving to Australia.
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Interned and Enlisted: Omaye Family History

April 27, 2021
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By Shey Dimon My grandfather Tom (Tomo) was a larrikin; the self confessed black sheep of the family. He liked to ‘stir the pot’ and his deep belly laugh would erupt whenever he sensed some kind of family controversy. Just for fun, he left his fiancee, my Nan, waiting FOR A LONG TIME
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[Lecture] Keiko Tamura “Life Story of Cross-Border Women: Japanese War Brides in Australia” & Interview with Alumni

January 20, 2021
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【講演会】田村恵子さん「国境を越えた女たちのライフストーリー:オーストラリアの日本人戦争花嫁」&卒業生インタビュー [Lecture] Keiko Tamura “Life Story of Cross-Border Women: Japanese War Brides in Australia” & Interview with Alumni Watch Nikkei Australia’s Dr Keiko Tamura’s zoom presentation about Japanese war bri
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Recent Posts

Across Oceans
May 08, 2022
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
Mar 11, 2022
Free online event (Feb 27): What is Nikkei Food?
Feb 22, 2022
Teiju to wa Nandaro (What does it mean to settle?): Australia
Feb 16, 2022
Happy New Year - Nikkei Osechi Ryori in Brisbane / Meanjin by Elysha Rei
Jan 04, 2022
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
Oct 23, 2021
What is Filial Piety for a Mixed Family?
Oct 21, 2021
Hasegawa Monogatari: 5G Over 124 Years by Andrew Hasegawa
Sep 29, 2021
Finding Myself in Japan
Sep 03, 2021
Interview with Reina Takeuchi
May 06, 2021
Interview with Iori Forsyth
May 06, 2021
Interned and Enlisted: Omaye Family History
Apr 27, 2021
[Lecture] Keiko Tamura "Life Story of Cross-Border Women: Japanese War Brides in Australia" & Interview with Alumni
Jan 20, 2021
Loveday Project by Christine Piper
Jan 04, 2021
Cowra Voices report in Studies in Oral History: The Journal of Oral History Australia
Dec 21, 2020
父を語る(About My Father)
Dec 17, 2020

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