News
Nikkei Australian stories featured in NAA’s student resources
Nikkei Australian stories are featured in a new online resource about Japanese wartime internment at the National Archives of Australia (NAA).
Two Nikkei Australia Members to present lecture about early Japanese female migrants to Australia
Dr Tianna Killoran and Professor Yuichi Murakami will present talks about early Japanese migration to Northern Australia in a special event by Australian Studies Association of Japan.
Nikkei Australia’s Rebecca Hausler to present talk with PWFC Research Award Winners
Nikkei Australia member Rebecca Hausler will present a talk with other researchers from PWFC project.
Nikkei Stories
Finding my family: Omaye/Omae Family History
By Shey Dimon: The email header read, ‘I’ve found your family’.
I think I stopped breathing at that moment.
Hajime Fujimoto and the Fujimoto Family
By Amanda O’Connor: My grandfather is Hajime Fujimoto, ‘Hajima’ on some documents. He was born in Kumamoto Prefecture in the late 1800s.
The untold story of Ewar Dicinoski (Togawa Iwakichi)
By Steve Dawson: I took this opportunity to share the untold story of my great-grandfather, Ewar Dicinoski (Togawa Iwakichi), and the origins of the unique Dicinoski clan whose many descendants permeate Queensland and other parts of Australia.
Nikkei Australia’s Dr Yuriko Nagata to present lecture about internment in Tokyo, Japan, 10 December 2022
Dr Yuriko Nagata will talk at a special event to coincide with an exhibiton about ‘War Art’ in Nagoya, Japan.
Revisiting the Past: A Nikkei road trip
By Andrew Hasegawa: As a fourth-generation Japanese Australian, researching my family history and preserving the stories of other Nikkei Australians is important to me.
Geta, Giri and Going to Japan (Spotlight on New Zealand Nikkei)
By Joanna Boese: My mother’s given name was actually Atsuko, but she adopted the name Naomi as it is both a Japanese and Western name. Everyone called my father ‘Snow’ because his hair. Even in Japan he was known as ‘Yuki’ (snow).