News
Finding Community with JAFCO
JAFCO or「つな豪未来」is a new community group for young adults with childhood connections to Japan.
PWFC Project website is now live
The Past Wrongs Future Choices project website is now live.
Nikkei Australia member Christine Piper’s novel published in Japanese
Nikkei Australia member Christine Piper’s award winning novel After Darkness has been published in Japanese.
Nikkei Stories
Study finds positive outlook for Nikkei worldwide
By Christine Piper: The Nippon Foundation announced the results of its Global Nikkei Young Adult Identity Project.
Pearl Hamaguchi’s Oral History from Broome
By Pearl Hamaguchi: My name is Pearl Hamaguchi. I was born in Broome in 1940. I live in Broome. I’ve lived nowhere else.
The first recorded Japanese in Australia: Steve Dawson’s family story
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.
After Tatura – Unrealised film by Solrun Hoas
Download a report about Solrun Hoas’ After Tatura.
Akane Kanai’s Nikkei family
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 John from Newcastle who rode a motorcycle.
Jim McFarlane’s Nikkei Australian family history
By Jim McFarlane: My sister Coral and I come from a Japanese mother and an Australian father who met in Hiroshima during our father’s service in the occupation forces in 1952.