by Geoff Dornan This is the story of my grandfather Hirokichi Nakamura, who in 1897, boarded a ship in his home city Kagoshima bound for Sydney. He was just 18-years-old. I’ve never known why he left Japan. Perhaps he was seeking fame and fortune in Australia, or...
By Tianna Killoran In 2017, when I was looking to do a PhD in History, I serendipitously discovered that the first official Japanese Consulate in Australia was located in Townsville. I thought, ‘Townsville? Really? Of all places?’ I was only a young researcher then,...
On 4 May 2024, we held an in-person meeting in Sydney to discuss our partnership in PastWrongs Future Choices (PWFC), a seven year (2022-29) project with collaborators such asuniversities, museums, and Nikkei community organisations in Canada, US, Brazil, Japan, and...
A biography of Ethel May Punshon, known as Monte Punshon – A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia 1882-1989 – by Tessa Morris-Suzuki has been published by Melbourne University Press. Born in 1882 and living until she was 106, Monte was a known as a trailblazer...
Nikkei Australia members were saddened to hear the news that Don Kibbler AM had passed away in Cowra, NSW on 29 April 2024. Don is well known in Cowra and to many Japanese people because of his life-long work fostering the friendship between Japan and Australia. He...
A book of essays about the music of migrant minorities in Japan30 September 2024
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