Congratulations to Sophie Constable, honoured with three awards this year for her artwork exploring the World War II experiences of Nikkei peoples. Sophie received the Craft + Design Canberra ‘Emerging Contemporaries Exhibition Award’...
Congratulations to Nikkei Australia founding member Dr Yuriko Nagata, who was awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation in 2024 for her contributions to the Japan Australia relationship. She was one of 186 individuals and 59 groups around the world to be...
Nikkei Australia member Sophie Constable is exhibiting artworks that bring attention to Japanese diaspora stories at the Global Mobility Humanities Conference to be held between 24-26 October 2024 at Konkuk University, Seoul. Sophie has been working on a digitally...
by Geoff Dornan Japanese translation using GoogleTranslate 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...
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,...
Nikkei Australia member Christine Piper awarded fellowship at State Library of NSW16 December 2025
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