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...
by Shannon Whiley On 22 March 2024, the Consulate General of Japan in Brisbane hosted a reception acknowledging and celebrating the long history of Japanese migration to Australia. The reception focused on the early waves of immigration, beginning in 1873 with the...
Nikkei Australia founding member Dr Yuriko Nagata has recently donated to the National Film and Sound Archive the original treatment for the unrealised film After Tatura by the late filmmaker Solrun Hoaas. The documentary was about the lives of Japanese civilians...
Nikkei Australia member Christine Piper awarded fellowship at State Library of NSW16 December 2025
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