This year, the town of Cowra in NSW commemorates 80 years since the Cowra Breakout, when more than 1000 Japanese prisoners of war broke out of the POW camp on the outskirts of Cowra, resulting in more than 240 deaths. To coincide with this 80th anniversary, author Dr...
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...
Nikkei Australia in partnership with Cowra Council has just completed the Cowra Voices Audio Archive. The Archive includes the interviews conducted in the making of Cowra Voices, a geolocative storytelling app about the unique history of Cowra’s postwar civic...
Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Database is now online. The Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Database project was funded by the Embassy of Japan in Canberra for three years between April 2016 and March 2019 and completed by Nikkei Australia members. The database provides...
Nikkei Australia will begin the first stage of a storytelling and oral history project in February called Cowra Voices. Six design students from Tokai University’s Sapporo campus will visit Cowra between February 23rd and 25th to begin work on Cowra Voices, a project...
Nikkei Australia’s Elysha Rei’s new exhibition Yohaku no bi28 November 2024
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