Member Andrew Hasegawa will join other Nikkei peoples from US, Brazil, Argentina, and Peru at a special panel discussion about Nikkei histories, culture, and family stories at the Discover Nikkei Fest in February 2025 at JAMN, Japanese American National Museum in Los...
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...
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