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...
Listen to My Grandmother is a Japanese War Bride, an audio story first broadcast on ABC Radio National in October 2024, featuring the voices of Nikkei Australia members Alli Parker, Chairperson Elysha Rei, Anna Wilkinson, and Kaori Maeda-Judge. The story is produced...
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 Masa Takahashi I was born in Japan and spent my early years in the countryside in Hyogo Prefecture. When I was 25, I met a girl from Melbourne who was in Japan on a working holiday visa. We shared a connection, and started dating. When her visa expired, she...
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’s Elysha Rei’s new exhibition Yohaku no bi28 November 2024
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