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...
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...
Nikkei Australia’s founding member Mayu Kanamori will hold an exhibition Compendium for Navigating Borderlands on 15 and 16 June 2024 in Matsuyama. Matsuyama University Himata Campus2F North side, H2E classroom8:30 – 16:30 (JST)15 and 16 June 2024 The...
By June Baldwin My mother, Hiroko, grew up on the small island of Daikonshima in the middle of a lake in Matsue City, on the north-west coast of Japan. She was the third of four children. Her parents farmed their land. Mum often talked about their fruit orchard and...
The State Library of Western Australia (SLSW) has acquired a special collection of the business ledgers of Jiro Muramats, a Japanese businessman who lived in Darwin, Northern Territory and Cossack, Western Australia. During World War II, he was interned as an...
Nikkei Australia’s Dr Yuriko Nagata receives Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation 20246 November 2024
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