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 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...
This is a recording of a talk given by Nikkei Australia’s founding member Dr Keiko Tamura and Chairperson Elysha Rei about Japanese ‘war brides’ at the Queensland State Archives in Brisbane on 25 August 2023. The event was jointly hosted by the...
By Joanna Boese My mother, Naomi Boese (née Taguchi) grew up in Tsuyama, Okayama-ken, Japan. Her mother was a housewife and her father was a postal official. Mum was the youngest of four children; the eldest was a girl, and two boys followed. Mum completed high school...
By Jacqueline Yoshioka-Braid I descend from a long line of samurai families. I am the fifth of six children born to my parents, Taeko Yoshioka and Noel Braid. My parents met during the Allied Occupation of Japan. Dad was on R and R in Japan during his tour of duty in...
By Elysha Rei 明けておめでとございます！Happy New Year! After my eldest son Kairo just finished his year of the Ox, and I am entering the year of the Tiger for 2022, the both of us decided to make our best version of Osechi Ryori. We researched the various dishes online, and...
Nikkei Australia’s Dr Yuriko Nagata receives Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation 20246 November 2024
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