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...
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...
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...
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