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 Hugh de Ferranti has co-edited a collection of essays about the music of minorities living in Japan. Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Coexistence, Japan Edited by Hugh de Ferranti, Masaya Shishikura and Michiyo Yoneno-ReyesWith...
A biography of Ethel May Punshon, known as Monte Punshon – A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia 1882-1989 – by Tessa Morris-Suzuki has been published by Melbourne University Press. Born in 1882 and living until she was 106, Monte was a known as a trailblazer...
This year, the town of Cowra in NSW commemorates 80 years since the Cowra Breakout, when more than 1000 Japanese prisoners of war broke out of the POW camp on the outskirts of Cowra, resulting in more than 240 deaths. To coincide with this 80th anniversary, author Dr...
Nikkei Australia founding member Dr Yuriko Nagata has recently donated to the National Film and Sound Archive the original treatment for the unrealised film After Tatura by the late filmmaker Solrun Hoaas. The documentary was about the lives of Japanese civilians...
Here are two publications by Nikkei Australia member Dr Yuriko Yamanouchi based on her ongoing work with the descendants of Japanese migrants in Broome, Western Australia. This is a statement by Dr Yamanouchi about her research: ‘I obtained permission from my...
Nikkei Australia’s Dr Yuriko Nagata receives Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation 20246 November 2024
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