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Tomoko Yamada

Tomoko Yamada is a Japanese artist and designer based in Broome, Western Australia. She creates site-specific and site-responsive installations using hand-crafted fishing nets and threads. Her work communicates the past, present and future by drawing on memory and emotions to map humanity. Learn more at tomokoyamada.com. Tomoko is also a member of Nikkei Australia and involved in the global research project Past Wrongs, Future Choices.

Updated November 2024

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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?
The Tale of Two Tomokos

Nov. 4, 2024 • Tomoko Yamada

In Broome, Western Australia, where I live, many Japanese people have settled since the 1880s, including pearl shell divers, doctors, general merchandise store owners, inventors, photographers, laundry shops owners, financiers, taxi drivers, restaurateurs, boarding house operators, tombstone carvers, carpenters and boatbuilders. Up until WWII, the centre of the town was known as “Jap Town.” Traces of this Japanese history remain scattered throughout Broome, and second, third and fourth-generation Nikkei-jin (descendants) still live here. Today, Broome is known for its multicultural …

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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?
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