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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?
The Tale of Two Tomokos
In Broome, Western Australia, where I live, many Japanese people have settled since the 1880s, incl…
Tomoko Yamada • Nov. 4, 2024
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The First Recorded Japanese in Australia: Steve Dawson’s Family Story — Part 2
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Japan entered World War I in August 1914 on the side of the Entente Allies, and qui…
Steve Dawson • May 31, 2024
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The First Recorded Japanese in Australia: Steve Dawson’s Family Story — Part 1
It is a privilege to be able to write about my family’s ancestral Japanese roots, especially give…
Steve Dawson • May 30, 2024
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On Nikkei
Part 41 (part 2) Interview with Christine Piper, author with Japanese and Australian roots — Japanese-Australian
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Japanese Americans and Japanese in internment camps
-- In After Darkness, there ar…
Ryusuke Kawai • Dec. 29, 2023
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The Spaces In Between: Artist Elysha Rei's Intricate Hand-Cut Paper Art
While the sakura were in full bloom outside the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, inside, a differ…
Kelly Fleck • July 16, 2023
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Reflecting on the short film Whole and mixed Japanese identities
On Friday 18 November 2022, Dr Timothy Kazuo Steains and I held a film screening of the short fil…
Aoife Wilkinson • July 2, 2023
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Japanese Australian veterans and the legacy of anti-Asian racism
As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on our usual way of life (*article was originally written in April 2020), …
Timothy Kazuo Steains +1 • Nov. 9, 2021
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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities
Across Oceans
My parents met in Osaka when Mum was in her final year of school and Dad was a university student. …
Yuki Kawakami • Oct. 5, 2021
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Nikkei Chronicles #8—Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations
My Hero: Setsutaro Hasegawa
By the time I was born in the early 1960s, the long shadow of World War Two was starting to fade. T…
Andrew Hasegawa • May 23, 2019
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