A Japanese scholar studies indigenous people living in cities and First Nations people with Japanese backgrounds

"When you hear 'indigenous people in Australia', I think many Japanese will come up with an exotic image of them in Australian nature, like on a postcard. But I felt something not right about it, it's more than that," Dr Yuriko Yamanouchi, Associate professor at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies said.

Dr Yuriko Yamanouchi, Associate Professor at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, at Broome horse race in 2014. Credit: Yuriko Yamanouchi

Dr Yamanouchi is a cultural anthropologist and completed her doctoral degree at the University of Sydney in 2008. She chose indigenous people living in cities as her research theme for her degree.

Currently Dr Yamanouchi has been researching First Nations people of mixed indigenous and Japanese ancestry.

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