Dr. Yuriko Nagata conducts an interview with a former pearl diver Nobuhide Arakawa in Okinawa in 2016 for her research on the history of Japanese-Australians. Source: Yuriko Nagata
During the WWII, Japanese internment camps were set up in the US, Canada, and Australia. Compared to the ones in North America, the history of Japanese civilian internment in Australia is not as widely known.
Dr. Yuriko Nagata, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, will hold an online presentation as one of the guest speakers at a webinar titled "Identity & Internment: The Japanese-Australian experience",and talk about the history and background of what happened in Australia.
Dr. Nagata will be joined by a Japanese-Australian author Dr. Christine Piper and Mr. Andrew Hasegawa. Each of them will give a presentation at the webinar. All of the three are members of Nikkei Australia, a research group formed by people who are interested in the Japanese diaspora in Australia.
Dr. Piper, a Japanese Australian herself, will talk about the emotional aspects of Japanese Australians who got sent to the camps even they were born in Australia. Mr. Hasegawa, a forth generation Japanese Australian will talk about the influence of the internment on his family, and how their identity transformed throughout five generations.
In the audio, Dr. Nagata talks about the upcoming webinar and how she started researching the history of Japanese internment in Australia - 35 years ago.
Dr. Yuriko Nagata will hold a presentation at a webinar titled Identity & Internment: The Japanese-Australian experience Source: Yuriko Nagata
