Why anthropologist Yuriko Yamanouchi turned her attention to Indigenous people in urban Australia

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

Anthropologist Dr Yuriko Yamanouchi challenged common Japanese perceptions of Australia's Indigenous peoples through her research on urban First Nations communities, during her time at the University of Sydney.

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