Andrew Hasegawa recently wrote about Dianne Jackson where he referenced a Sunday Herald Sun Weekend Magazine article entitled “Where Are They Now?” published on 10 December 1983. The article tells a story of love, marriage and separation of an Australian woman from...
Perhaps they are the least likely to be reunited with their original family, so we welcomed them into ours. 元の家族と再会する可能性が最も低いと思われるため、私たちの家族に迎え入れることにしました。
Untitled.Showa collection of photographs will be presented in Geelong, Victoria, where they originated from within Australia! Location: Geelong Library & Heritage Centre (The Dome) 51 Little Malop St, Geelong VIC 3220 Exhibition Dates: 16 July – end Aug The...
Mika Nishimura , broadcast producer and director of Artika International was born and raised in Kyoto While studying at Deakin University in Geelong in the early 1990s, Mika wrote this essay, Cultural Identity of Japanese Immigrants and their descendants in Geelong....
March 30th 2021 After meeting Dianne, I dropped by 21 Little Ryrie St and 60 Ryrie St, where the Hasegawa family lived and did business, only to find a dodgy massage parlour and a carpark. After that I visited my Aunty Lynette who was raised at 21 Little Ryrie St, and...
March 30th 2021 I met with Dianne in Geelong. She is the great granddaughter of George Taro Furuya who ran a laundry on Myer St in Geelong. We spent just over an hour talking, swapping stories, and she very graciously gave me copies of old newspaper cuttings. I gave...
March 27th 2021 As a follow up to the post on Geelong History Facebook page, I posted a photo of George Taro Furuya, Motoshiro Ito and my great grandfather, Setsutaro Hasegawa on a picnic, dated April 1930, somewhere near Geelong. It was also posted on Nikkei...
March 22nd 2021 I posted a post from Untitled.Showa on the Geelong History Facebook page and made mention about the upcoming exhibition in Geelong in July. It attracted quite a lot of attention and a comment from Deidrie Jackson who asked when it would take place....
The mystery of a collection of photos that originate in Japan must have belonged to a Japanese war bride who lived in the city of Geelong… 日本で撮影された写真集の謎は、ビクトリア州西部の豊かな牧草地の玄関口であるジーロング市に住んでいた日本人戦争花嫁のものだったのではないかと考えられる。
What would the outcome be if the processes of asking and answering these questions involved many people? そして、これらの疑問を 自分だけではなく多くの人が一緒に考えるとすると、そのプロセスや結果はどう変化するだろうか。