Japanese

Australian connections with Japan intensified in the first decades of the twentieth century, when teaching of the Japanese language was first introduced to the University of Sydney and Fort Street High School. The National Library of Australia (NLA), the National Archives of Australia (NAA) and the Australian War Memorial have extensive holdings of Japanese sources relating to specific individuals seeking exemption under the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901; materials on Japanese in Northern Australia; diplomatic connections between Australia and Japan; sources created by early Japanese temporary settlers in Australia related to trade in products such as wool, silk and sugar; and documents related to WWII.

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Newspapers

Images

World War II

Japanese, English

24. Japanese cemetery, Broome, n.d. / unidentified (2009 4190)

State Library of New South Wales

World War I

Japanese

Australian postcards published in Japan

National Library of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Australians with business or other reasons for visiting Japan are taking a basic course in the spoken language

National Archives of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Arabic

Chinatown 1971 – Broome

Broome Historical Society & Museum

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, English

Chinese architectural style telephone box and street sign in five languages, Carnarvon Street, Broome

State Library of Western Australia

World War II

Japanese

Divers corner, Gardens Road Cemetery, Darwin, ca. 1945

National Library of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Education - State schools - Japanese language classes in many high schools throughout Australia

National Archives of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Education - State schools - Japanese language classes in many high schools throughout Australia

National Archives of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Education - State schools - Japanese language classes in many high schools throughout Australia

National Archives of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Education - Technical colleges - Japanese fairy tales being translated at Swinbourne Institute of Technology

National Archives of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Education - Technical colleges - Japanese language studies at Sydney Technical College

National Archives of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Education - Universities - Japanese woman establishes language course at University of Adelaide

National Archives of Australia

World War I

Japanese

Hatsuzo Murata headstone

Northern Territory Library

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Japan - A school in Australia for Japanese children

National Archives of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Japan - Japanese students study language training at Dickson College

National Archives of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Japan - Young Japanese woman welcomed on Australian goodwill tour

National Archives of Australia

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Japanese as a second language study in Australia

National Archives of Australia

World War I

Japanese

JAPANESE CEMETERY

Broome Historical Society & Museum, National Library of Australia

World War I

Japanese

Japanese Cemetery – Nishioka's Grave

Broome Historical Society & Museum

World War I

Japanese, English

JAPANESE GIRL

Broome Historical Society & Museum

World War II

Japanese

Japanese language lessons are very popular with the occupation troops. [picture]

State Library of Victoria

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Japanese language teacher enjoys work in Australian high schools

National Archives of Australia

World War I

Japanese

JAPANESE SCHOOL

Broome Historical Society & Museum

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Japanese week in Australian city

National Archives of Australia

World War II

Japanese

Map of New South Wales and Tasmania, in Japanese

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

World War II

Japanese

Members of the Australian Air Force learn Japanese in North Borneo [1]

Australian War Memorial

World War II

Japanese

Members of the Australian Air Force learn Japanese in North Borneo [2]

Australian War Memorial

National boundaries

Japanese

Monument commemorating the Japanese victims of the 1908 cyclone, Japanese Cemetery, Broome, Western Australia

State Library of Western Australia

World War I

Japanese

Nihon-jin oyobi Shina-jin to no jutakuchi zenkei [transparency] Whole picture of residential area of Japanese and Chinese etcetera

National Library of Australia

World War I

Japanese, English

Postcard - From Japan To Setsutaro Hasegawa

Museums Victoria Collections

National boundaries

Japanese, English

Postcard - From Western Australia To Setsutaro Hasegawa

Museums Victoria Collections

World War II

Japanese

Postcards WW2, 1943, 1944

Bendigo Military Museum

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Pte M. Conti of [illeg.] (N.S.W.) and Cpl Hatton of Melbourne, were in difficulties with their Japanese phrase book almost as soon as they stepped ashore in Kure ... [picture]

State Library of Victoria

Cold War (including Decolonisation)

Japanese

Sergeant C.B. Lander ... demonstrates that he can write as well as speak Japanese to Lance-Corporal J. Walker ... [picture]

State Library of Victoria

Settlement

Japanese

Shachū no dokubari : tantei shōsetsu

State Library of South Australia

World War II

Japanese

Sq Ldr M.A. WIADROWSKI chief instructor of Language School at Point Cook checks over the work of Cpl. C.L. FUNCH & Sgt. J.J. COTTER (NZ) on the Jap Text Books [picture]

State Library of Victoria

World War I

Japanese, English

TENNIS CLUB

Broome Historical Society & Museum

World War II

Japanese

ジヤヴア至フリーマントル = Jiyavua itari furīmantoru = Java to Fremantle

State Library of Western Australia

World War II

Japanese

ポートダーウィン爆撃 — Pōto Dāwin bakugeki — Bombing of Darwin

National Library of Australia

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