Photos
Nihonjin-kai Clubhouse in Broome (courtesy of Broome Historical Museum)
Early settlers in Broome - taken by Yasukichi Murakami in 1929 (courtesy of Broome Historical Museum)
Members of Nihonjin-kai in Brisbane, 1939. Centre: Professor Seita of Queensland University (courtesy of Claude Tanaka)
Members of the Ueno Circus taken in the 1930s. Third from the left is the leader, Albert Ueno, who became leader of Compound B at Tatura (courtesy of Mr and Mrs Murayama)
City of Canterbury – prisoner exchange ship from Australia to Lourenco Marques, 1942 (courtesy of Shigeru Nakabayashi)
Kamakura Maru – prisoner exchange ship from Lourenco Marques to Japan, 1942 (courtesy of Shigeru Nakabayashi)
Children released early to attend boarding school, 1943. Rear right: Jack Tagaki. Rear left: Charley Takagi (courtesy of Jack Tagaki)
Views of entrance to No. 14 Camp at Loveday (courtesy of David Shaw)
Security gate to No. 14 Camp at Loveday (courtesy of David Shaw)
Japanese garden and shrine in Japanese compound at Loveday (courtesy of David Shaw)
Hand-made geta (wooden sandals) at entrance to sleeping hut in Japanese compound at Loveday (courtesy of David Shaw)
Internee making a basket from cane which internees planted themselves (courtesy of David Shaw)
Internees attending an inmate’s funeral at Loveday (AWM 64811)
Camp school at Tatura (courtesy of Shinji Kondo)
Female internees at camp clothing factory at Tatura (courtesy of Francis Sproat)
Japanese internees and their children on a picnic at Waranga Reservoir (courtesy of Francis Sproat)
Marriage of internees at Tatura, Bride: Yoshi Kanegae of Broome, Bridegroom: Masazo Nabeshima of N.E.I. (courtesy of Patrick Ahmat)
Internees at funeral, Tatura (courtesy of Francis Sproat)
The Koei Maru, a Japanese repatriation ship arriving at Port Melbourne to embark 2800 Japanese internees for the voyage home to Japan, 21 February 1946 (AWM 125592)
A Japanese woman and her three children aboard the Koei Maru
Marriage of former internees at the repatriates’ centre, Kanazawabunko in Japan, 1946. Bride: Haruko Hirako of Indonesia, Bridegroom: Kakichi Namba, a member of Ueno Circus (courtesy Haruko Namba)
Reunion of former internees with Jim Sullivan, a former guard officer at Tatura, January 1987 (photograph by Yuriko Nagata)