Australia’s shared history with Japan is very much dominated by the WWII and trade. Although the Japanese have been a part of Australian society since the late nineteenth century, they have never been considered a significant ethnic group with their own Australian story.

Kultur & Gesellschaft
Hindsight - Separate stories podcast Folgen
Separate stories: Hindsight is the only program on Australian radio devoted exclusively to social history. It offers new perspectives on well-known aspects of the past and brings to light those stories long-ignored on the public record. The memories of ordinary Australians are woven into complex, credible and satisfying documentaries. Hindsight is published every Sunday.
Folgen von Hindsight - Separate stories podcast
50 Folgen
-
Folge vom 06.02.2015From the pearlers to the bankers: the history of Japanese Australians
-
Folge vom 25.01.2015Still Lucky: 50 years in Donald Horne's Lucky CountryFifty years ago a small Penguin paperback, The Lucky Country, outsold all other books on Australia. The title was ironic. This program returns us to Donald Horne’s Australia of the early 1960s.
-
Folge vom 18.01.2015CastawayStories of shipwreck, rescue and some extraordinary friendships that developed in the 19th century between European castaways and their Indigenous rescuers along the Great Barrier Reef.
-
Folge vom 11.01.2015Adios to the Spanish ClubIn August 2013, the Spanish Club of Sydney closed its Liverpool Street doors for the last time. This is the story of how a migrant community becomes Australian, and what is left behind in the process.