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Japanese-Australians in the Post-war Thursday Island Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Yuriko Nagata
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From the late 19th century, a scattering of small Japanese communities gradually established themselves around the northern coast of Australia. These communities existed as ethnic minorities within already established communities of Europeans and indigenous Australians in towns such as Broome, Darwin and in the sugargrowing areas of northern Queensland. The largest of these communities were found on Thursday Island, in the Torres Strait, and Broome, in Western Australia. At the outbreak of World War II, Thursday Island was the largest Japanese community in the country.

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Queensland Review , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , November 1999 , pp. 30 - 44
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