Prologue: celebrating Japan in Australia / Alan Rix
Japan in Australia, an introduction / David Chapman and Carol Hayes
Youthful first impressions: Tsurumi Kazuko and Shunsuke in Australia, 1937 / Tomoko Aoyama
Forging an Australian artistic modernity: how Japanese woodblock prints informed Margaret Preston's early paintings and prints / Penny Bailey
Japan-Australia friendship through bat and ball: the Yomiuri Giants' baseball tour of Australia in 1954 / Ai Kobayashi
Japan at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics / Morris Low
Japanese sleeping beauties abroad: Australian retellings of Kawabata Yasunari's fairy-tale novella / Lucy Fraser
The irrepressible magic of monkey: how a Japanese television drama depicting an ancient Chinese tale became compulsory after-school viewing in Australia / Rebecca Hausler
Nikkei Australian identity and the work of Mayu Kanamori / Timothy Kazuo Steains
Trans-asian engagement with Japan in/and Australia / Koichi Iwabuchi
The Australian literary scene and Murakami Haruki: Nobel Laureate heir apparent or marketing overhype? / Laura Emily Clark
Why introductory Japanese? An Australian case study / Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson
Mobility and children crossing borders / Ikuo Kawakami
Coda / Roger Pulvers
On the streets of our town / Vera Mackie.