Keiko Tamura’s biography
Keiko Tamura was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. After graduating in
English from Kobe College, she moved to Canberra to carry out her post-graduate
studies in anthropology. She was awarded a doctorate from the Australian
National University in 2000 with a thesis titled, ‘Border Crossings:
Japanese War Brides and Their Selfhood.’ As well as working as a
freelance interpreter, she joined the staff of the Australian War Memorial
from 1997 to 1998 and held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Research School
of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University from
2000 to 2001. She was a 2002 Harold White Fellow at the National Library
of Australia where she carried out research on westerners in Japan based
on the Harold Williams Collection. Currently, she is a senior research
officer in the Australia–Japan Research Project at the Australian
War Memorial and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University.
Her academic interests cover a wide area including Aboriginal Australia,
Australia–Japan relations, migration and women’s experiences
of war.
Dr Tamura’s book Michi’s Memories: A Story of a Japanese
War Bride was published in Canberra by Pandanus Books in 2001.
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