Community Starters: Japanese

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Sakuragawa Rikinosuke (R) and Togawa Iwakichi as a seven year old boy, on the ladder Source: Supplied

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Australia prides itself on being a multicultural society - but it wasn't always that way. Each new culture that flourished here had to start with one adventurous individual or family who took the plunge and crossed the oceans to reach Australia. In this series, we're trying to find those first pioneers. Episode five tells us the story of Sakuragawa Rikinosuke, our candidate for the first Japanese person to ever call Australia home.

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