Children of the occupation : Japan's untold story

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Label

Children of the occupation : Japan's untold story

Title remainder

Japan's untold story

Statement of responsibility

Walter Hamilton

Title variation

Japan's untold story

Creator

• Hamilton, Walter, 1952-

Subject

• Australian
• British Commonwealth Occupation Forces
• Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Japan
• Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952
• Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
• Australia -- Relations | Japan
• Racially mixed children -- Japan
• War brides
• White Australia policy
• World War, 1939-1945
• Military bases, American -- Japan -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

This is a beautifully written, deeply moving and well-researched account of the lives of mixed-race children of occupied Japan. The author artfully blends oral histories with an historical and political analysis of international race relations and immigration policy in North America and Australia, to highlight the little-known story of the thousands of children that resulted from the unions of Japanese women and Allied servicemen posted to Japan following WWII. It is a powerful narrative of loss, longing and reconnection, written by the ABC's long-time Tokyo correspondent, Walter Hamilton

Additional physical form

Also available online.

Dewey number

952.044

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography