Tag: Walter Hamilton

  • Kaya Press is thrilled to announce the official publication of Hapa Japan: History Vol. 1 and Hapa Japan: History Vol. 2 edited by Duncan Ryūken Williams.

  • The history and experiences of mixed-race Japan have long remained almost invisible in a country that believes in its own myths of homogeneity, despite a history that extends backwards to the 8th-century emperor Kammu Tenno (who was part Korean) through to Japan’s first female physician (part German) during the 19th century, and forward to the…

  • Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story by Walter Hamilton (review) The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 2014 pages 565-567 DOI: 10.1353/hcy.2014.0047 Owen Griffiths Hamilton, Walter, Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story (Sydney: NewSouth Books, 2012) What if you felt like you didn’t belong to the…

  • Children of the Occupation Radio National Big Ideals Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2013-03-11 For a decade following the end of the Second World War, foreign troops occupied Japan.  During that time, thousands of mixed race children were born, the result of relationships between the occupying servicemen – Australians, Americans, Brits – and Japanese women.  What became…

  • Children of the Occupation NewSouth Publishing 2012-07-01 Walter Hamilton, Journalist and Author Towards the end of an eventful life, George Budworth, who served with the Australian Army in Japan after the war, wrote an account describing the first time he saw his son, Peter. It was not in a hospital maternity ward but on the…

  • Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story NewSouth Books (American Edition coming soon from Rutgers University Press) July 2012 352 pages 234 x 153mm Paperback ISBN: 9781742233314 Walter Hamilton, Journalist and Author 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…

  • Living as Others in Japan Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2011 Biennial Conference Internationalising Japan: Sport, Culture and Education University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham Street Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia 2011-07-04 through 2011-07-07 Wednesday, 2011-07-06, 11:00-12:30 AEDT (Local Time) Room 102 This panel will present two historical papers about individuals whose lives were…