{"id":25804,"date":"2012-10-06T01:51:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T01:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25804"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:16:20","slug":"children-of-the-occupation-japans-untold-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25804","title":{"rendered":"Children of the Occupation: Japan&#8217;s Untold Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsouthbooks.com.au\/isbn\/9781742233314.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Children of the Occupation: Japan&#8217;s Untold Story<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsouthbooks.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">NewSouth Books<\/a> (American Edition coming soon from Rutgers University Press)<br \/>\nJuly 2012<br \/>\n352 pages<br \/>\n234 x 153mm<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781742233314<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenoftheoccupation.com\/About_Me.html\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Hamilton<\/a><\/strong>, Journalist and Author<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsouthbooks.com.au\/isbn\/9781742233314.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ms-newsouthbooks-com-au.s3.amazonaws.com\/WorkImage\/WorkEdition\/9781742233314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a beautifully written, deeply moving and well-researched account of the lives of mixed-race children of occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a>. 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">WWII<\/a>. It is a powerful narrative of loss, longing and reconnection, written by the ABC\u2019s long-time Tokyo correspondent, Walter Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenoftheoccupation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children of the Occupation: Japan&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,19,459,8,17,4405,20],"tags":[986,1793,12324,6742,969],"class_list":["post-25804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-canada","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-oceania","category-usa","tag-australia","tag-japan","tag-newsouth-books","tag-walter-hamilton","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42066,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25804\/revisions\/42066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}