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Informationen zum Autor WALTER HAMILTON is a journalist with four decades of experience working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Associated Press in Sydney, Canberra, London, Singapore, and Tokyo. He is the author of Serendipity City: Australia, Japan, and the Multifunction Polis. Klappentext Following World War II, the Allied Powers occupied Japan from 1945 to 1952, leaving thousands of children of Japanese mothers fathered by men from Australia, the United States, New Zealand, India, and Britain. These mixed-race offspring, and often their mothers, faced intense discrimination. Based on interviews with or research on 150 konketsuji—a now-taboo word for "mixed-blood" Japanese—journalist Walter Hamilton presents vivid first-person accounts of these adults as they remember their experiences of childhood loss. Inhaltsverzeichnis Karumi's story Butterfly and child War of purification Mitsuyoshi's story Conquering Kure Remaking Japanese women Mayumi's story Mixed-blood mythologies The Eurasian malaise George's story Occupational hazards Enemies in miniature Kiyotaka's story Plausible deniability Our mixed-bloods Kazumi's story The Kure project Half into whole Johnny's story Where are they now? A mixed future
